Over the past week I’ve been lucky enough to meet AppChallenge community members in Manchester and London at our #EULife Meetup series. It was great to meet people who are passionate about open data. I wish we had been able …
In this short interview Ralph Cochrane explains what AppChallenge do and why the #EULife AppChallenge is important. A passionate supporter of Open Data, Ralph has been crowdsourcing innovation for aid agencies, governments and brands since 2007. He’s probably the only …
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Louise Corti is our UK Data Service supervisor for the #EULife AppChallenge. She’s a data science expert and an Associate Director at the UK Data Service. We asked her why Open Data was so important for the future of the …
John Shepherdson leads the UK Data Service technical infrastructure team. They are responsible for running the servers that provide the first UK Data Service Open Data API which is the foundation of the #EULife AppChallenge. We talk to him about …
We’re trying to make our #EULife AppChallenge developer contest as easy to enter as possible so we’ve created some open data video tutorials. In this video we show you how to register and get your API Key for the UK …
UK Data Service announces £15,000 #EULife Open Data AppChallenge London: The UK Data Service and AppChallenge.net announce the launch of a developer contest using open data about the Quality of Life of European citizens. With a prize fund of £15,000 …
We’re making the Career Advisor App by Tomasz Florczak available for download, free of charge. Available only for Android, the app uses open data from LMI for All (Labour Market Information) to compare careers based on geographical area. It’s a …
AppChallenge and the UK Data Service have selected the European Quality of Life Survey from Dublin based Eurofound as the dataset of choice to run their Open Data App Challenge. The EQLS survey takes places across Europe, including candidate countries …
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Back in October 2014, we were awarded innovation funding from the ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) to work with the UK Data Service and open up a maximum of three datasets for public use. The second phase is to run an AppChallenge that encourages developers …
The UKCES and AppChallenge are pleased to announce the #Careerhack AppChallenge winners. The developer contest was organised to showcase the Labour Market Information for All (LMI for All) Open Data provided by the UK Commission for Employment & Skills. A total …