NYC Big Apps Competition
October 7th, 2009 · Comments
Last night at the New York Tech Meetup, the Deputy Mayor announced that the City of New York is sponsoring the NYC Big Apps competition.
The competition will reward developers for creating the most useful, inventive, appealing, effective, and commercially viable applications for delivering information from the NYC.gov Data Mine to interested users.
The city is offering $20,000 in prizes for various categorizes. In addition, entrants will have the chance to get in front of the A List of New York technology. The judges include our own Dawn Barber as well as:
- John Borthwick (Betaworks)
- Jason Calacanis (Mahalo)nyc
- Paul Cosgrave (NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications)*
- Esther Dyson (EDVentures)
- Lawrence Lenihan (FirstMark Capital)
- Kevin Ryan (Gilt Groupe)
- Danny Schultz (DFJ Gotham Ventures)
- Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures)
Tags: Danny Schultz·Dawn Barber·Esther Dyson·Fred Wilson·Jason Calacanis·John Borthwick·Kevin Ryan·Lawrence Lenihan·nyc big apps·nyc.gov data mine·Paul Cosgrave
