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GovLoop has teamed up with Code for America to offer $500 scholarships to 4 top innovators so they can attend CityCamp on January 23-24, 2010.

Here’s how it will work:

1. From January 4 – 8, please SUBMIT and VOTE on the top municipal innovative projects across the United States.

2. Top 4 people with most votes will each receive $500 for event travel.

3. Eligible candidates will be current U.S. public servants employees.

What is the most innovative municipal project in the U.S.?

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  1. CitySourced

    CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement tool. CitySourced provides a free, simple, and intuitive tool empowering citizens to identify civil issues (potholes, graffiti, trash, snow removal, etc.) and report them to city hall for quick resolution; an opportunity for government to use technology to save money and improve accountability to those they govern; and a positive, collaborative platform for real action. Our platform is called CitySourced, as it empowers everyday citizens to use their smart phones to make their cities a better place. CitySourced is powered by FreedomSpeaks, the leader in interactive civic engagement.

    1,146 votes
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  2. SeeClickFix

    SeeClickFix is a website and mobile app that allows citizens to report and document non-emergency issues to communicate them to those accountable for the public space. Issues that are reported are recorded on a map for everyone to see, vote on, discuss and resolve. We allow citizens to adopt web technology for their town immediately: collaboration and transparency in a box. Don't wait for others - get started.

    Media coverage:

    -New York Times Cover of Business Section (media and journalism angle)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/business/media/04click.html

    -CNN.com Cover Article (government 2.0 angle)
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/28/government.web.apps/

    -Apps Machine (blog that reviews iPhone apps that takes a citizen…

    1,061 votes
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  3. Graffiti Tracker

    Graffiti Tracker offers graffiti tracking and analysis services for cities across the United States and Canada. Graffiti Tracker clients use GPS-enabled cameras to capture images of graffiti vandalism prior to removal and then upload the images to our web-based system for analysis. Police departments use the data to assist them in catching and prosecuting vandals, which leads to a reduction in overall graffiti and increased recovery of restitution by the cities. The Graffiti Tracker system offers interactive mapping capabilities, generates reports for police departments and district attorney's offices and links known graffiti vandals to multiple incidents.

    359 votes
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  4. dc.gov Data Catalog (and Visualizations)

    One of the first open government data catalogs featuring more than 410 datasets (including crime, 311, building permits) and new visualization tools to view/analyze the data.

    158 votes
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  5. OpenMinneapolis.org

    OpenMinneapolis.org will open municipal government, encourage clean and information-based elections, track issues and inspire community engagement and public participation in Minneapolis.

    111 votes
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  6. Manor Labs - manorlabs.org

    Manor Labs is an open innovation platform designed to allow you to help us solve problems that plague our local government agency. This is also a place for you to submit ideas on how we can do things better.

    192 votes
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  7. Open311

    Open311 is a publicly viewable and participatory way of managing 311 (the municipal non-emergency service - like a cross between 411 and 911). Some existing examples of this are FixMyStreet in the UK, Verbeterdebuurt in the Netherlands, plus SeeClickFix, CitySourced, D.C. 311, and others in the U.S.. Currently there is an effort underway to create a standard Open311 API so that 311 apps can be interoperable between cities and can integrate with a wide range of CRMs and infrastructures. The cities currently most active in this pursuit are San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Boston. SeeClickFix and other cities and entities…

    41 votes
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  8. CivicDB

    The goal of our community is to develop a free, open source platform to help improve public access to raw government data in machine readable formats. Imagine getting help on choosing your next home by viewing crime data and school stats on a map. Or seeing restaurant ratings and violations based on your GPS location. All of this takes government data. CivicDB helps government organizations liberate data in multiple open formats like CSV, XML, RESTful web services by providing a full end-to-end solution. CivicDB allows data consumers like journalists and developers the ability to explore, find and download datasets; giving…

    94 votes
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  9. DataSF

    DataSF is a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. Our goal in releasing this site is:
    (1) improve access to data
    (2) help our community create innovative apps
    (3) understand what datasets you'd like to see
    (4) get feedback on the quality of our datasets.

    http://www.datasf.org/

    30 votes
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  10. Apps for Democracy 2 - appsfordemocracy.org

    Apps for Democracy 2 Community Edition was a contest that invited residents and software developers to compete for cash prizes for ways to improve city service requests. The winner was Open 311 DC

    38 votes
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  11. Tell Arvada - mobile data and CRM reporting

    The City is integrating its CRM application with social media tools, I-phones and other mobile devices to allow citizens to get information and report issues anywhere in the City. The system is GPS based and will help to shorten the repair cycle for potholes, street light outages and code enforcement to name a few.

    25 votes
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  12. toronto.ca/open

    The City of Toronto's official data set catalogue - beta version. Access City data, get information about City data and the City's OpenTO initiative and give us feedback.

    The City of Toronto is committed to open, accessible and transparent government.

    33 votes
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  13. NYC Big Apps

    A software application challenge in keeping with New York City's drive to become more transparent, accessible, and accountable

    29 votes
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  14. Levelland Live-Rural Economic Development Tool

    A section of the Levelland Econmic Development Corporations web site designed to be a catalysts for economic growth through social collaboration

    14 votes
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  15. Census 2010

    Washington Technology: "Census Count Creates Opportunity" Cloud based software is making the US Census even more efficient!
    http://www.acumensolutions.com/press_room/docs/WashingtonTechnology-Census_Count%20_Creates%20_Oppurtunity.pdf

    9 votes
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  16. Envistion San Jose 2040 - http://www.sanjoseca.gov/planning/gp_update/

    With the help of Charlotte, NC based nonprofit, Wikiplanning, the city of San Jose, CA launched Envision San Jose 2040, a website designed to collect ideas from residents and use them to guide future urban development. This collaborative effort was designed to increase public participation beyond the groups of residents that usually attend more conventional community planning sessions. The online meeting began on August 1st, 2009 and will end on October 31st, 2009.

    10 votes
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  17. San Francisco DEM's Preparedness Movement Comm Strategy and branded&unbranded social media approach

    San Francisco DEM's Preparedness Movement Comm Strategy and branded&unbranded social media approach

    9 votes
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  18. City of Santa Cruz - santacruz.uservoice.com

    City of Santa Cruz polls the citizens for ideas on improving the budget situation and making their city better.

    15 votes
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  19. Wistowns

    Wistowns.com is a new project to develop a software as a service system for web sites for townships. The content and data from these sites is aggregated into a separate web site that can be used to build mashups and re-purpose the data in many ways.

    This system is currently being prototyped in Wisconsin, and is in the second round of judging for the Knight News Challenge.

    22 votes
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