The deadline to participate in the fourth edition of the Basque open data competitions is open
The Basque Government, with the support of the Provincial Councils of Alava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, and the city councils of Bilbao, Donostia-San Sebastian and Vitoria-Gasteiz, is organising the fourth edition of the Open Data Ideas and Applications Awards. These competitions aim to reward the best ideas and applications/services created from the datasets available in one of the following open data catalogues of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country:
- Open Data Euskadi
- Araba Irekia
- Gipuzkoa Irekia
- Bilbao Open Data
- Open Data Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Datos Donostia-San Sebastián City Council Open Data
- Open Data Bizkaia
The ultimate goal of the awards is to promote open data culture and the reuse of open public data in the region.
What is the difference between the competitions?
There are two open competitions:
Ideas Competition
What is it about?
This competition is aimed at people who want to submit an original idea to create any kind of service, study, visualisation, web or mobile application generated from open data from the above-mentioned portals. It will only be necessary to explain the idea in a document and attach it when registering.
Who is it aimed at?
Students, professionals or companies willing to contribute ideas that meet the requirements indicated in the rules. Any natural or legal person can participate, except administrations and public entities, individually or in teams.
Prizes:
A total of €8,000 will be distributed, divided as follows:
- First prize: 5.000 €.
- Second prize: 3.000 €.
More information here.
Application competition
What is it about?
The competition consists of presenting a service, study, visualisation, web or mobile application, using datasets from the specified data catalogues. The solution must be accessible to all citizens via the web through a URL.
In this case, you must send the URL of the product and a document explaining the project.
Who is it aimed at?
The applications competition is designed for developers or computer programmers as well as for anyone with technical knowledge capable of creating a product that meets the requirements indicated in the rules.
As in the previous case, any natural or legal person can participate, except administrations and public entities, individually or through teams.
Prizes:
Se repartirán 18.000 € en total, divididos de la siguiente manera:
- First prize: 10.000 €
- Second prize: 8.000 €
More information here.
How is the winner chosen?
In both competitions, a jury will evaluate each project with a score from 0 to 20, based on criteria such as public and social value, economic value, innovative character or usefulness, among others.
¿Cómo puedo participar?
The registration period for both competitions begins on 7 July, once the call for entries has been published in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country. The registration period will remain open for 20 working days, until 3 August.
In order to participate, it is necessary to fill in the registration form. The procedures following the submission of the application form will be carried out through the "My folder" section of the Basque Government's electronic headquarters.
If you have any queries, you can contact the organisation via this link.
Come on and participate!
