Perks and Prizes of Joining the Civic Data Challenge
As a participant, you will have the chance to get your work in front of great judges including:
- Vivek Kundra, Executive Vice President, of Emerging Markets of Salesforce.com
- Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist and Craigconnects
- Jake Porway, Founder and Executive Director of DataKind
- Leslie Bradshaw, Chief Operating Officer of Guide
- Beth Kanter, Speaker, Author, Trainer, and Blogger
- Ryan Resella, Senior Engineer at Upworthy
- Trina Chiasson, Co-founder and CEO of InfoActive
- James Siegal, Executive Vice President and chief Operating Officer of KaBOOM!
- Shiblee Hasa, UI & Visualization Design at Amazon
- Drew Skau, Visualization Architect at Visually
In addition to the opportunity to make a real impact, all Civic Data Challenge participants will have access to exciting opportunities such as:
- Free Pro Passes to DataWeek 2013 Conference and Expo in San Francisco*
- A generous amount of service credits from Iron.io
- One Lifeline – a chance to ask our group of amazing Advisors for feedback on your entry
Finalists will be competing for prizes to include:
- A main stage speaking engagement at DataWeek 2013 Conference and Expo, Pro Passes included
- Conference passes to the 2013 National Conference on Citizenship in Washington, DC, and a speaking engagement at the Conference’s Open Data and Technology Learning Summit
- Promotion by Visual.ly as well as the chance to become a qualified Visual.ly Marketplace designer
- 3 months of SenGrid’s Bronze package
- Continued use of Iron.io service credits through March 2014
- Cool gadgets including GoPro Hero2 and Raspberry Pi Model B
- And $15,000 in cash prizes brought to us by our partners at Knight Foundation
*Available on a first-come-first-served basis to every team that submits an entry meeting the basic requirements as outlined in the Civic Challenge Rubric.
Read the full blog post here: http://www.civicdatachallenge.com/blog/post/one-month-left-to-join-the-civic-data-challenge