Take part in our research and help shape our competition

[Open Kent]

As part or our local open data initiative www.openkent.org.uk, working
with 14 public service partners across the county to encourage them to
open up data, we're working with Kent Business School who are carrying
out research on how councils can support developers to develop apps
using their open data. It would be great to get your insights on how
this has worked for you.

They’re very interested to hear about your development of smart phone
apps and your views about using open data provided by public sector
agencies.Please note your answers will be anonymised.

Just to let you know how your answers and responses will be used.
Following analysis of the survey, the student will carry out face to
face or telephone interviews of entrepreneurs. This will then help the
development of recommendations for councils to better support
entrepreneurs/developers using open data.

This initial questionnaire should take no more than 2 minutes. Please
click on the link here http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8LM2G9W to start
the survey. The deadline for responses is 10th August. Any queries,
let us know!

Help shape our competition

We're also launching a competition to invite the public to come up
with ideas on how to make their area a better place to live, work &
play using technology. This builds on the work we’ve done with
students & entrepreneurs.

When we launch, there will be the opportunity for people to come up
with ideas online for a month and develop them at a workshop. We will
then work with people with the skills to develop ways to turn people's
ideas into digital tools and then invite service users back to test
them to make sure they work for them.

But before we launch this competition, we're keen to engage with
people (not just in Kent, but in places like San Diego too!) to see
what involvement you’d like to have in developing prototypes or
partner with us to host a joint one.

Look forward to your feedback!

See http://www.openkent.org.uk/index.php/blog/crowdsourcing-a-competition/
for more information