Apps4Gaps is an All-Ireland competition aimed at encouraging young people to develop ideas and create applications that will provide innovative and fresh ways of exploiting the Open Data freely available from the Census 2011 that could benefit society in such areas as transport, housing, planning, education, communications and health.
It is open to primary, secondary and third level students across the country, who are encouraged to work in teams; learn or increase their skills in computer science and be challenged to create technologies such as mobile apps.
Insight, the Centre for Data Analytics, has partnered with the Central Statistics Office, NUI Galway and Smart Futures/SFI Discover to launch the competition, which is offering €5,000-worth of cash prizes and the chance to win the Alicia Boole Stott Medal.
Individuals and teams of up to three participants can enter by either submitting an idea for an app into the ‘Concept Entry’ category or by creating and submitting a fully developed app into the ‘Working App’ category using data from Census 2011.
Closing dates
The closing date to register is 31 January 2014 and submissions for both categories must be in by 5pm, 11 April 2014.
Students are advised to visit the competition website for a full list of rules, where they can also register and view datasets and examples of civic apps that can be created from open data.
Check out a Facebook video overview of the competition or follow @apps4gapsie on Twitter for updates.
