Info 202 Fall 2011

The recent reading and discussion about e-government piqued my curiosity about current initiatives. According to a 24August2011 blog post from Mashable.com, the EPA has put forth a challenge to the public to build apps that use environmental data collected by the EPA and other government agencies that address one or more of the following categories:

• Taking Action on Climate Change
• Improving Air Quality
• Assuring the Safety of Chemicals
• Cleaning Up Our Communities
• Protecting America’s Waters
• Expanding the Conversation on Environmentalism and Working for Environmental Justice
• Building Strong State and Tribal Partnerships

The EPA website has a list of apps that have already been built (http://www.epa.gov/developer/existingapps.html) as well as 96 current ideas for apps that could be built: http://www.epa.gov/developer/ideasforapps.html and datasets (http://www.epa.gov/developer/datasets.html). Project ideas anyone?

Check out the mashable.com article here: http://mashable.com/2011/08/24/epa-app-challenge/