Government calls on coders to churn out apps using open data; Vancouver Sun, 1/22/14

Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun; Government calls on coders to churn out apps using open data:

Canada's federal government has an abundance of data, and is asking Canadian software programmers and innovators to figure out how to best use it...

In the first country wide open-data hackathon, dubbed CODE - Canadian Open Data Experience - Ottawa is calling on the nation's computing and design talent to use the government's open data to create apps that will help Canadians...

The 48-hour hackathon starts at 5 p.m. on Feb. 28 and ends at 5 p.m. on March 2. Participants can attend the CODE VIP Hub in Toronto on Feb. 28, or take part virtually - from homes, schools, universities and coffee shops across Canada. The government's Open Data portal was launched last year at data.gc.ca.