Federal Government Challenges Post-Safety Datapalooza

At last month’s White House Safety Datapalooza, several federal agencies issued challenges to civic minded developers to help the federal government solve real world problems ranging from health care, public safety, education, and more.

Many of the previous winners of these challenges have been civic startups who have leveraged open data released on data.gov to help find creative ways to solve problems.

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Sketchnotes at the Public Data Safetypalooa, courtesy @anadiazhernandz

Here’s a list of each challenge along with data resources and some examples of apps that work to solve similar problems. Try to win!

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