Ideas for projects on open data and the next hackathons and competitions that you can still catch

You probably know what’s going on now, it’s coming to an end and many open data competitions are beginning, and many hold hackathons.

For example, Yandex Hackathon will be held tomorrow or the day after tomorrow and it’s not too late to register, our friends in St. Petersburg will hold their Hackathon on October 5-6 .

Hackathons are a great format to get to know the topic, try yourself and do something simple and interesting. At the hackathon, however, it is rarely possible to make a complex product and even find the possibility of monetization. If you are doing something big or want to do it, we will extend our Apps4Russia contest until October 1 and really look forward to your applications.

Ideas

In the meantime, in order to slightly facilitate the search for ideas and, possibly, encourage me to think about my own ideas on open data, I prepared a small selection of what we collected.

1. Games and deputies

   
   Game Hot or Not for deputies. We take the list of deputies from the API - api.duma.gov.ru - a photo from duma.gov.ru and run the twist with comparisons. We run hundreds of website visitors and get interesting statistics.
   Ideal - a widget for implementation in media sites.
   
   

2. Water quality monitoring

   
   Take data on water quality in Moscow by region and make an application for a mobile phone showing the quality of water in the area. The data is ready and is here - http://hubofdata.ru/dataset/moswaterquality-2013
   
   

3. Russia in the world

   
   Take the World Bank data on Russia and visualize them visually - for example, in the format of the “dashboard” or in comparison with other countries or by year. Data can be taken here - http://data.worldbank.org/country/russian-federation
   
   

4. Clear budget

   
   Take the code http://theopenbudget.org/ and visualize the budget of your area or city. Budgets are published on their official sites.
   
   

5. Monuments in your pocket

   
   Take data on parks and cultural sites of your city / region and make an application for Android, iPad, iPhone or Windows Phone. Add there the possibility of feedback and the service “Find the nearest monument”.
   
   

6. Civil Grant Control

   
   Take the database of recipients of grants from the public chamber here - http://hubofdata.ru/dataset/oprf-grants-winners-2013 , with the help of several volunteers collect data on organizations - is there a website, is there public reporting for past years and a rating operators on transparency of financing organizations.
   
   There is a site - +1 point
   There is a public report - +1 point
   There are all public financial reports - +3 points
   There is a report of the organization in the register of NGOs of the Ministry of Justice - +3 points
   and so on.
   
   If it’s difficult to do for all organizations, you can do, for starters, the 20 largest grant recipients for each of the operators
   
   

7. Search for pharmacies and hospitals

   
   Take data on hospitals and pharmacies, in Moscow there is data.mos.ru and make a very simple service to find the nearest pharmacy and hospital phone numbers (for example, if a relative was taken to a hospital). At a more advanced level - do filters for pharmacies working around the clock. It is possible as a site, it is possible as a mobile application
   
   

8. Lazy deputies

   
   Based on open data and the State Duma’s API, make a rating of the most lazy deputies - those who have not submitted a single bill during their work - http://api.duma.gov.ru/
   
   

9. City Control Panel

   
   For example, how it is done here http://citydashboard.org/london/
   Not necessarily immediately in real time, but so as to regularly update. To do this, you can collect data for your city - from open data portals or from other sources. Decide to do it - tell you where to get them.
   

And those ideas that were earlier

This, of course, is far from all. We have collected many ideas and continue to collect them.

• Ideas collected for Apps4Russia 2013
• The ideas that we collected in 2012 here are not only open data, but also crowdsourcing and many other interesting projects
• Apps4Ottawa contest apps from Ottawa, Canada - lots of fun
• Apps created as part of the Apps4Development contest

And a huge number of applications created at various competitions on open data all over the world. It is not possible to list them all at a reasonable time, so just stop by.

Where to find the data?

There is a lot of open data, it is impossible to list everything

• hubofdata.ru - our open data hub
• ar.gov.ru is an aggregator of official data on the website of the administrative reform (Ministry of Economic Development of Russia)
• data.mos.ru - Moscow open data portal
• krd.ru/opendata - Krasnodar
• data.ulgov.ru - Ulyanovsk region

As well as world data where there is information about Russia:

• datahub.io - Open Knowledge Foundation open data portal
• data.worldbank.org - World Bank Open Data Portal
• data.un.org - UN open data

Interesting APIs:

• api.yandex.ru - Yandex API (Maps, Speller and much more)
• programmableweb.com - a huge catalog of API on various topics
• mashape.com - a large hub API where you can publish and something your own
• developers.google.com/products - Google APIs (maps, charts, and more)

Many of the applications and ideas are quite suitable for participating in Apps4Russia, and many others for participating in hackathons.

If there are any questions where to find the data - address them to me. I will either answer right away, or try to find out where they can be.