Re: City ditched plan to run open-data competition for new traffic app Paid tens of thousands in sole-sourced deal to Toronto company instead
Posted by
Stéphane Guidoin on
Nov 27, 2013; 3:07am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/City-ditched-plan-to-run-open-data-competition-for-new-traffic-app-Paid-tens-of-thousands-in-sole-sod-tp6345p6346.html
To my knowledge 511.ca has always been
a placeholder, nothing new here.
I have to say that the initial idea was pretty cool. I think that
this case has been played several times in other cities. We would
like to see hackathons and competition jump to another level and
this kind of idea could really help. Hopefully some similar idea
will finally make it.
Steph
Le 2013-11-26 21:49, Tracey P. Lauriault a écrit :
"And second, a
contract with a company that has some permanence guarantees
ongoing support. An amateur programmer who’s really good at
programming could land a time-consuming job or move away or
just lose interest. “And then what do we have? We have
nothing,” Tierney said."
And what was wrong with 511.ca?
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