The panel of Startup Weekend e-Government DC judges included:
Aneesh Chopra @aneeshchopra – Senior Advisor at The Advisory Board and former United States Chief Technology OfficerMark Headd @mheadd – Director of Government Relations at Code for AmericaTom Lee @tjl – Director of Sunlight Labs (Note: he has named a panda)Dan Kasun @dankasun – Senior Director of Microsoft’s US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism (Note: also a closet cartoonist)
Startups who presented were:
LitheLaw – legal decision support softwareFoodSpotter – an app that presented graphical nutrition labels from public (USDA) data sets in order to solve problems such as obesity and “food dead zones” (areas where there are no grocery stores)Dolphin – gamification of classroom learning; to be integrated into outside gamesBusiness One-Stop – step-by-step solution to incorporating a business in DC; think TurboTax for starting a business (similar to LegalZoom)Deedsly – creating and nurturing communities through meaningful volunteeringGS Agility (@GSAgility) – fixing the government procurement process by enabling vendors and contractors to provide services using government purchasing cardsPubGov.Us – bringing communities together to solve problems; like Digg plus Kickstarter for community projectsOasis Energy – solving energy creation and distribution in developing nations and villagesShow “Me” the Development Money – visualization of public (World Bank) data related to funding and investment in infrastructurePiNEAPPLE – delivering weekly nutritional fresh food to corner stores in poor neighborhoods as determined by USDA dataCivit – connecting citizens with govt and corporations to get local civic work doneN-1-1 – an iPhone app that will notify a network of nearby off-duty first responders, in addition to notifying important phone contacts and calling 911 in times of an emergencyPhot-O-Bama – a hilarious meme app that photoshops Obama into your photos (joke, but maybe it’ll become a real app soon?)
— D. Keith Casey, Jr. (@CaseySoftware) June 17, 2012 Huge congratulations to: — Stephen Nguyen (@Stephenitis) June 17, 2012 1st place – GS Agility (@GSAgility)2nd place – PiNEAPPLE (@PineappleFood)3rd place – Business One-Stop We hope to see these startups, as well as the other Startup Weekend participants, grow into government-focused successes! PS: I was only able to make it to the last day of Startup Weekend e-Government DC, but here is a great video of author and Deloitte consultant Bill Eggers talking about innovative startups and the public sector.
