April 30, 2012 by Christopher New
Des Moines An application that uses public data in an effort to make parks safer emerged Sunday as the winner of the inaugural OpenIowa at StartupCity Des Moines. SuperRanger, an app created by the team of Drew Maifeld, Yas Kuraishi, Melissa Burkheimer and Bethany Wilcoxon, took took home first place and a $500 prize at the conclusion of OpenIowa, a three-day event put on by StartupIowa. … read more
April 29, 2012 by Christopher New
Des Moines The inaugural OpenIowa is in its homestretch at Startup City Des Moines. The three-day event, sponsored by StartupIowa, is empowering entrepreneurs, developers and designers to utilize a continually-growing set of government databases to create new ways for citizens to access that information. Close to 30 participants signed up for the event, which began on Friday evening and concludes this evening. Participants were tasked … read more
April 26, 2012 by Guest Contributor
Des Moines Ready for a challenge? StartupIowa is daring developers, designers and data junkies to turn public data sets into something useful at its first OpenIowa event. The code-a-thon is similar to other open-data events sprouting up around the country, like the recent Hack Omaha. Similar to Startup Weekend, OpenIowa challenges attendees to launch a product in one weekend using the vast … read more
April 5, 2012 by Michael Stacy
StartupIowa is ready to usher in the open data movement in Iowa. The organization today announced the inaugural OpenIowa competition, which will be held April 27-29. … read more
Through August 22, help us decide the winners of our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards, which will recognize 12
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Winners will be announced live on stage at
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