The Annual GovFresh awards for civic technology were announced today, and I’m proud to announce that a couple of Azavea projects (and several other Philadelphia efforts) were among the recipients. The awards (skipping the unrelated ones) included:
- City of the Year: Runners-up (tie): Chicago, Philadelphia
- Best Government/Citizen Collaboration: OpenDataPhilly (yeah!)
- Best Use of Open Source: Runner-up: DistrictBuilder (woohoo!)
- Best Open Data Platform: OpenDataPhilly (woot!)
- Best Civic Start-up: Runner-up: ElectNext (a Philadelphia firm)
- Best Use of Social Media: Runners-up (tie): Williamson County, TX, Philadelphia
- Best Transit App: ReRoute.it / Runner-up: Septa.mobi (Philadelphia resident, Code for America fellow and former Azavean, Aaron Ogle, worked on ReRoute.it and the Code for America team as well as some of the Azavea staff worked on Septa.mobi)
- Best Social Services App: Sheltr (developed at Random Hacks of Kindness Philly in December)
Congratulations to all of the award-winners. While I think there were many cities nominated, among both the winners and top vote-getters in the public voting, I thought there were particularly strong showings for:
- New York City
- Austin
- Chicago
- Philadelphia
Are these the centers of civic innovation?
