The 2011 GovFresh Awards honors the most innovative citizen and city and local government technology projects of the year.
Add Entries/Vote
- City of the Year
- Public Servant of the Year
- Citizen of the Year
- App of the Year
- Best Government/Citizen Collaboration
- Best Use of Open Source
- Best Open and Participatory Budgeting Initiative
- Best Open Government Policy
- Best Open Data Platform
- Best Civic Hackathon
- Best Civic Start-up
- Best Use of Social Media
- Best Use of Social Media for Emergency Management
- Best Transit App
- Best 311 App
- Best Emergency Management App
- Best Social Services App
Timeline
- Entries/Voting: Through Dec. 5-11 (closes 9 p.m. PST)
- Judging: Through Dec. 12-18
- Winners announced: Dec. 19
FAQ
Why are you doing this?
To showcase all of the city and local leadership and great civic technology work that’s been developed throughout the year. Even if projects or people don’t win, it’s an opportunity for the community to share and see how and what others are contributing. Our hope is that the GFAs will highlight the best and brightest, help better connect citizens with government, provide city and local governments better visibility to into best practices and emerging technology and create a general conversation around how government and citizens can make government great.
What is the submission/voting/judging process?
- Anyone can submit an entry.
- Anyone can vote on submissions.
- Judges will select winners from the top five vote-getters in each category.
How do I submit an entry, and do they have to be my own projects or can I enter others??
Simple. You just enter it in the most relevant category and share with others so they can vote it up. Judges will select from the top three vote-getters in each category. As many as you’d like and, yes, you can suggest other projects and people. We want to eliminate the hurdle of a cumbersome awards entry process and open it up to as many great ideas as possible.
Judges
Alissa Black
Alissa Black is the Government Relations Director at Code for America. Through its fellowship program, Code for America recruits passionate technologists into public service to help governments become more open and efficient. Alissa has extensive experience in technology and local government, most recently leading the Open311 effort with the City of San Francisco, and she holds a Masters in Urban Planning from NYU. Connect on Twitter.
Kevin Curry
Kevin Curry is a co-founder and director of CityCamp and is co-founder of Bridgeborn, Inc. CityCamp is an international unconference series and online community dedicated to innovation for municipal governments and community organizations. Since the inaugural event in Chicago, January 2010, there have been 18 CityCamps in 16 cities, including San Francisco, Denver, Raleigh, and Minneapolis. CityCamps have also been held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, St. Petersburg, Russia, and London, England. Connect on Twitter.
Kristy Fifelski
Kristy Fifelski is an award-winning speaker, trainer and advisor on digital strategy and social media. She serves in many advisory roles related to online government and has served over 10 years in public service. Kristy manages web services and social media for the City of Reno, Nevada, and formerly served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Government Webmasters. She is the host and creator of GovGirl.com, a video blog exploring online government. Kristy earned a Master’s Degree in Communication from Northern Illinois University, where she graduated with honors. Connect on Twitter.
Nick Grossman
Nick Grossman is Managing Director of Civic Commons and Open Cities Evangelist for OpenPlans. For the past 10 years, he has developed products and grown businesses that help cities work better. In 2010, Nick co-founded Civic Commons, a new nonprofit initiative that helps governments collaborate around technology development projects. Since 2006, Nick led new product and business development at OpenPlans, building enterprise open source software for cities. He is also an advisor to Code for America and a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab. He is a graduate of Stanford University. Connect on Twitter.
Dustin Haisler
Dustin Haisler is currently the Director of Government Innovation for Spigit, Inc., and former Assistant City Manager and Chief Information Officer for the City of Manor, Texas. Dustin helped launch Manor’s open innovation platform, Manor Labs, in conjunction with the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University. Dustin graduated Magna Cum Laude from LeTourneau University with a Bachelor’s of Business Administration. Connect on Twitter.
Alex Howard
Alexander B. Howard is Radar‘s Government 2.0 Correspondent for
O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. Connect on Twitter.
Nigel Jacob
With an extensive background in collaborative, citizen-facing technology projects, Nigel Jacob co-founded the Office of New Urban Mechanics. Nigel also serves as Mayor Menino’s advisor on emerging technologies. In both of these roles, Nigel works to develop new models of innovation for cities in the 21st century. Prior to joining the City of Boston in 2006, Nigel worked with a series of technology start-ups in the Boston area. Nigel is also a fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College, where he conducts research on cutting edge models of civic engagement in urban settings. Connect on Twitter.
Nick Judd
Nick Judd is the managing editor of techPresident, a news site covering how technology is changing politics, government and civic life. Prior to joining techPresident’s parent company, Personal Democracy Media, he reported on politics and local government for several publications in and around New York City. Nick also did a stint as an urban public policy researcher at the think tank Center for an Urban Future. Connect on Twitter.
Teresa Lee
Since January, 2004, Teresa has been the webmaster for the City of Prattville, Ala. She also serves as the public information officer and city photographer. Teresa is currently working on an open government project for Prattville that will be the first of its kind in the State of Alabama on the municipal level. She serves as South Region Director for the National Association of Government Webmasters. Connect on Twitter.
Sarah Schacht
The Betty White of Gov 2.0., Sarah Schacht is the Founder and Director of Knowledge As Power & OpenGovWest. Transparency, civic engagement designer. Open legislative info/tech advisor. Connect on Twitter.
Luke Fretwell is the founder of GovFresh. He spent the first part of his career inside the Beltway before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he has worked in and now advises start-up companies, businesses and government on product, content, Web, branding and social media strategy. He holds degrees in Government & Politics and International Relations from George Mason University. Connect with GovFresh on Twitter.
Partners
