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Easy access required to government data: Apps4NSW winner

The joint first prize winner in the 2010 Apps4NSW mashup competition has called upon all levels of government to provide better ways to search and use public datasets.
Victorian government kicks off $100,000 app development contest

The Victorian government is offering up to $100,000 to software developers in a contest to create applications out of 90 data sets on the data.vic.gov.au website.
Mashup artist calls for changes in copyright law

U.S. copyright law should be updated to better reflect the changing ways that mashup artists and other new content creators use existing works, some participants in the first World's Fair Use Day said.
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MashupAustralia competition winners announced

Two mashups of open access government data, Suburban Trends and Know where you live, have taken out top honours in the MashupAustralia contest.
Developers build useful, fun apps with fed data

The White House's data.gov effort is spurring the creation of some entertaining and informative applications from private developers.

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Building a new window into crime

By combining business intelligence and two foundations of Web 2.0 -- search and mapping -- a police department in the US state of Kentucky has built a brand-new window into crime. This Web-based BI portal allows patrol officers to enter data -- or even pieces of data such as a few numbers from a license plate -- into a simple search interface and retrieve information from their own databases and those of neighboring towns.

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