Congrats!: [www.govtech.com] ... Jill Seman Jill Seman created MomMaps, an app helping parents find child-friendly locations in several cities nationwide. Omar Haroun Aaron Royston These two developers created Sportaneous, an app enabling users to find and organize pick-up games at nearby public facilities. Michael Riedyk Riedyk created YouTown, a product that offers governments a suite of prepackaged apps for their open data. With YouTown, governments don’t have to bother with contests or in-house development. Daniel O’Neil O’Neil created Citypayments, a website aiming to make it easy to search vendors, contracts and payments posted by Chicago agencies. Randall Leeds Leeds is developing a platform for building “community-curated” directory apps called the ReDirectory. It aims to assist those providing services for low-income communities with an up-to-date referral resource. Leigh Budlong Budlong created Zonability, an app guiding citizens through the complicated zoning ordinances in the San Francisco Bay Area. David Emory Brian Ferris Emory and Ferris have been collaborating with the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) to create an open source trip planner that combines multiple modes of transportation. TriMet expects the app to be serious competition for expensive proprietary apps. Waldo Jaquith Jaquith created Richmond Sunlight, a free Web-based app for tracking legislation in the Virginia General Assembly that provides video sessions, voting records of legislators, and an application programming interface for integration into other websites. Savita Farooqui Farooqui is president of SymSoft Solutions, a small Web development and integration firm that created California Cage Fight, a Web tool for visualizing side-by-side comparisons of municipalities based on open data. Dave Augustine Bob Burbach Andrew Carpenter As a federal open data contest entry, these three developers redesigned the Federal Register in a way that made the loads of documents easier to consume. Federal officials were so impressed they collaborated with the developers to officially redesign FederalRegister.gov. David Van Sickle David Van Sickle is the co-founder and CEO of Asthmapolis, a Madison, Wis.,-based company developing tools that enable asthma patients to track how often they use their medication. Van Sickle hopes public health agencies can use data collected by the tools to improve human health. Conor White-Sullivan White-Sullivan created Localocracy, a Web community designed to generate discussions of local issues. Steven Clift - [stevenclift.com] Executive Director - [E-Democracy.Org] Follow me - [twitter.com] New Tel: +1.612.234.7072