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The Great Anaheim Apps Challenge launches today
Nationwide contest calls for mobile, online submissions in five categories related to city services.
By Caitlin AdamsPublished: September 29, 2009 02:45 PM
The city of Anaheim today kicked off its new contest, The Great Anaheim Apps Challenge. The promotion calls for participants to submit ideas for digital mobile and online applications, or “apps,” relating to city services in Anaheim.
The program is an opportunity to grow the brand of Anaheim in a different way, according to Mayor Curt Pringle, who unveiled the contest at City Hall. He says the city has been working to find new ways to focus on technology: during his State of the City Address in January, Pringle introduced an advisory committee to bring the best local minds in the industry together.
“In a world where technology plays a major role in our lives, we really want to encourage people to give those technology ideas to us and to really connect with the public,” Pringle says.
The contest, which is available on AnaheimApps.org, will run from Sept. 29 through Nov. 30. Individuals can submit ideas for apps in five categories of city services: water and power, parks and recreation, public safety, tourism and Anything Anaheim (for submissions that fall outside of the other four categories).
“Our Web site is going to be promoted through social media; it will be posted today on YouTube and Facebook and Twitter,” Pringle says. “We are going to push out this information to make sure we encourage people around the country to be engaged and connected with our city.”
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The program is an opportunity to grow the brand of Anaheim in a different way, according to Mayor Curt Pringle, who unveiled the contest at City Hall. He says the city has been working to find new ways to focus on technology: during his State of the City Address in January, Pringle introduced an advisory committee to bring the best local minds in the industry together. “In a world where technology plays a major role in our lives, we really want to encourage people to give those technology ideas to us and to really connect with the public,” Pringle says. The contest, which is available on AnaheimApps.org, will run from Sept. 29 through Nov. 30. Individuals can submit ideas for apps in five categories of city services: water and power, parks and recreation, public safety, tourism and Anything Anaheim (for submissions that fall outside of the other four categories). “Our Web site is going to be promoted through social media; it will be posted today on YouTube and Facebook and Twitter,” Pringle says. “We are going to push out this information to make sure we encourage people around the country to be engaged and connected with our city.” NEXT PAGE >> Related headlines Tustin’s Ra Sushi and Anaheim Ducks: roll on Great Park set to move ahead with amphitheater feasibility study Orange County Transportation Authority redesigns Web site |
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