Who decides who will receive the prizes?

The winners for one set of awards will be selected by a panel of CivicApps judges, based on the criteria of: Usefulness and utility to Citizens overall, or any particular demographic of users; Appeal of the application in terms of design and usability; Originality, uniqueness and inventive nature of the application; and, Utilization of the various datasets.

Other awards will be determined by public vote, participant vote, and/or individual judges for discretionary awards.