Michael Riedyk YouTown

Michael Riedyk created YouTown, a suite of prepackaged apps for agencies to pair with their open data. YouTown's selling point is that governments supply the data, YouTown provides the apps, and agencies simply adjust the settings the way they would on a Google account. Riedyk's hope is that citizens will automatically go to YouTown when they need government data, similar to how people go to YouTube to find videos. Governments wanting open data apps can get them without launching app development contests or using internal resources. Taking a more expansive view, Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra said YouTown could be an easy, inexpensive way for other countries to adopt open data principles. In this video, Riedyk talks about the challenges he faced during application development and what makes his app unique.

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