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Welcome to CivicApps!

Making public data easy to find and easy to use.

The CitySync Challenge is now on! This unique innovation event recognizes and rewards the best ideas and apps from the community. Join this growing community of innovative thinkers! Help us identify and recognize the best ideas and apps in the region. Share your own ideas. Submit an app to make life easier for everyone. So get your thinking caps on, share your ideas, and show us what you've got.

BE HEARD. Tell us the ideas you would like to see realized. Comment and vote for ways to make public information more accessible and useful.

GET INVOLVED. Show us how to use, combine and represent the information government holds in more useful and interesting ways. Your ideas provide data and input for developers to better understand the local communities' needs and create apps that matter.

TURN IDEAS INTO REALITY. Apps are what make it happen. Your participation is what turns the vision for public data into reality. Submit ideas that unlock the potential of local data and you could win cool stuff.

Featured Idea

Portland Poetry Boxes

Portland Poetry Boxes app will provide a regional mobile map of Poetry Box locations, and enable users to share and find Poetry Boxes, and plan their walks...

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Featured App

Public Art PDX

Public Art PDX is a free app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that showcases the rich and diverse collection of Public Art on display in and around...

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News / Press

CitySync - Apps for an even Greater Portland November 30, 2011

The City of Portland is proud to partner with residents and local business to create a new, interactive online resource for and by the Greater Portland community. CitySync, an innovative,...

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The Tour PDX App Contest is now ON!! October 10, 2011

Portland is an epicenter for coffee, cuisine, outdoor activity, music and much, much more. Create an app that makes it easy for visitors to get to these places using TriMet's data. Get visitors...

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Come Hack with Us on the City Council Agenda App! July 7, 2011

One of the most requested datasets by residents is an accessible programmatic version of the Portland City Council agenda. The City Council agenda is one of the most important records of local...

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