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AreWeCreating an App Junkyard? How to Incubate and Sustain Inn. In the process of helping out with CrisisCommons and various Haiti relief efforts I’ve noticed recurring challenges around getting resources to sustain all the great ideas and apps being created. As I looked around at all the app contests and volunteer efforts it struck me we are creating an app junkyard.
This does not not mean the apps are junk. It means there is not institutional infrastructure to sustain the apps and innovations that are created. The apps are incredibly valuable but we have no mechanism in place to grow to seed into a tree. Crises often act as crucibles to distill problems rapidly and Haiti in my mind did this in spades. While CrisisCommons gathered an immense talent pool and many brilliant quick spin applications were created, there was no vehicle to sustain and integrate the applications with those in need. There were government agencies and NGO’s that had need, and the community had useful solution, but it was incredibly challenging to connect the two together.