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National prize for the app that shows you the nearest toilet

Friday 27 January 2012

A smartphone application which shows users where the nearest public toilet is has won the public's prize for best government-information app of the year in a new competition.

The app, named hogenood (desperate need), was designed by a group of management students and won the most votes from the online public.

Winner of the main jury prize is Vistory, which shows the user old photographs and film of their current location. The app is not only educational, but will be really useful to tourists as well, the jury said.

The competition was set up to design apps using government information. Economic affairs minister Maxime Verhagen said he hoped the competition would encourage more and better use of official information 'of which as much as possible is available free of charge'.

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The main prize was the jury prize won by Vistory which me any my colleagues made.

We also love the toilet app by the way.

By Jonathan Carter | January 27, 2012 11:17 AM

Yeeee Hawww Great idea !!!! It is so hard to find a bathroom in this country. Sometimes I wonder if there are any at all. How do you take your children out or the ill or elderly? I know some people that dont't go to church anymore because of there lack of a WC anywhere near the church..I do not know how the locals deal with it...you can only hold it so long...Mabe its not DOG POOP on the streets but human poop because of the lack of bathrooms...LOL

By destiny | January 27, 2012 12:17 PM