Starting in a single Canberra venue in 2009, GovHack is now the largest open data hacking competition for government worldwide, with over 3,000 participants, coaches, mentors and organisers across 36 venues around Australia and New Zealand. Over a 46-hour period participants including coders, creatives, data crunchers and facilitators, redesign and reimagine citizen services and use…
The weekend just past featured the 6th GovHack event, involving over 2,000 participants in 280 teams across 41 locations in Australia and New Zealand working on 439 registered projects. Effectively the world’s biggest government hackathon, GovHack includes some amazing ideas on how to solve public challenges, using open data from agencies in innovative ways. Whether…
A few days ago the Australian government announced the launch of the DataStart fund, to be managed by Polleniser and with the involvement of RightClick Capital, which aims to foster open data driven startups with commercial ideas. The pilot nine month process will see 20 startups pitch to a board of government and industry judges,…
Below is a list of all of the GovHack 2015 International and National winners… The GovHack 2015 International categories had competitors across Australia and New Zealand: The International Best Disaster Mitigation Hack, iHelp by team Tremorz in New Zealandhttps://hackerspace.govhack.org/content/tremorz The International Digital Humanities Hack patentstori.es by team Patent Trolls in Canberrahttps://hackerspace.govhack.org/content/patentstories International Bounty for Best…
Some of you might be aware that at the red carpet event for GovHack 2014 in Brisbane, the Queensland government’s Assistant Minister to the Premier on e-government, Ray Stevens, announced the Premiers Awards for Open Data. The Awards are a competition to come up with the best use of the 1,400 datasets released by the…
VicHealth appears to be one of only a few agencies across Australian state and federal governments that has made a solid attempt at introducing public challenges as an adjunct to traditional policy approaches. While most governments in Australia still use the same techniques for policy creation that they’ve used for 80 or more years, after…
Yesterday Minister Turnbull announced the launch of the NationalMap beta – a project jointly developed by the Department of Communications and NICTA to create a single authoritative geographic view of Australia from an open data perspective. The Minister said the Map was “part of the Government’s commitment to increasing the number of publicly available datasets.” The NationalMap…
This morning I attended the breakfast launch of the Open for Business: How Open Data Can Help Achieve the G20 Growth Target report. The report was written by Nicholas Gruen (former chair of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce) and his team from Lateral Economics, with support from Victoria University and commissioned by the Omidyar Network (the not-for-profit…
GovHack, the largest open data competition in Australia, is only four weeks away. With over $70,000 in national prizes, and local prizes in each of the 11 locations around the country, there’s not much time left to join the already over 1,000 registered participants to mash-up government data. Register now at www.govhack.org/register-2014/
The Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) in conjunction with the Victorian Department of State Development, Business and Innovation (DSDBI), have launched a data competition to identify approaches using Victorian government open data to improve awareness and literacy for social and safety issues. The competition is open for registration, with entries closing 28 February and winners…
This archive mirrors the original eGov AU blog — Craig’s professional commentary on AI, digital government and technology in public life, running since 2006.
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