This is the fifth in a series of interviews I’m doing as part of Delib Australia’s media partnership with CeBIT in support of GovInnovate. I’ll also be livetweeting and blogging the conference on 25-27 November. For some people helping government use technology to better serve the public is their job, for others it’s their passion. Mark Headd is firmly in…
A politician’s maiden speech in parliament is usually constructed with great thought and care. It serves as a platform on which they plan to stand for the rest of their term, the issues they intend to prosecute and the topics on which they prefer to engage. However can the same be said of their first…
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…
There’s a great article over at TechRepublic by Lyndsey Gilpin on how the computer algorithm behind HealthMap detected the recent Ebola outbreak nine days before it was identified by health authorities. In How an algorithm detected the Ebola outbreak a week early, and what it could do next, Gilpin describes how by tracking, collating and corroborating…
Last week the Clean Energy Regulator released a calendar that illustrates when other government agencies use National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting data. Called the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting publication calendar, this is useful data for locating government reports on energy and climate change. It also serves a secondary role in highlighting the importance of the…
I’ve done some work analysing who actually won the National awards at GovHack based on the official results at govhack.org/2014-winners/, and this is what I’ve discovered… There were 87 National GovHack awards given out to Projects and Teams, with one GovHack subcategory (Best Science Reporting) unawarded. Of these, 66 awards were awarded to Teams for…
The NSW government today launched the NSW Premier’s Innovation Initiative, a program seeking expressions of interest in projects that support NSW government innovation in four focal areas – Congestion, Social Housing Assets, Open Ideas and Open Data. The process will invite organisations and individuals to submit Expressions of Interest setting out proposals the government could…
At GovHack a few weeks ago my team, The Hack Warriors, wanted to integrate ACT crime data into our project ‘Where Should I?‘ While the ACT makes the data available visually in the awesome Crime Statistics site, it wasn’t available as open data from data.act.gov.au. So during the weekend I went through the code for the…
Tonight I am attending the GovHack 2014 Red Carpet Awards night in Brisbane, and will be liveblogging the proceedings. Keep an eye on my live blog (below) and the Twitter hashtag #GovHack for all the winners and happenings. Live Blog GovHack Red Carpet Awards 2014
GovHack 2014 was the largest open data in Australian history. With over 1,300 participants across 10 locations, it set a new benchmark for engagement with, and reuse of, government data. On Sunday evening the winners will be announced at a Red Carpet Awards Night in Brisbane. I’ll be attending and liveblogging & tweeting the event,…
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