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,…
This post is republished from LinkedIn with the permission of the author, Anne-Marie Elias, who attended PolicyHack as Champion and Facilitator for the Incentives To Develop Social Enterprises stream. PolicyHack happened – just like that! It was the courage of a newly appointed Assistant Minister for Innovation the Hon. Wyatt Roy MP and his bold vision to hack for change that led to one…
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…
The Western Australian Department of Premier and Cabinet has launched a consultation regarding their proposed whole of government Open Data policy – citing the relative underutilisation of data and the prospect of unlocking opportunities for greater insights and services. It’s good to see WA take this step. While they’ve had data available openly, primarily through…
In 2011 an IBM computer, Watson, beat human competitors at Jeopardy! This was a new landmark in artificial intelligence – a computer capable of correctly responding to plain English questions, in real time, by figuring out their intent. At the time Watson was a computer as big as a room, and it was the only…
In a great step forward for Australian open data, IP Australia has, for the first time in history, released over 100 years of patent, trademark, design and plant breeder rights records as free publicly accessible and machine-readable data. Released through data.gov.au (at https://data.gov.au/dataset/intellectual-property-government-open-data), while not a real-time feed, the information contained on Australia’s innovation history is staggering….
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…
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…
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…
It’s quite common for those of us on the pointy end of Government 2.0, innovation, agile and open source/open data and similar ‘progressive’ thinking to refer to people who seem reluctant and risk-averse as ‘dinosaurs’. The terminology crosses the government/corporate divide – indeed I’m hearing it now more often in reference to senior management in…
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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