Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Roundup from GovHack 2017

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Starting in a single Canberra venue in 2009, GovHack is now the largest open data hacking competition for government worldwide, with over ...
Monday, August 01, 2016

Congratulations to GovHack for another fantastic year

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The weekend just past featured the 6th GovHack event, involving over 2,000 participants in 280 teams across 41 locations in Australia and N...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Government launches DataStart fund to foster open data startups, but which problem is it trying to solve?

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A few days ago the Australian government announced the launch of the DataStart fund , to be managed by Polleniser and with the involvement ...
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Saturday, September 05, 2015

GovHack 2015 International and National winners

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Below is a list of all of the GovHack 2015 International and National winners... The GovHack 2015 International categories had competitor...
Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Kudos to Queensland government for taking a fun approach to their Premiers Awards for Open Data

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Some of you might be aware that at the red carpet event for GovHack 2014 in Brisbane, the Queensland government's Assistant Minister t...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

VicHealth launches Physical Activity Innovation Challenge

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VicHealth appears to be one of only a few agencies across Australian state and federal governments that has made a solid attempt at introdu...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Minister Turnbull launches brilliant #opendata National Map of Australia - plugs GovHack 2014

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Yesterday  Minister Turnbull announced the launch of the NationalMap beta - a project jointly developed by the Department of Communicati...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

The economic value of open data to Australia

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This morning I attended the breakfast launch of the Open for Business: How Open Data Can Help Achieve the G20 Growth Target report . The ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Only four weeks to GovHack - register now!

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GovHack, the largest open data competition in Australia, is only four weeks away. With over $70,000 in national prizes, and local prizes ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Use open data from the Victorian Government to improve awareness and literacy for social and safety issues - potentially win $2,500

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The Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) in conjunction with the Victorian Department of State Development, Business and Innovati...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Online challenges arrive in Australian government

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With psychedelic splendour, the ACT government has become the first Australian jurisdiction to launch a serious whole-of-government online ...
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Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Enter the Queensland Premier's Award for Open Data

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The Queensland Government is currently running their first Premier's Award for Open Data, a competition designed to encourage and suppo...
Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Is there a place for Agile in policy development?

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The Agile software development methodology has changed the way many software companies operate. The approach replaced production-line se...
Monday, June 03, 2013

GovHack 2013 - my top ten picks

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Last weekend (31 May - 2 June) was a big weekend for Government 2.0 in Australia, with the first truly national GovHack held across eight ...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Register now for GovHack 2013

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GovHack is on again this year and it's gone national, with eight locations across Australia. With over $160,000 in prizes, the organi...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

VicHealth Seed Challenge and the history and potential for government challenges

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VicHealth has just announced the start of the VicHealth Seed Challenge , where the agency is asking people from across the nutrition sector...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Opening the vault - Open data in Queensland - watch the livestream

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Today the 'Opening the vault' event is being held in Brisbane, discussing open data in the context of the state. Following from t...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Mainstream media takes first steps in adopting open data hacker culture

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On Monday 4 February The Age hosted the Data Newsroom event, where teams had an opportunity to dig into three previously publicly unrelease...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Infographics: How does Australia compare on government open data released?

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I've developed several infographics (below) comparing the open data performance of nations, looking at which have national open data si...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Transcribe Australia's archival records - earn points towards publications and posters

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Late last year the National Archives of Australia launched a global first for national archives, allowing the public to collaborate in the ...
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