Showing posts with label open source. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open source. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Using open data for insights into Australian-registered charities

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Rosie Williams of OpenAus recently released her latest open data project, Open Charities , to provide insight into the financials of Austr...
Monday, August 04, 2014

Get ready for the GovHack Red Carpet Awards night

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This Sunday GovHack returns with the 2014 GovHack awards night. With an exclusive Red Carpet Award event in Brisbane, and local events a...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

Round up from GovHack 2014

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GovHack is over for 2014, with teams finishing their hacks by 5:30pm on Sunday, 13 July. With over 1,200 participants organised into 178 ...
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...
Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Having a dinosaur in your corner really helps with public sector innovation

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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 'pro...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Who's open sourcing in Australian government?

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Open source is no longer new news. The movement has been around for over 30 years , longer than the public internet or widespread use of mo...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

GitHub launches portal illustrating examples of government-citizen collaboration on open data, open source and open government

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In an exciting and useful development, GitHub, the world's best known portal for collaborative software development, has launched a por...
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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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Australia is joining the Open Government Partnership

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As reported in Peter Timmins' Open and Shut blog this morning , the Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, has announced that Australia will b...
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Can an 'open' government site be open if it is poorly designed?

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I was chatting with Paul Davis on Twitter recently about the The State Decoded , an open source US-developed platform for accessibly and o...
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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...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Come along to the Gov 2.0 Canberra picnic (with fantastic speakers)

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It is approaching the end of the year, so for the final formal Gov 2.0 event in Canberra, there's a picnic being held on Saturday 8 Dec...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Is Parliament House the peoples' house? Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government

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Is Parliament House the peoples' house or the government's house? This is one of the fundamental considerations within the open g...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Dutch Civil Servant 2.0 books now available in English

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Davied van Berlo 's two books "Civil Servant 2.0" and "Civil Servant 2.0 beta" have finally been translated into Eng...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft...

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It used to be said that no-one ever got fired for buying IBM products. More recently much the same sentiment has been expressed about Micr...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

LobbyLens seeking funding - open government outside the public sector

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I believe that one of the major shortcomings in Australia is the lack of financial support outside the public sector for open government ini...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Gov 2.0 is thriving during Australia's federal election

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Commentators have said that major political parties have "failed to harness the full potential of social media in the 2010 Election...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Six ways government needs to be more like Facebook (to be successful at Gov 2.0)

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I was reading an article at Mashable today about What Facebook gets right and it got me thinking. Facebook, despite its many failings, do...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

App My State a major Victorian Gov 2.0 success

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Victoria's App My State competition has now closed to entries, and has already been an enormous success for the Gov 2.0 efforts in that...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

US Army to launch Apps for Army Competition

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In the style of the Apps for America competitions, the US Army announced at the Gov 2.0 summit that it would hold a competition for soldier...