Category: GovHack

GovHack Geelong 2016

Published Tue August 2, 2016

After the great success of GovHack Geelong 2015, exemplified by the recent production release of Geelong Free Wifi Data by Parham Hausler and Daniel McCarthy, I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to run it all over again this year. Event planning and promotion Planning for the event started…

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We’ve reached Peak Hackathon and this is what we need to do about it

Published Tue July 19, 2016

Over recent years, the term ‘hackathon‘ has entered mainstream parlance. There are many nuances in just what a hackathon is – very eloquently articulated by Jack Skinner. What I’d like to unpack today however is the growing number of hackathons in the Australian technical and entrepreneurial scene – and whether…

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GovHack 2014

Published Sun July 20, 2014

July 11-12th saw the 3rd country-wide GovHack – a hackathon intended to bring together local, state and federal government data sets, and release them openly to designers, developers and storytellers to create mashups, websites and mobile applications for social good. Coordinated by the luminary Pia Waugh at a national level,…

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