GovHack summary
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GovHack is a 24-hour hackathon that brings together passionate and skilled people from various backgrounds to develop applications using government open data. Over 100 participants from companies, non-profits, and different levels of government collaborate in teams. They have access to datasets from agencies like the Bureau of Rural Sciences and Australian Bureau of Statistics. The resulting projects cover skills like web development, user experience design, and geographic information systems. Examples include applications that map public toilets and allow users to rate them, provide local statistics and maps to learn about an area, and correlate government contract data with political donations.
GovHack summary
- 1. GovHack.org Take 100 passionate and skilled people Bring them together for 24 hours Give them access to Government datasets
- 2. Participants Lonely Planet, Sensis, News Ltd, Lagen Spatial + many freelancers and not-for-profits Federal Government including BRS & ABS NSW State Government including LPMA & RFS Powerhouse Museum
- 3. Skillsets J2EE, Java, C++, Javascript, Jquery, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, XML, Silverlight, Flash, Flex... UI and UX experts
- 4. GIS skills? Very few “old school” desktop GIS users Some PostGIS and other FOSS GIS users Little understanding of projections and datums But loads of good ideas
- 6. LPMA contributions Some useful geographic datasets available from ABS in shapefile format Most users wanted statistics rather than maps Lots of data compilation
- 7. LPMA contributions Create matrices showing relationships between: Local Government Areas (LGA) Suburbs Postcodes Plus data conversion, geocoding, reprojection, etc
- 8. Enter a suburb and state: - return the LGA
- 9. Enter a suburb and state: - return the postcode(s)
- 10. 2039 includes Balmain and Rozelle Balmain includes 2041 and 2039 Many-to-many relationship
- 11. Rate A Loo Google Map showing ACT public toilets Allows user to rate the condition Crowd-sourcing information back to Govt Demonstrates common-operating-picture
- 15. Know Where You Live Site returns statistics drawn from ABS, NSW Crime Commission, etc Geo-coded photo from the National Library Google Map of the area
- 16. Know Where You Live
- 19. My Representatives User enters an address Site lists the politicians representing that area
- 21. Fridgemate
- 23. It’s buggered, mate Allows users to draw features on the map Domain dropdown provides validation Annotate with information on damage Logs inputs into an archive
- 28. Lobby Clue Correlates data about Government contracts, business details and politicians Shows the relationships between them Data sources: Contract Notices from tenders.gov.au Electoral Region Boundaries Business names from Australian Business Register
- 32. Links LPMA matrices Rate My Loo Know where you live My Representatives It’s buggered, mate Lobby Clue