GovHack 2023 - Connections 9 August 2023 - Competition 18 - 20 August 2023
GovHack Events
9 August 2023
What: GovHack Connections - Adelaide
Who: GovHack SA
When: Wednesday 9 August 2023, 5:30 PM - 8 PM
Where: Torrens University Wakefield campus, 88 Wakefield Street Adelaide SA 5000
How: Register on Hackerspace >>here
Visit: GovHack for information
Visit: Hackerspace for details on connections and competition events and resources
18 - 20 August 2023
What: GovHack SA Competition Event
Who: GovHack SA
When: 18 - 20 August 2023, Friday 6pm SA Opening Event 7pm Challenges announced and Competition begins until Sunday 5pm
Where: Torrens University Wakefield campus, 88 Wakefield Street Adelaide SA 5000
How: Compete, volunteer, mentor or sponsor
Join thousands of others and apply your creativity, problem solving and critical thinking skills to design a project in what has now become the largest open data hackathon in the southern hemisphere, and one of the largest in the world.
Visit: GovHack website for information
Visit: Hackerspace for details on connections and competition events and resources
GovHack
SAcommunity is dedicated to the annual competition and has supported GovHack with datasets and mentorship for many years. Find out more on the SAcommunity GovHack page >>here.
GovHack is an annual competition that brings together data enthusiasts, digital creatives, data analysts, story tellers, entrepreneurs and civic society enthusiasts to work together in teams over 46 Hours. To explore, mash up, ideate and communicate your concepts using open Government data (including SAcommunity data exports).
Your innovative ideas for data can assist the community, and you can win great prizes, create teams and build working relationships, access data mentors who can support you, and even meet sponsors from government and industry, and being part of this competition sets you apart from your peers and strengthens your resume.
Your competition entry
Over the competition weekend you will work with your team to outline your innovative hack and reuse of the open data resources available, in answer to a number of challenges provided by sponsors. These challenge questions are revealed on the Friday night of the event.
Your entry by the Sunday 5pm deadline must have:
1) A descriptive project page made by you in Hackerspace
2) Your open data story on your page – a short description of how you hacked the data to make it more useful, informative or engaging
3) A 3 minute video - the link to the actual video must be lodged on your project page and
4) The source (code/schema/design) you provide.
The SAcommunity Team members have been part of GovHack for many years and have a number of stories of their experiences.
Visit former intern and current volunteer Jesslyn Danli's portfolio blog >>here and Volunteer and Data Analytics Team Lead Stathis Avramis experience here to find out more about the Connections event.
Visit former volunteers' Hang Zhang and Alison Do to understand their experience of being a participant in the GovHack Competition in 2021 - Alison Do has had a long association with GovHack from competitor to volunteer.
Also from Volunteer Helia Bornaki's experience of also volunteering for the GovHack Competition in 2022 >>here
GovHack 2022 SA Winners Announcement Event
