GovHack
GovHack is the largest open data hackathon in the Southern Hemisphere
What is GovHack?
GovHack is an annual Open Data competition held across Australia and New Zealand. This International Hackathon competition is for people of all abilities who seek to make life better through open data. Across one weekend, competitors come together to form teams and solve challenges by creating innovative new projects.
A community event, the 46-hour competition weekend is organised and run by volunteers, with the aim to inspire innovative data re-use, with teams exploring openly released datasets and developing resourceful and imaginative concepts for their use, ranging in format from apps, projects, games or art.
Visit: https://govhack.org/ for more information Or visit GovHack SA for regional contacts
Thinking of Competing?
Head to Hackerspace https://hackerspace.govhack.org/
Questions, queries, check out the Handbook https://govhack.org/handbook/
Challenges (visible at competition start) >> here https://hackerspace.govhack.org/challenges
Resources (Including SAcommunity) >>here https://hackerspace.govhack.org/resources
Interested in learning from industry experts?>>here https://hackerspace.govhack.org/conference
Includes information on 'Using design thinking to create better solutions to your challenges' and more!
Looking for inspiration for GovHack?
The SAcommunity dataset is available, a static copy exported annually is available through Data.SA the South Australian Government Data Directory for the GovHack competition
Checkout Hackerspace -->Resources --> Data Portals --> Data.SA or Hackerspace --> Resources --> Datasets https://hackerspace.govhack.org/data_sets
The SAcommunity dataset is >>here in GovHack https://hackerspace.govhack.org/data_sets/1092
The SAcommunity dataset is >>here under Data.SA
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/sacommunitydirectory
We are listed in Data.SA under organisations with South Australian Government agencies, public sector bodies, local councils and community organisations that have provided datasets. This includes a range of topics on health, education, information, emergency services and much more.
Static annual exports of the SAcommunity datasets from 2014 - 2023 and onwards are available through Data.SA for the GovHack competition >>here https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/sacommunitydirectory
Name: SAcommunity
Description: A directory listing community services in South Australia
File Format: CSV, JSON
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Geospatial Coverage: South Australia
SAcommunity Data Model (Network Model) - Visual Representation of SAcommunity Data Fields
Find the SAcommunity data fields (roughly grouped) above, each data field available is represented by the circles (those in grey summarize the surrounding data fields).
Looking for ideas? Try linking any of the fields together to create a new service/product!
Why is Open Data and GovHack important?
Open data provides transparency and can be used as a mechanism for identifying and solving social, economic and environmental challenges. GovHack provides an opportunity for the community, government, corporate and not-for-profit industries to collaborate, gain knowledge and develop new skills and perhaps new uses for existing data that provide community benefit.
Connecting Up is committed to open data, sharing SAcommunity for innovative re-use and public benefit for GovHack, contributing directory information to public information datasets at Data.sa.gov.au. The SAcommunity team continue to be involved as data mentors during the connections (pre-competition), competition events, and local award events, supporting competitors and teams by providing guidance on datasets. Our volunteers have even become involved as competitors and more recently organisers of GovHack find our experiences and their stories on GovHack >>here
