GovHack SA 2020: Connections Event Online 5 August 2020
What: GovHack 2020 - Connections Event
When: 5 August 2020, 6 - 7.30 ACST
Where: Connections Event Online >>here
Visit: https://govhack.org/ for more information on the competition and how to register
GovHack is an international competition for people of all skills and abilities who seek to make life better through open data. Across one weekend, thousands come together to form teams, agree on projects, and participate in what has become one of the world’s largest open data competitions.
The Online Connections Event provides an opportunity for competitors to gain an understanding of the upcoming competition weekend, with the GovHack 2020 Competition weekend to be held on 14 – 16 August 2020, as a fully digital event. You can find out more information on the GovHack website at https://govhack.org/ and a link to Hackerspace with the competition rules, events, projects, resources and more >>here https://hackerspace.govhack.org/
Our SAcommunity Team is always interested in GovHack and how teams will use our Data licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 and presented here on Data.SA South Australian Government Data Directory: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/sa-community-directory
Interested in finding out more about GovHack and learning from previous winners? Possibly competing yourself? Read on to find out more!
Mission: GovHack is a festival of ideas that uses open government data to make our communities better
Aims & Objectives: Formed with the objective to raise the profile of open government data, GovHack has since evolved to encompass the following objectives:
- To provide an opportunity through open data for government, citizens and industry to collaborate, gain knowledge and develop new skills;
- To showcase open data as a mechanism for identifying and solving deep-rooted social, economic and environmental challenges;
- To impress upon Government the economic and societal value of quality, machine- readable, standardised open data;
- To highlight the increasing value of open data as a tool to promote transparency, strengthen democracy, and develop trust.
Values
- Inclusive – we’re for everyone! age-less, diverse, accessible, safe and secure
- Free – all our events, everywhere, for everyone
- Hackers first – we prioritise the needs of the community who are participating
- Regional – we’re driving GovHack into regional towns for regional talent participation. GovHack is not just for cities.
- Volunteer-driven – passionate volunteers are the change makers to bring GovHack alive
- Transparent – accountable, published communications, timely and available release of GovHack’s own data
- Open Access – advocate for open data, open source, shareable, adaptable
- FAIR – findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable
Previous GovHack Winners:
2019 Winners: https://govhack.org/2019-winners/
Featured projects: https://govhack.org/2020/05/from-govhack-to-way-beyond-story-of-a-winner/
All 259 projects: https://2019.hackerspace.govhack.org/projects
2018 Winners: https://govhack.org/2018-winners/
Featured projects: https://govhack.org/2019/08/launched-by-govhack-to-the-space-industry/
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Visit: https://govhack.org/ for more information on the competition and how to register
