GovHack South Australia 2021 - Competition 20-22 August 2021
What: GovHack Open Data Hackathon Competition
In 46 hours teams create a project page, proof of concept and a video that tells the story of how government data (including SAcommunity data) can be reused
Who: GovHack Australia
When: Friday 20 August 2021 to Sunday 22 August 2021
Cost: Free event to attend for competitors
Visit: https://govhack.org/
Connect with: govhack.org/slack and join #hack-sa
SAcommunity is dedicated to GovHack and provides data and data mentoring annually at the competition visit our GovHack page >>here
Where: GovHack Events in South Australia
Adelaide (Physical/in person)
Where: Torrens University, 88 Wakefield St, Adelaide 5000
Email: kelly.cairns@torrens.edu.au
Who: All ages event
When: Fri 5pm - 9:30pm, Sat 8am - 9:30pm, Sun 8am - 5:30pm
Register: >>Here
Visit: https://hackerspace.govhack.org/events/adelaide_physical_south_australia
Adelaide - Munno Para (Physical/In person)
Where: Stretton Centre Library, 307 Peachey Rd, Munno Para, SA 5115
Email: mturner@playford.sa.gov.au
Who: All ages event (12+ years to book in)
When: Fri 5.30pm - 10pm; Sat 9am - 10pm; Sun 9am - 5pm
Register: >>Here
Visit: https://hackerspace.govhack.org/events/adelaide_physical_munno_para_south_australia
South Australia (Digital/Online)
Where: Anywhere you are in SA!
Register: >>Here
Visit: https://hackerspace.govhack.org/events/sa_digital_south_australia
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.
- 46-hour competition
- Promotes STEM skills and fosters teamwork
- Encourages problem solving, programming and storytelling skills
- Youth and Adult categories
- Local, state and national prizes
When is the GovHack Competition Weekend?
The GovHack weekend starts on Friday 20 August 2021 and closes Sunday 22 August 2021. In 46 hours, teams create a project page, proof of concept and a video that tells the story of how open government data can be reused. Prize categories are announced at 7pm Friday.
How can I get involved?
Register as a competitor – GovHack is a free event to attend for competitors and observers
Provide Sponsorship – money raised through sponsorship directly supports competitors.
Become a mentor – Are you an authority on datasets, or a subject matter expert?
Competitors will need guidance on data sets and experts to discuss their ideas, consider supporting the participating teams and be a GovHack mentor or coach.
Tell Me More!
Find our more about what the GovHack competition can involve by visiting hackerspace >>here for resources (Including SAcommunity data) https://hackerspace.govhack.org/resources
Interested in learning from industry experts?>>here https://hackerspace.govhack.org/conference
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 Inc. 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 coaches and mentors during the connections (pre-competition) and competition events, supporting competitors and teams by providing guidance on datasets.
What type of Open Data is available?
Official Data for the GovHack Competition for 2021 is available in Hackerspace >>here: https://hackerspace.govhack.org/data_sets
You can also find South Australian Data through Data.SA data.sa.gov.au
Looking for SAcommunity open data to use in the competition?
SAcommunity data is available through Hackspace data sets (illustrated above)
SAcommunity open data export can be found within the Data.SA website >>here
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/sa-community-directory-2021
Interested in how you can use SAcommunity data?
Visit our SAcommunity GovHack page >>here https://sacommunity.org/node/702
