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GovHack, Canberra Oct 30 and 31 — produced by Web Directions

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• By:John
• October 12, 2009
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On Friday after­noon at Web Directions South we were excited and hon­oured to be able to announce GovHack, an event we’ll be pro­duc­ing in can­berra at the end of the month. GovHack is an ini­tia­tive of the Government 2.0 TaskForce, in sup­port of MashupAustralia, a com­pe­ti­tion encour­ag­ing the cre­ation of mashups and apps on top of Australian Government data.

GovHack is a free, inten­sive day and a half explor­ing ways of cre­at­ing mashups and appli­ca­tions with gov­ern­ment data and ser­vices, and most impor­tantly build­ing some appli­ca­tions before the event is over. See you in Canberra, October 30 and 31.

The exec­u­tive summary

• What: The first ever Australian Government sup­ported hack day
• When: October 30 and 31 2009 (you can come to one or both days, or hack through the night at the venue)
• Where: Canberra, Australia (venue TBA)
• Who Should attend: Web design­ers and devel­op­ers, IAs, back-​​end engi­neers, usablity and inter­ac­tion experts, infor­ma­tion visu­al­iza­tion gurus, and any­one inter­ested in devel­op­ing appli­ca­tions, mashups, visu­al­iza­tions and other cre­ative uses of Australian Government data
• What will be pro­vided?: Power, wifi, food, caf­feine, inspi­ra­tional men­tors, and the chance to con­nect with new collaborators.
• Price: Free, but RSVPs are essential

One response to “GovHack, Canberra Oct 30 and 31 — produced by Web Directions”:

1. • By:CeBIT 2010: Gov 2.0 building a strong foundation for open democracy | Kate Lundy
   • March 2nd, 2010

   […] Buggered Mate was the win­ner of the mash-​​up com­pe­ti­tion at ‘Govhack’. This site is a geospa­tially enabled user-​​driven com­mu­nity com­plaint reg­is­ter on much needed […]

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