This is a guest post written by Rosie Williams, a leading Australian Open Data Developer and Citizen Journalist, who created and manages infoAus.net and writes for NoFibs.com.au. It’s republished with her permission. Can open data really form the basis of…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
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Guest blog: Can open data really form the basis of a social good startup in Australia?
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Posts from feeds, Smart communities Tagged with: Australia, Craig Thomler, infoAus.net, open data, Rosie Williams, Social enterprise, startups
New data report signals a major shift in data thinking in the senior Australian public service
While successive Australian governments have touted ‘evidence-based policy’, a significant ongoing challenge within Australia’s public service has been generating or accessing the right data at the right time – particularly across agencies – for actually testing policy assumptions and following…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Informing Decision-making, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: Australia, Craig Thomler, data, evidence, open data, policy maker, policy making, public services
Using open data for insights into Australian-registered charities
Rosie Williams of OpenAus recently released her latest open data project, Open Charities, to provide insight into the financials of Australian charities. The service integrates the available open data from 53,000 registered Australian charities in a way never done before, allowing…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Australia, Charities, Community, Craig Thomler, gov2au, Open Charities, open data, open policy, open source, OpenAus, Rosie Williams
The Australian government has put digital government and open data in the centre
With the change in Prime Minister to Malcolm Turnbull there was always likely to be a shift in the prominence of digital and IT within government. The new administrative arrangements released earlier this week demonstrated this clearly, with the Digital…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: Australia, Canberra, Craig Thomler, eGovAU
GovHack 2015 International and National winners
Below is a list of all of the GovHack 2015 International and National winners… The GovHack 2015 International categories had competitors across Australia and New Zealand: The International Best Disaster Mitigation Hack, iHelp by team Tremorz in New Zealand https://hackerspace.govhack.org/content/tremorz…