Revitalising citizen engagement (via GovHack)
The Mandarin reports: “Citizens depend on their governments to provide essential services and to make decisions with their best interests at heart. It is realistic to expect that most, if …
Ballarat – where data is gold
The City of Ballarat has been a sponsor of GovHack for six years. Ballarat is a regional Victorian city with a population of about 107,000. The drive time to Melbourne …
Winner interview: Jaffly Chen from “Team Team”
Jaffly Chen says they were surprised and very happy to win two awards including the bounty prizes for “Intriguing combinations” & “More than apps and maps”. The project they built …
Data VIC: Researching government worker attitudes to open data
Throughout 2018 Data VIC conducted research into open data practices in the Australian government sector to inform Victorian policy on open data. The past decade has seen rapid developments in …
New book: The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons
From IDRC: “In the decade since open data first broke onto the global stage, thousands of programs and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it …