Am 30. und 31. Oktober findet in Canberra, Australien das erste GovHack Camp statt. Das ganze klingt unglaublich spannend – schade das Australien so weit weg ist… Aus der Beschreibung auf der Seite http://govhack.org
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.
What’s the goal?
Governments collect and publish enormous amounts of data, but have limited resources to get it into the hands of their citizens in engaging ways. The rise of web based mashups by third party developers, building their own applications on top of such data sets, promises to make the data collected and published by government exponentially more valuable.
The short term outcomes for GovHack include:
- The development of dozens of new applications and mashups on top of Australian government data and web services
- Increasing the promotion of Australian government data sets by their “owners”
- Building new relationships between Australian developers and the government
Longer term outcomes include:
- Making more developers aware of government data sets and their availability
- Encouraging government “owners” of data to license it widely
Encourage government data providers to make their data sets available in ways that enable and encourage mashups and third party applications
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- MashupAustralia: Australien macht große Schritte in Sachen Open Government
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- Publishing Open Government Data
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