I was fortunate to attend a neat event today. It was a #mapjam. The idea is that a bunch of people come together from a local area and begin to map out all the things that are happening in relation to their 'shareable economy'.
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With the recent announcement of the Australian Government that it is seeking proposals for joint private-public projects using big data, I thought it would be timely to add to the discussion by posting a clip of Nicholas Gruen outlining his thoughts on Government as Impresario. The AGIMO blog lists a number of articles associated with big
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Both Alex Sadleir and Steven De Costa from Link Digital were invited to participate in this ACT Government Google Hangout on civic hacking and open data.
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Alex is the primary developer behind Lobbylens. Which, as an online Government 2.0 project, was Winner of the 2009 âGovHackâ event and was 3rd prize in the Mashup Australia competition. The Lobbylens project required the integration of several government datasets in an informative way to present complex data in a unique and understandable way. As the head of
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GovHack 2012 took on some of the big issues facing government departments. Including, how does government engage with society to co-create a better future? With a strong focus on government data, GovHack invited teams of programmers and designers to invent new and better ways of delivering government data to Australians. Teams with the best apps
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