Tasmania is once again punching above its weight with tonight’s GovHack awards showcasing our home-grown talent.
GovHack is a national competition run each year where participants take datasets and create new and improved ways for users to understand the information.
The Liberal Government contributed a range of data sets this year on crash data, bus timetables and health data.
GovHack is a key event on the IT calendar which has the potential to make government more effective and efficient, improve transparency and accountability and create economic development and innovation opportunities.
The Liberal Government is supporting the ICT community to increase Tasmania’s economic wealth, productivity and business competitiveness.
I was particularly pleased to present two awards tonight (Sunday).
The Most Outstanding Tasmanian Benefit prize was awarded to Alex Leith for the project Alex’s Tas Crash Maps, which is a series of maps showing Tasmania’s motor vehicle accidents across the state.
The Innovation Award went to the wonderfully named ‘All You Need Is Gov’ for their project What is Gov (Baby Don’t Hurt Me) for creating an iPhone game which educates people about government functions and structures.
Tasmania also impressed on the national stage, with four local teams through to the national awards in Brisbane. Of these, Tasmania won three categories, three second-places and several highly commended awards.
I congratulate all entrants and look forward to an even bigger event next year.
A full list of the Tasmanian winners is included below.
Local Awards
Encouragement Award – Lorem Ipsum, The Hack Report
Best Data Visualisation – Lorem Ipsum, The Hack Report
Design Excellence – Totes Profesh, Altrove
Most Outstanding Tasmanian Benefit – Alex Leith, Alex’sTas Crash Maps
Innovation Award – All You Need Is Gov, What Is Gov (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)
The Spirit of GovHack – The Settlers of GovHack
National Awards
Best Open Government Data Hack – All You Need Is Gov, What Is Gov (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)
Best Digital Humanities Hack (2nd Prize) – All You Need Is Gov, What Is Gov (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)
Best Digital Humanities Hack (Highly Commended) – Lorem Ipsum, The Hack Report; Totes Profesh, Altrove & The Settlers of GovHack
Best use of Trove (1st Prize – split) – Lorem Ipsum, The Hack Report
Best use of Trove (2nd Prize – split) – Totes Profesh, Altrove
Best use of National Archives of Australia data (1st Prize) – All You Need Is Gov, What Is Gov (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)
Best Data Journalism Hack, Taxation Statistics data (1st Prize) – The Settlers of GovHack, Project Settlers
Best Entrepreneurship Teams (2nd Prize) – Lorem Ipsum, The Hack Report
Michael Ferguson, Minister for Information Technology and Innovation
