[LINK] GovHack Sydney

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from Stone and Chalk, a not-for-profit Fintech hub in Sydney, 
which is hosting GovHack Sydney, part of the weekend GovHack event 
across Australia: http://govhack.org/

There are several hundred people here prototyping computer applications 
using open government data for community benefit. They have until Sunday 
5pm to produce a prototype and a video to describe it. On the way I 
visited the "Games for Learning" node at Boomworks, in the Inner West 
Sydney suburb of Camperdown and the "FinTech" node at the Tyro Fintech 
Hub in the heart of Sydney.

The nodes are much smaller than the main Sydney GovHack, they each have 
a dozen or so people. The gamers are quietly at their keyboards aiming 
to out Pokemon, Pokemon Go. The FinTeckers are diagramming their way to 
systems using block-chain to get around roadblocks in Australian 
electronic transactions (Smart eInvoicing) and mine education department 
data to give international students better program choices. Here at the 
main venue there is a buzz of conversation and the click of keyboards.

More at: http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2016/07/govhack-2016.html


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