[LINK] GovHack Sydney

[Roger Clarke]

ABC radio this morning nicely conflated the two meanings of 'hack', and strongly implied that the participants were being invited to break into open government data ...


> ... The FinTeckers are diagramming their way to systems using block-chain to get around roadblocks in Australian electronic transactions (Smart eInvoicing) ...

Oh dear, around the same circle we go for the umpteenth time.

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At 15:25 +1000 30/7/16, Tom Worthington wrote:
>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/
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>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.
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>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.
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>More at: http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2016/07/govhack-2016.html
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