GovHack 2019 Launched

Greetings from the Canberra launch of GovHack 2019. This is the tenth year of the GovHack completion where teams have a few days to build an application using open government data. This is hosted by the Australian National University for 2019. It happens  have just come from the launch of the Square One co-working space at ANU, next door.

ACT Renewables Showcase

I am running a free workshop on "How Green is my Computer?" at the ACT Renewables Showcase in Canberra, 26 July 2019. There is also an electric car exhibition.

Program

9:00-9:20 Registration
9:20-9:30 Welcome/Opening
10:00-17:00 Electric Vehicles Exhibition (in partnership with Tesla Owners Club of Australia and Australian Vehicle Association)
9:30-10:15 Panel: Policy Implications for Renewables with Geoffrey Rutledge (ACT Government), Dr Frank Jotzo (ANU), Dr Andreas Loeschel(University of Munster); moderated by Sylvia Tulloch (BAB Chairman for REIF)
10:30-11:45 Workshop: How Green is my Computer? by Tom Worthington.
11:45-12:45 Panel: Women in Renewables with Shahana McKenzie(Bioenergy Australia), Clara Mazzone (ITP Renewables), Alison Reeve (ACT Government), Michelle McCann (PV Lab), Dr Marnie Shaw (ANU); moderated by Ruth O'Connor (ANU)
13:15-14:10 Seminar: Renewable Energy Innovation and World Trends by Simon Corbell (Energy Estate).
14:25-14:50 Speed Talks: Greening the Future-Bioenergy for Transport and Industrial Application by Dr Clive Stephens (Vtara Energy Group).
14:55-15:20 Speed Talks: How Electric Vehicles Could Shape Our World? by Darryl Bourke (Tesla Owners Club of Australia).
15:25-15:50 Speed Talks: Building Blocks of a Sustainable Energy Future by Vincenzo Marciano and Ryan Wood (Evergen).
16:00-16:55 Seminar: State of affairs: Clean Energy Market Challenges by John Grimes (Smart Energy Council).
17:00-17:30 Closing Ceremony closing remarks by Chief Minister Andrew Barr.
From 17:30, Energy Lab will kick off with their famous annual Hackathon. Join us to explore a variety of opportunities that will accelerate the uptake of clean energy. To register for the Hackathon, click here.
You can find tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/act-renewables-showcase-2019-tickets-63848147528

Women in Design Wikipedia-edit-a-thon at Sydenham Library in Sydney

Greetings from the Hack the Canon: Women in Design Wikipedia-edit-a-thon at Sydenham Library in the Sydney Inner-west. Speakers are Olivia Hyde, Director of Design Excellence, NSW Government Architect; Zoë Sadokierski, senior lecturer, School of Design at the , University of Technology Sydney; and  Cathy Lockhart industrial designer and academic. Thee will be wikipedia editing to follow and the event goes until 4pm, so come along.

Video for GovHack Entry

Greetings from  GovHack 2017. I

I have had some queries in the Canberra Coach Pit about what should be in the Video entry.

As it says in the GovHack Handbook:

"This a video pitch of your entry that tells a story of how you have reused data. The video should demonstrate your hack concept, the benefits or value the concept could achieve and where possible introduce your team. The most common method is to use a screencast, with a voice-over narration". (Emphasis added)

 To that I would add:

1.  Get it in before the deadline (4pm AEST): It doesn't matter how good your video is, if it is not in on time it will not be considered. Making a video is a very time consuming process. Produce a rough cut well before the deadline and then polish, as it is going to take longer than you thought. Upload well before the deadline, as the handbook says: "must submit actual Video URL not link to another website". The preferred location to link to is YouTube.
2. Explain what the problem is: The story you tell should say what the problem you are tying to solve is, as that may not be obvious to the viewer.
3. Make the vision clear:  Don't have tiny text, or too much detail, as that will be hard to see. My tip is to view the video on a smart phone held at arm's length and see if it is watchable.
4. Make the sound clear: Find a quiet spot to record audio. A headset microphone works well, as it gets the microphone close to your mouth.
5. Don't worry about live video:  This is about the application, so live video of people is not essential. You can use screen capture software for a "live" demo and also still screen-shots, along with still images of the people and the problem.
6. Say who you are at the beginning and end: Introduce your project at the start and remind the viewer again at the end.

Tom's Ten Tips for GovHack

Greetings from the Snow Centre for Education at Canberra Grammar School, where GovHack 2017 is in full swing. I am on duty n the "Coach Pit", at the top of the building, which is a little like being on the bridge of a ship. I am looking down on the old red brick buildings of the school, and a winter landscape of bare trees in the fog. Business is not brisk at present with only a few teams dropping in for advice.

Coaching a GovHack team is a skill none of the coaches is entirely comfortable with and so we had a discussion of the "Coaching Kata". 

But we are here for GovHack, so some tips for teams:

1. Build a Team: You need people with a range of skills for your team: it is not just about technical computer skills (it is mostly not about technical computer skills).
2. What is the Problem? You need to be able to clearly and briefly explain what problem you are solving. Practice by explaining it in a few words to people in the coffee queue (the coffee at GovHack is very good).
3. What is the solution? With the problem identified, the solution is still not easy to explain. One way is by comparison to an existing product or service: "It is *** for ***.
4. Who is this for?  Consider who will ultimately use the application and who might be interested in providing the service.
5. Has it been done? A quick web search will help see if what you propose has been done before. If it has, that is not the end of the world, as you can do it differently, or better, or both. 
6. Get Help:  There are Mentors with deep knowledge of the data provided and Coaches with knowledge of tools and techniques. Drop into the Pits or post a query via the forum, or both.
7. Do we have a plan?  It helps to know what you are planning to do when, even if it almost never turns out that way. The GovHack has deliverables at fixed times and you need to work towards these.
8. Do we have a clear presentation? GovHack is as much about explaining your solution s getting it to work. Keep it clear and simple.
9. Get it in on time:  It doesn't matter how good your solution is, if it is not submitted on time, it does not count.
10. Learn and enjoy: GovHack is not a job: you can't tell your team to do something, you can only encourage them. Remember to take breaks and have a walk around outside. This will also make you more productive and ideas will pop into your head when wandering around.

GovHack 2017 Opened at Snow Centre for Education

Greetings from the Snow Centre for Education at Canberra Grammar School, where GovHack 2017 just opened. Tonight is mainly for familiarization and team formation. The hacking proper starts tomorrow. I am a Strategy Coach for the event, which involves wandering around asking people how they are going and prompting them to think about it.

The venue is a new purpose built education facility, more advanced than most at Australian universities. The MC for the event is Matthew Purcell, Head of Digital Innovation at Canberra Grammar School. Matthew is a highly skilled IT professional, as well as a teacher. 

For the next two days the teams will think up something innovative to do with government data, try to implement it and, most importantly, explain what it is and why it is useful.

GovHack 2017

GovHack 2017 is on this weekend. I will be going along as a Strategy Coach for Canberra GovHack. The idea is to help teams of volunteers to build useful applications using data provided by government agencies. This is also happening at venues across Australia and New Zealand.

Random Hacks of Kindness Sydney Summer Hackerthon

Greetings from the Random Hacks of Kindness - Summer Hackathon at the Blue Chilli start-up incubator in Sydney. There are five not-for-profit projects which have been worked on over the weekend and now being pitched. There is a judging process (I am one of the judges) but there are no large cash prizes, just some t-shirts and your name on a perpetual trophy. The projects are, in alphabetical order:

• Egg Donation Australia
• Responsible Cafes
• Thirty-three Cooks
• Youth Health
• Watch Me Grow
• BenJam

There will be RHoK Parramatta, and RHoK Melbourne, next Saturday, 5 December 2015. Go along and join in.

Random Hacks of Kindness - Info Night

Greetings from the Random Hacks of Kindness - Info Night at the Blue Chilli in Sydney. There are five not-for-profit projects being pitched to hackers, for the Random Hacks of Kindness - Summer Hackathon, being held 28 November. The idea is that volunteers form teams to work on projects which have a social, rather than financial, outcome. There are two phases: those who want something built first have to pitch to the hackers  and then the hackers work on the projects. There is a judging process (I am one of the judges) but there are no large cash prizes, just some t-shirts and your name on a perpetual trophy. Also, unlike other such competitions, some projects are on-going, building on what teams built previously. In the past I have seen some interesting mixes of team members from marketing, user interface design and coding. There is no fee for taking part and no prior experience is required.

Blue Chilli is a start-up incubator, with a six stage process:

1. Getting Started
2. Validate Idea
3. Build Tech
4. Get Sales
5. Raise Capital
6. Scale Globally 

BlueChilli came to national attention when it hosted a Policy Hack, with Wyatt Roy MP, Assistant Minister for Innovation. It is located behind the Queen Victoria Building in the Sydney CBD in an old brick building (as start-up incubators usually are).

GovHack Canberra Results

Greetings from the last day of GovHack 2015 at the Australian National University in Canberra. Entries closed a few minutes ago and some of the tams are showing off the applications they built to use open access government data. Patentstori.es showed their system to "Explore the history of Australian innovation" using data from the patent office. Disastermaster.me "... maps the location of all disasters related to Australians since the early 1800's". AuStat generates quiz questions about Australia.

Mathew Purcell, noted computer educator, and his class of Computing and Code Cadets from Canberra Grammar School, recreated the whole of Canberra in the Minecraft game using geospatial data. They also produced Explore CBR to map the locations of public facilities in Canberra.

Crashstory.com is a "platform to research and annotate road accidents, developing them into narratives for the purposes of reflection and providing increased awareness of road safety".

There is a list of all the project from GovHack 2015 available.

GovHack 2015 Starts in Canberra

Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra where GovHack 2015 has just started. There are about 200 participants in Canberra and another 2,000 at other locations around Australia who will be building applications using free open access government data over the next 48 hours.

ANU is hosting Climathon next weekend, to come up with responses to climate change for Australian cities.

Judging a Hackathon

Greetings from day 2 of Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) Sydney winter hackathon, in the Commonwealth Bank headquarters at Darling Harbor. There four teams which have spent the weekend working on projects. They are presenting their results and I am one of three judges who are to award a prize (which is a cheap looking perpetual trophy to make the point it is not about winning).

We are listening to the people with the six projects, who are pitching to the hackers, who then decide what to work on for the rest of the weekend.

One thing I have learned is "user journey" also one team used catchable HTML5 (which did not work on one demo machine). Two teams merged to work together.

Hacking for Humanity in Sydney

Greetings from the Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) Sydney winter hackathon, in the Commonwealth Bank headquarters at Darling Harbor. There are about fifty people who will spend the weekend working on one of six projects designed to help the world.

We are listening to the people with the six projects, who are pitching to the hackers, who then decide what to work on for the rest of the weekend.

The projects

The first project is Communiteer to manage skilled volunteers for not for profit organizations. The second project is iDiversity to provide information on community services which were previously allocated by government but now will be provided competitively. BenJam is to help kids with autistic spectrum disorder (this was a project last year as well. There is a prototype tablet app for kids to communicate with their carers. The Hive  wants to provide a guide to the services available to residents of Mt Druitt in Sydney. The Beauty of Tech aims to encourage women to consider technology careers.

The event is about cooperation, rather than competition. In that spirit, two of the teams have decided to combine their resources. A combined back-end group is building a database system while another group designs the front end. They will then split up to build the specifics of their applications. It will be interesting to see how they have done tomorrow.

Judging

I am one of the judges for RHOK Sydney, who will be using five criteria:

1. Applicable
2. Approach
3. Progress
4. Usable
5. Problem solving.

One thing which strikes me is how much the not-for-profit community projects are adopting for-profit business techniques. One example of this is marketing techniques which personalize the message, so rather than saying your organization provides services to a group, one individual gives their story. Another is to treat volunteers as contract staff, giving them small specific tasks.

On the other hand there are lessons from the not for profit sector for business. One is to have very easy to understand messages and interfaces, where your clients have disabilities and very stressful lives. One example given was how complex the multi-touch interface of a tablet computer can be to use for someone who can only point and click and cannot understand why there is a delay between clicking and something happening.

Solving these problems have considerable commercial applicability. As an example I am trying to work out how to get from Guangzhou Airport in China to the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) overland. This involves (as far as I can tell) three subway systems, a high speed train, a shuttle bus and two customs posts. While services such as Google Maps help with the route, problems such as how to get a subway ticket are very complex. The organization which can solve this problem could earn billions of dollars, as well as reduce billions of tons of carbon emissions.

ps: At the moment I am designing a course to help university students who enter start-up competitions (and will get the credit).

Hacked for Humanity in Sydney This Weekend

Greeting from the Commonwealth Bank headquarters at Darling Harbor in Sydney, where Random Hacks of Kindness Sydney (RHoK) has been holding their RHoK November Hackathon. Four teams have been working on four projects with a social purpose. This afternoon presented their results. In order of presentation:

First Stop are building a system for registering survivors after a disaster, so they do not need providing the same details to every agency. This is intended to not add to an already stressful situation and allow more time for helping the survivors. Already First Stop had a barcode printing application using vcard, from a previous RHOK (used for participants at this RHoK). This weekend the team added the capability of adding extra data fields to suit different agencies.


OCIUS: Are providing a website for analysis of data from a   BlueBottle USV . This is a uncrewed solar and wind powered vessel which collects oceanographic data. The problem is explaining to potential users and the general public what the USV can provide and how it can be used. The team looked at needs of the media, environmental groups and researchers. The aim is to demonstrate the system sailing autonomously around Lord Howe Island, transmitting data via SkyWave . I suggested activities for children be built into the website, such as where they carry out calculations from the data and identify and count animals seen by the on-board camera. This reminds me of the Australian developed Aerosonde Robotic Aircraft. which was the first to cross the North Atlantic Ocean (3,200 kilometres in 26 hours). While the system is intended for environmental monitoring, it also has obvious military applications. The Australian shipbuilding industry could do with a boost, having come in for criticism from the Minister for Defence, who said he did not trust the government owned shipbuilder"build a canoe".

First Robotics: This is an Australian offshoot of the US First STEM Project, to interest children in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). First Robotics provide activities for Australian school children using robots (including Lego robot kits). The RHoK exercise this weekend was to look at how to market the activities to parents and teachers. The team produced style guides, wire-frames and surveys for the website.

Benjam: Is a project for the " Woodbury Autism Education and Research" to build an App which al lows children with autism to communicate with their carers. This would use off-the-shelf networked mobile devices and have a user expandable vocabulary. An example given was a new type of biscuit . The team presented a series of use case diagrams, showing the user journey. The concept is that the device would respond to gestures , such as nodding and pointing. While there has been considerable Human Computer Interface (HCI) research on gesture interfaces and some real products (mostly games) these are too compl ex for this use. Suc h an interface might be of use for adults where their attention is limited, such as when driving . Also Australia has an Autism Cooperative Research Centre, which may find this project of interest.

I was one of the three judges and we were unanimous in awarding Benjam a trophy , but all the projects were good.

Venue

The Commonwealth Bank building  in Sydney provided an excellent venue. RHoK u sed a meeting room with a n outdoor area with views o ver Darling Harbor . The building has an atrium letting light down into all levels of the building and an open plan layou t, with no walls at all onto the atrium.

ps: From 19 January 2015 teaching a "New Technology Alignment" (NTA) on-line course at the ACS Virtual College (register now ).

Hacking for Humanity in Sydney This Weekend

Greeting from the Commonwealth Bank headquarters at Darling Harbor in Sydney, where Random Hacks of Kindness Sydney (RHoK) is holding their RHoK November Hackathon. About thirty people have volunteered their time to work on computer applications with a social purpose. The weekend starts with presentations by those with an idea, or problem, teams then select an application to work on work on. On Sunday afternoon the teams present what they have produced. There is a trophy for the best implementation, but as the organizers emphasize, this is about participating, not winning. I am one of the judges and this should be good experience for when I am teaching New Technology Alignment in January.

One of the problems t work on is analysis of data from the BlueBottle USV. This is a uncrewed solar and wind powered vessel which collects oceanographic data. The problem is the analysis of the large amounts of data the drones collect. 

A second problem owner is "Woodbury Autism Education and Research".  They would like an App which allows children with autism to communicate with their carers.

Learning to Hack Democracy

Greetings from Google Sydney, where I am attending a Open Australia Hackfest on "Hacking Democracy". This is in the Fairfax Building in Sydney, on the harbour. There is room for more participants, if you would like to turn up. This is part of a global week of events on "Civic Technology" (CivicTech). The "Open Government Partnership" (OGP)  has sixty government committed to working with the civil society. Unfortunately, while the former Labour Government decided to join the OGP, the new Abbot Government has not yet joined (something for Minister Turnbull to do).

CivicTech Courses

On-line courses for public servants on how to use tools for making information available online could be useful. Staff who were trained in what to do would be more likely to use these techniques in the daily work, spreading the ideas throughout government. This approach has been applied to teaching "ICT Sustainability".

A quick online search found

1. Solving Public Problems with Technology
2. TC104: Digital Organizing and Open Government
3.  Washington State Open Government Training Act
4. Online Engagement Courses – Final Report, Australian Department of Finance

The New Google Sydney Offices

It is worth turning up just to see Google's eccentric office design.You exit the lift and find you are in what looks like a monorail car. Corridors are lined with what looks like recycled fruit cases, with niches containing Barbie dolls and hooks for unicycles, skateboards and pogo boots. The meeting room has a TV studio look, with lights hanging from an exposed ceiling.

GovHack Canberra Winners

Greetings from Entry 29 in Canberra, where the Canberra GovHack 2014  winners are being announced:

• Most collaborative team: Goldilocks Zone
• Spirit of GovHack: Mind the App

Other categories to be announced  Red Carpet Awards in Brisbane on the 10th August. One entry which got my attention was "Energy Calculator and Comparison tool". Here are the entries for each location:

ACT/Canberra

Project	Team	Video
#What'sUp Canberra	Alcon United	http://youtu.be/75HBUnYZcw8
Accessibility Beacon	Jake MacMullin	http://vimeo.com/100621466
ACT Art Finder	Command-X	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXVqby8t2Ik
Art Run	Syntax First	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOTy9jAXQt4
Art Seeker	The Art Seekers	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5oNki_mBNk&feature=youtu.be
ARTifacts: ACT Public Art	Make Hack Void	http://youtu.be/kIMAMeGSLQE
ArtNearMe	CrescentCode	https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kvcxg6v6za7qstj/AAC2jeAYwET9mRHlTsBIpz7Wa
artrACTion	Just Kitten	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLfhWvGiXrc
Charlie's Magical Data Adventure	Charlie's Data Angels	http://disparity.azurewebsites.net/presentation/player.html
DoCanberra	DoCanberra	http://www.docanberra.com/DoCanberraGovHack.mp4
Inefficient Directions	0x539	https://noahingham.com/govhack/video.mp4
Landsat Time Lapse Journey	A Kicking Wheel	http://youtu.be/u7ksD7stX7g
Languages of Sydney	The Fact Machine	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2F3x2BmMIY
Open Dashboard	Accendo Republic	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBnsWNf-v9Y
Piknik	Corrupt Robot Development	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTZJDLQh83s&feature=youtu.be
Quick Findr ACT	Illuminaté	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OzFLQGccay
Random ABS NRP fact	Martlark
Record Breakers: Climate Change Visualised	Ruby GovHackers	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwSSnBhtfc0
SRS: Reservation System	Syntax First	http://youtu.be/quisfUUV4ZU
Stat.Map	Michael de Hoog	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj4E7wKm6XY
Surge - Energy Search	Corrupt Robot Development	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTZJDLQh83s&feature=youtu.be
Where Should I?	Hackwarriors	http://youtu.be/FB5wJ8TazSA
Who Is Canberra	Goldilocks Zone	http://goldilockszone.com.au/?page_id=315
Crash Story	It’s more fun to compute
Drought effects on Australia	You are now breathing manually
Energy Calculator and Comparison tool	Jonathan and Wai	http://youtu.be/8GFTsaVAOZU
If Gov.au Then That		http://youtu.be/HYM_BCbG0ls
Push-Canberra	Mind the App	http://youtu.be/cXtEa5kSiUU
Time data visualisation	Time data vis
Visualisations	Pataphysical Science
Who Do You Think You Are?	Hacker? I hardly know her.	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ea0wUhlbWQ

Adelaide

Project	Team	Video
Automatic Infographic Generator	PeterCV	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVQOGRPiNJs&hd=1
BUZZSTOP	Moonshine Laboratory	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxk2JeTDd9I
Cancelled	The DJ Team
Civicality	Avocado Smash	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhoPd0KvxTQ
Coursify	Fruit Toast	http://youtu.be/HUwSXeu7eak
Data for social change	P://layford	http://neutralhosting.com.au/govhack
Data.sa.gov.au <-> OpenStreetMap</->	Conflation
Dinkum Street	Dinkum Street	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_LY7JQe8Tg
Endangered Species_Natural Disasters	Disaster Area	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgpAs5SJ-Ck
Immersive Transit Timetable	Hakman	http://youtu.be/Yq6yQjsyr5M
Mining the Metropolitan Fire Service	Shiny Red Mining
My Career Pathway	DataSpark	http://youtu.be/9FkN2pbl274
Navig8	CITBS
PlaySA	New Venture Institute	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB3PUsXjI4M
ptViz Adelaide	factor43	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQHuJOhI8E
Raydar	Midnight City
Revive Survive	Tobias and Friends	http://youtu.be/tnzWni33QbE
School Environment Explorer	Randoms	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjyWV81OFeA&feature=youtube_gdata
Senior Hub	The DJ Team	https://vimeo.com/100622077
Silver Service	Data With Style	http://youtu.be/pHdll49UoMY
Smart Park	Hermes	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AE8AMkb8vg&feature=youtu.be
The Coworking Sociatea	War Tapir	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeo9XzPvi3A
Unleashing SA	SpryLithe	http://youtu.be/8OLfI7cHzOc
VCare	VCare	http://prezi.com/vwndddobq33a/team-vcare/
Vocational Education Infographic	DataSpark	http://youtu.be/hvPei8hqRg8
What grows here?	Nature Ninjas	http://www.whatgrowshere.com.au
When the Heck am I?	INTEC Disco Ninja's
Winning arguments in pubs... with data!	Sleep-in software	http://youtu.be/VUpmi8qFojo
YOCAL	Moonshine Laboratory	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a21v2In8V0g
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City X	The X Team	http://geticy.com/govhack.html
Community GatewaySA	StatsSA
Data Shmata	Frotraz
driverZaid	On The Spot	https://www.youtube.com/user/DriverZaid
duplicate	duplicate
Hakman Project X -- place-holder PLEASE IGNORE --	Hakman
I Can Has Data Here	Hackerspace Adelaide Kittehs
LAIM: Local Area Information Mapper	xquisit	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8CzAVuSBTE
Lambert Conformal Conic (GDA94) to GPS converter	Dinkum Street
Park IT	Multiplier
PieinSky	SpryLithe
SA Youth
Seniors Card SA	Seniors Card SA	http://youtu.be/IITB7ze5qmg
Shaprgram	roroYo	https://vimeo.com/100621852
Should you be afraid?	Hackerspace Adelaide Honey Badgers
SimAdelaide	Leashed	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-yGtbcRKqw
Up My Tree with a Frying Pan #4	Leashed
What's gov got to do got to do with it?	Hakman	http://youtu.be/o2qj4xLif88
Working Title #72	Leashed

Brisbane

Project	Team	Video
AussieMon: The Native Pokemon Game	Invisible Witches	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0cp7VlsTXQ
Brisbane Park Finder	Team Lambda	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ak3sKs-LVc
Conviction	Rum Soaked Invisible Witches	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJDlpyz683I
datapinata	Tropical Tweakers
Futura	Visionaries	http://youtu.be/rcKQOkdgaIM
GoldGo	Tech Stars	http://youtu.be/4E9gA6WsdTA
Hither and Thither	Andy and the exDSTCers	http://youtu.be/Pn6uqlP8I1Y
npm install -g govpack, OR github govpack/govpack	Team Omad	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4
Reading Parks	Invisible Witches	http://youtu.be/9W_5euw8zxQ
Science Dog does GovHack
Vic Builder	Andy and the exDSTCers	http://youtu.be/r4GmbCYmf2Y
WATCH_DATA	Awesome as a Service
Water Bottle	Invisible Witches
A PixelDust Project	PixelDust
A PixelDust Project 2	PixelDust
DateNight	Invisible Witches	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-xNzk5dtV0
Empowered	Invisible Witches	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pei_3dRx26E
Evolution of government	Andrew's team
fixmycity	rameelcajo	http://youtu.be/zpNnu8wChVg
Park Life	Rum Soaked Invisible Witches
Park Me	The Outliers
Park Me	Mikrob	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfyrDTMr-7s&feature=youtu.be
Parkme	Active brisbane	http://youtu.be/S0_UQ8dDSMM
Re$earch	Andy and the exDSTCers
Route Watch	The Stunned Mullets
Science Budget Thing	Hobo coder
State of the Queensland Rental Market	Cruion	http://youtu.be/HDUaoIqcn2c
Strzelecki	Wyld Stallyns

Geelong/Ballarat

Project	Team	Video
Environmental Justice Planner	Technogesic	http://youtu.be/aIoKCZyYPFI
Pee on a Tree	Ballarat Hackerspace	http://youtu.be/_UUv8tSSBNY
Whats Up	Whats up Geelong	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiBOVUhqeHQ&feature=youtu.be
A /dev/null > Project | less	cat /dev/null > GovHack14Project_FINAL.project	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcH0VClRWpo
cityApp	Jazz It Up!	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy3ALmrmhZg&feature=youtu.be

Gold Coast

Project	Team	Video
City Companion	Elite Four	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8MwandP46g
DiscoverGC	ISB Solutions	http://youtu.be/JTwwys6HMpc
Findr	TM2ES	http://youtu.be/Wl0B7SBLiRM
GCFocus	GCFocus	http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/jolfaei/GCFocus.avi
myBackyard	ISB Solutions
MyCity	GovLink
myShots	Jcat	http://youtu.be/nYru-6ojoXw
Social City GC	Chikote	http://youtu.be/hOmw7UZzQPc
SocialTest	5150 Studios	http://youtu.be/X0zD63t2yOw

Melbourne

Project	Team	Video
#ZettaGraf-VR	Virtual Reality Awesome
ACCESSIBLE CITIES	VM Republic	http://youtu.be/FMOY4Y0uSkg
Accessible Melbourne	Accessible Melbourne	http://youtu.be/7KjMPtbqi1s
Australia Through Time - iPad App	Conor O'Kane	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3-ZI0CFQs
CanIBoatHere.com	Steve	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBHp7PO2juM&feature=youtu.be
Check out my Roofage: Geelong Edition	Yuri and the Beards	http://youtu.be/3L_51tEV47k
Crash Test	CreativeDrought
Environment Metropolitan Melbourne	M&O	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b9iLe6Nrn4
Eventable	Rampsters	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzc_vsdvwZk
Herri - Find your place in your community	Herri	https://www.vimeo.com/100622218
inEvent	Team Borg	http://youtu.be/AmWqxUa7_L4
Living, Breathing Melbourne	Living, Breathing Melbourne	http://youtu.be/ATSw6-0X49E
MELB Parking	Team Low Carbon	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hagvN9VD40w
Project Moneyball	Moneyball	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jilTg7tcTbY
Real Trends	Real Trends	http://youtu.be/oZk0NfMR00I
UnlockAustralia	The Unlockers	http://youtu.be/aBfwv9mVUZc
Affordability Through Transparency	Realer State
Have A Seat	LazyHackers
Hidden Agenda	Data Ross
Multi-modal Bike Share Trip Planner	mechturk
Paypol	Team Paypol
Snapshot of change	Goni	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JokgEIw2d0Y
TruthInNumbers - because seeing is believing	TruthinNumbers
VirtualVictoria	L&M
Where is my Pollie?	Team Where is my Pollie
You've got red on you	Gov it all you got

Mount Gambier

Project	Team	Video
Ausplore	The_Nexus
South Aussie Fisher	GYPCS Unleashed
South Australia Informative Mapper	BTB Enterprise	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD08NKbp1rw&feature=youtu.be
Mitch and Trent's Project	Mitch and Trent's Team

NSW/Sydney

Project	Team	Video
_	_
Go West!	Optimer Prime	https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qwkriu9a8cjmfu/GoWestProjectVideo.mov
Hot News Time Machine	Hot News Time Machine	http://youtu.be/pMzWJtGea_I
Live Labour Force	SoothsayRs	http://youtu.be/Hc5fALqROUE
MedMoney	MedMoney	http://youtu.be/H1_y8uBstUI
Money money money!	Murphy's Law	http://youtu.be/8e_oZ4AJXdQ
Project Doom	FUS-RO-DATA	https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/fusrodata.com/projectdoomvideo/Project-D...
Show the Gap	R3K1	http://youtu.be/9FPBMUOvRvM
Social Tapestry	P84D	http://govhack2014.p84d.com/video.html
TheChosenOnesies	The Chosen Onesies
Time Machine	Time Travelers Australia	http://youtu.be/c1NylHnmzos
.	0
*Insight Detectives*	Insight Detectives	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzWLqTkO8_I
#DisruptTheGap	#hacktivists
5th-D Dataset	The graph team	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEs-PMUNtyU
CancerMash	SilentHackers	http://youtu.be/BTwC-0jHsmg
Data-by-region comparator	Something Spatial	http://54.79.100.217:3001/govhack_something_spatial.m4v
Food Buddy		https://www.youtube.com/v/PF%C2%ADeRsIYxug
HealthBites	HealthBites
Science Budget Trend	SilentHackers
Street Safe
Taxation Office	CMU - Tartans
Toastie	BigDataBigDreams	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gj7O7jEx-c
Transport Trails	Transport Trails	http://youtu.be/M6iY80K24yM
WaterCooler	Water Cooler

Tasmania

Project	Team	Video
Alex's Project	Alex	http://youtu.be/yx6ltmwnsKg
Altrove	TotesProfesh	http://youtu.be/g1MXmO11F5Q
CrashUp	Hobart Hackerspace	https://vimeo.com/100622166
Settlers	The Settlers of GovHack	http://youtu.be/Gq158wRQD-A
Tasmanian OpenTripPlanner Just in time. TAS_OTP_JIT	Err:510	http://www.flickr.com/photos/125340686@N02/
The Hack Report	Lorem Ipsum	http://youtu.be/t0zJtFefuqY
Vizidat - Timelapse of Victoria Building Activity By Postcode	Desalasworks :: Flyin Solo	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH31pHb9LIs
What Is Gov (Baby Don't Hurt Me)	All You Need Is Gov	https://www.dropbox.com/s/7cv9l83qxf6pbya/GovHack2014.m4v
OpenTasmania	Err:510

WA/Perth

Project	Team	Video
Australia On Drugs	BeaverLodge	http://youtu.be/Q-BM3UYVsog
Botaniser	Botaniser	http://youtu.be/wByITI0DIns
ClueGo	Code Blue	http://youtu.be/LO2ryDyDB7A
Crime & Space	Acme Crime Lab	http://youtu.be/H66FhLFm5yQ
Do Rich Suburbs use less Buses	Caffeinate Me
Goldfields Through Time	Goldfields through time	https://www.youtube.com/user/101fishthe/videos
GovDesk	Nextia Novarum
GovTroll	GovTroll	http://govtroll.herokuapp.com/video
Mash Academy	Data4Kidz	https://www.youtube.com/watch?edit=vd&v=K2icbdyVU7E
National Eyeball	The Kranzky Brothers	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTiLLuPloAdInG
Sarbii - Search & Rescue	Sarbii	http://youtu.be/NqgtpkliCEE
VizStat	VizStat	http://youtu.be/T74byEOc-vE
Walk About	The Game Changers	http://youtu.be/FH5fvHy245c
Bushack	Bushack	http://govhack.itmaze.com.au/bushack.mp4
InvestHack	InvestHackers	http://youtube.be/fPFZI0jRac
Rain Parrot	Team Rain Parrot	http://vimeo.com/100622153
Shooting Star	The Justice League
Specifik	HackSackCrack	http://specifik.net/video/