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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