OpenAustralia Hackfest in Google Sydney

We're delighted to host the OpenAustralia Hackfest - The MashupAustralia Edition on 7-8 November in Google's office in Sydney. It's a free all-weekend hacking competition where you get to build cool applications using data from data.australia.gov.au, with the chance to win prizes, including a $10,000 first prize.

I've been banging on for ages about the benefits of freeing public sector information such as public transport data and making it accessible to all. Information is more powerful when it's set free and PSI is publicly funded, intended for public consumption and of great benefit to society.
I'm particularly excited about what Open Australia is doing to make our democracy more accountable by making Parliamentary records more accessible to Australians. There's no better way to show the value of opening up government data than by creating a practical demonstration and I can't wait to see what you come up with!


Posted by Alan Noble, Head of Engineering