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Open government data – what can we do in 2014?
image by justgrimes CC BY The State of Queensland is ramping up activities in preparation for the G20 summit to be held in Brisbane in November 2014. According to the official G20 charter, its...
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Doing Open Knowledge in South Australia
Photo courtesy of the State Library of South Australia It’s been a big year for the Open Knowledge movement in South Australia. Adelaide played host to Dr Rufus Pollock, founder of the Open Knowledge...
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2013 in review – Melbourne
2013 has been a packed year for the OKFN Melbourne team. Here are a few highlights. The year began with a data journalism day hosted by The Age prior to Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Melbourne lecture. The day...
View ArticleOpen Community Drinks – Melbourne, March 13!
Did you come to our drinks night at 1000 Pound Bend in January? If you missed it, here’s your chance! The first drinks night was such a success we’re doing it again. Come along to the ThoughtWorks...
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Open data in Queensland – lots of planning and 705 state datasets available
Equity File 760 of 1892 for Merchants Mutual Fire Marine Insurance Coy Ltd. Released by Qld State Archive CC BY <http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/Indexes/Courts/Pages/Equityfiles.aspx>...
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OKF (Australia) Board Meeting
“A Season for Open Knowledge Advocacy in Australia” was kicked off last night with the first of five board meetings for the newly minted members of this years Open Knowledge Foundation Board. The next...
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Melbourne Drinks May 21
Moar drinks! Moar dumplings! Let us know you’re coming, please. As usual, these drinks are for anyone in Melbourne who does anything open: education, government, food, software, hardware – just come...
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Opening Genomic data – it’s debateable
On a night threatening rain about 25 people came together to discuss Open Genomics in a lab at the Edge, overlooking the Brisbane river. The debate was led by two experts: Mark Crowe, a BioInformatics...
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August Board Meeting for Open Knowledge Australia
Notes from board meeting: Intro discussion topic:<– Nick, Fiona, Flanders and questions from the board via Etherpad ODI Discussion: “activists vs economists”? Economic value of Open Data report?...
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HealthHack 2014: the story of a bar chart
“I’ve got this other idea, but I’m not sure if it’s really appropriate. It’s probably really boring. I want to show who gets NHMRC grants and who doesn’t. The NHMRC release all this data but it’s in...
View ArticleAustralian Activities on International Open Data Day, 21 February
International Open Data day falls on 21 February and there will be a range of practical ways people can help out within an Australian context. Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around...
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Australia’s Open Data Census goes Beta
Australia’s Regional Open Data Census was launched as a beta web-site on International Open Data Day (21 Feb 2015). The census is a crowd-sourced measure of the openness of key data published by...
View ArticleSeven Principles of a 21st Century Government
As part of International Open Data Day (IODD) the folks at Code for Australia organised a Sydney based workshop designed to discuss ‘Principles of a 21st Century Government’. This was one of three...
View ArticleHow much Gov would a GovHack hack if a GovHack could hack Gov
I think the correct answer is that a GovHack would hack so much Gov they wouldn’t know how much Gov they hacked. Although the 2014 GovHack the annual report attempts to cover the answer in a little...
View ArticleOKAU Board nominations
As discussed in the recent Board meeting there was an action for me to post on the process for rotating new people in through the OKAU Board. My suggestion was that two people each 3 month period would...
View ArticleExploring Trove
This week the Melbourne meetup was fortunate to be joined (virtually) by Dr Tim Sherratt (@wragge), who shared with us some of his vast knowledge of Trove. Hanging out, waiting to join the @OKFNau meet...
View ArticleShut up and Hack: crowdsourcing a blogpost
In the spirit of community involvement, this report on activities at Melbourne’ Shut up and Hack on April 22 has been contributed by attendees Sarah Godwin and Ros Lau. Relative newcomer Sarah worked...
View ArticleCollected sessions on Open Data and Digital Services: Foundations for a New...
On 13 May Open Knowledge Australia held an event in Canberra on the subject of open data and digital services. A collection of session recordings are provided below. Above – Nicholas Gruen: Chair of...
View ArticleJoining the dots in Open Knowledge Australia
At the last Open Knowledge Australia board meeting Markus mentioned a point about providing more information on how people can support each other. What activities are people interested in? What...
View ArticleOpen Knowledge Australia Board Meeting 29 September 2015
Minutes will be available once approved.
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