Problem The number of unemployed people in South Australia is quite high. South Australia has the highest rate of unemployment among all the states of Australia. One reason behind this is the problem coming from the jobs demands and supplies provided in South Australia. Sometimes, people’s skill...
Go to Project | XTRA
G'day Australia, Welcome to the #NewAustraliaDay project! #NewAustraliaDay is an openculture, opensource and opendata initiative that believes Australia needs to resolve some fundamental issues with our current democratic identity in order to grow into a prosperous, forward looking nation. ...
Go to Project | NT BBQ Movement
Are the smart decision-making tools that Businesses and Government use are Smart Enough? Outliers is a team of Smarts from the Smarts. We provide insights to various industries all over the globe and facilitate Data Driven Weather Intelligent decision making. We achieve this by using Inter-Disci...
Go to Project | Team Outliers
Team ‘Uno Future’ have created ‘Uno’. Uno is a simple way for businesses and people to come to together making what they are already doing much easier! Uno uses Near Field Communication (NFC) which is already in more than 60% of mobile phones in Australia to collect data from events and tra...
Go to Project | Uno Future
The AiTO is a new and more user friendly way of interacting with people. This is done in two ways, * Firstly via strategically located help centers to allow more people easier access to the service. * Secondly with our Speech analysis retrieval assistant or SARA for short, Sara is designed to...
Go to Project | SchrodingersHack
Group of data munching friends who have a shared love of solving problems using data. Let us expose it and make it useful. Show us your data!
Go to Project | Expose: Show us your data
SoloNav Extracting information from open Government datasets can be a frustrating and overwhelming process. Data analysists and researchers spend more than 80% of their time trying to find accessible, reliable and up-to-date resources (Quora, 2018). Issues with the current open sources data ...
Go to Project | Insight Hackers
* Our project aims to be a service to Australians living their lives, telling their stories through social posts to help people to be more aware of the issues facing themselves. It aims at improving the safety and peace of mind of people in and about our great, vibrant urban, regional and open sp...
Go to Project | Data @ Heart
A mashup of ABS census data and the ATO occupation data
Go to Project | Team UTS MDS Spatial
EIntroducing easyRider - More flow, less stress. A #govhack2018 submission from the Digital Hub crew in Peregian Beach to ease traffic and congestion in the Noosa shire.
Go to Project | Team 268
Create web app which visualizes the locations of safety data, cctv and public lighting, receives warnings and feedback to be sent to authorities, and features a distress signal function.
Go to Project | JellyBeanTesters
We will focus on the utilisation of roads and transport in the Queensland State Government level, primarily on the Gold Coast where there have been recent investment in new transport options in light rail and bikeways. By understanding the difference in traffic levels for districts with more acce...
Go to Project | GCLink
Scammy bot is an intelligent bot being trained to communicate with members of the public and identify all sorts of scams. Scammy is also a Chrome extension that alerts users when they visit suspicious pages that may harm users, for example, shown on the right is a scam email that links users ...
Go to Project | Box of Nerds
Orana is an interactive website that can recommend migrants which suburb to move to, by exploring and understanding Government and open data about various Victorian suburbs. Orana provides insights on factors providing overall quality of life in selected suburbs and provides an avenue for explo...
Go to Project | TubeLights
Our Place is a virtual mural that has been created with data collated from various data sets. The aim is to create a reflection of individual community issues such as homelessness, littering, air pollution and even the possibility of disasters and the communities resilience can be displayed. T...
Go to Project | The Casuals
In the last decade, terabytes of information has been collected from various industries, not to mention historical data that has been collected for many decades. Organizations seem to be unsure of how they wish to use this data however, in the questions they wish to ask and the visualizations the...
Go to Project | Team 193
Big Backyard is a map-app that will allow people travelling around Australia to make use of open data to locate information about attractions at ever-changing locations that are not captured by standard platforms like TripAdvisor. Map your route on the app, then select “what’s near me” to see n...
Go to Project | G.E.O. Janes
# Objectives - We want to better inform citizens about the most suitable way of going out. - With the power of chatbot we can provide suggestions in natural language. - We can provide suggestions for disable people as well. # Functions - A web application provides navigatio...
Go to Project | The Interesting Company
<p>This project is a visualisation representing the Australian budget by the dollars flowing to different departments, representing the physical movement of dollars on a map-like inferface involving different government portfolio areas. <BR>  properties. The aim is to display the markers on the map which makes it easier for the user to compare various suburbs and plan their inv...
Go to Project | Vision
CrowdQuests is a game which has quests and missions to encourage physical activity and learning about points of interests. The quests are designed for: <br/> * Learning about locations * Crowdsourcing data updates * Crowdsourcing new information * Knowledge about problems * Encourag...
Go to Project | Happy Goats
Based the large number of free wi-fi hotspots (either at train stations, or at council locations) across Melbourne, this presents a unique opportunity to present those who connect with a data-driven story available in multiple languages. Given the geo-location of available wi-fi hotspots, user...
Go to Project | Team 180
Using ML to identify which individuals will commit insolvency by creating a compliance risk model and visualizing the results.
Go to Project | Dmitry's Angels
We want to help Australian to be in a better financial situation. Our goal is to avoid another GFC or any other financial crisis. This is the reason why we wanted to work on the challenge related to insolvencies. Our approach for this hackathon was to integrate large volume of data across mult...
Go to Project | DataCake
Many residents of Australia hear a "Welcome to Country" or "Acknowledgement of Country" at events, but do not understand its deep significance, or the importance of country to Indigenous Australians. Many people are unaware of just how many diverse Indigenous nations and peoples exist in Australi...
Go to Project | This Place
Marking 100 years since our involvement in the First World War, the Anzac Centenary is a time to honour the service and sacrifice of our original ANZAC. By using machine learning for colourising and 3D modelling portraits, we bring life to the past. "The Spirit Lives". Our application allows u...
Go to Project | Living Spirit
Melbourne's population is growing with a bold prediction to surpass 5 million by 2021 and past 8 million by 2050. The focus is currently on transport systems such as rail and road, but what about foot traffic? <br> The Marauders App is a crowd-sourced application that connects everyday explor...
Go to Project | Codefefe
Learn about the demographics and stats that make up regions across Australia through a web-based trivia game! the Australia Game makes exploring the diversity of Australian communities fun through a Who Wants to be a Millionaire?-style interface. Using Google Maps, players can see the communities...
Go to Project | Work In Progress
Improving search relevancy and discovery, to make data more accessible to the wider public.
Go to Project | 88
We absolutely love the Open Data movement. We are strong believers that we can collectively as a group make the right choices for our society and change positively the life of every citizen. Even tough an incredible amount of data are publicly available it is still quite hard to find the right d...
Go to Project | Datacake
<br /> ## ❓The problem We're the Codefather team from Terem Technologies. With CouncilPlus we want to solve the problem of open source data access regarding the correlation between funding, services and societal outcomes across local governments. <br /> Currently, inf...
Go to Project | The Codefather
The Happy Parking! project aims to make the most use of the open-source data from government solving practical problems and tell stories of urban development according to historical car park data. ### Part 1 Parkers aim to create a real-time web app for end-users, helping drivers to find a ...
Go to Project | Pakers
We will use historic data sets that cover parking duration/occupancy, pedestrian traffic, congestion maps, and air quality, to establish a base line for congestion in the Noosa’s Hastings Street area. We will then develop vehicle counters to collect data in real time, to provide a live feed on ca...
Go to Project | The Hackermen
Car park unknown. aims to use parking sensor data as a springboard to determine in real-time where parking violations are occurring in the Melbourne CBD. It also assists the public by helping drivers to locate a free car park based on the historical data from the last 4 years. We have designed a...
Go to Project | Unlucky Magician
There is a need to improve government and residents interactions to have a both way communication. There are many data collection points for government data but still there is no dedicated social network platform for government-residents interaction and decision making For example, if Kens...
Go to Project | micents
A board game designed to help people interact with the local historical figures with intriguing life facts, all meshed together in a ‘race-to-the-end” type board game.
Go to Project | Bachmanns and Fulwoods
This project is based on a device which will host emergency data related to a local disaster site. Basically a local internet which works in a situation where no internet is available.
Go to Project | TechPreppers
A local story generator for kids to put together a story board similar to a comic book. The style chosen is a "choose your own adventure" but the adventure is links to various data sources linked on many dimensions. With the diverse data available, every story created is different. The story can ...
Go to Project | Team 101
Taking Data from many different data sets, converting to graphs then into pictures and making art. I've used the Data sets required for challenges, but any data sets could be used for this project.
Go to Project | One of Many
Data is not the key to the future. Data does not define success. The key to the future, what defines success, is people. We are a data integration platform tailored for the healthcare industry, standardising the way health data is shared and incentivising collaboration between hospitals, res...
Go to Project | HealthLink
Recommending tourist spots based on local weather conditions and planing transportation. The goal is to increase job opportunities by attracting more tourists to regional areas.
Go to Project | Tech Monkeys
Imagine if your politicians were more data driven. Imagine if you could make sure your needs and your preferences were right there in front of your MP so every decision they made were backed by facts and evidence instead of being influenced by lobbyists and personal biases. This app puts your nee...
Go to Project | Zero c00l
The Discover Darwin project aims to support economic development in the Territory by helping skilled migrants match their lifestyle preferences to suburbs in Darwin. It gives prospective residents a taste of the uniqueness of the Top End and better prepares them to embrace life in the Territory.
Go to Project | Four 21
Our team aims to provide a solution for public transportation challenges that Sydney is facing. According to the data provided by BOM and Open Data, there is an obvious correlation between weather, and busses or trains punctuality and high usage volumes. We have prepared the “Weather to go” softw...
Go to Project | Team 18
The project explores how solar panels can be used on council land to help home renters take advantage of PV electricity production. Additional benefits include expanding shade in the city through the construction of new parking shelters. We also show how a Smart Parking app can be integrated into...
Go to Project | If there's time
Bubbles creates algorithmically generated, data driven narratives to pop the information and empathy bubbles that exist within today’s digital, atomised society by generating interactive, game-ified, empathy creating narratives.
Go to Project | Team TeamTeam
Our focus was the challenge of identifying where the ATO should locate their Tax Help Centers. This project also addressed the challenge of combining data sets and using open data to help governments answer questions.
Go to Project | Nostradata
SafeACT is a set and forget mobile application that sends public safety announcements by way of push notifications at perscribed times customised to the individual user. Utilising a number of government data sets focused on historical road and transport data, SafeACT builds queries and returns...
Go to Project | Team Erikgen
My Bruce Highway anti-congestion scheme - this is a data story of cables and cars.
Go to Project | Dazed and Confused
Create a showcase of WW1 Content (QLD focus) using modern applications to help connect current and future generations of Queenslanders connect with the legacy of WW1.
Go to Project | BigDataBuddies
Objective: Engaging with local community through playful visualisation of (geo-located) city data as parametric interactive abstract faces. Developing a mobile AR (Augmented Reality) app with two modes, where ‘Mode 1’ will be - translating city data as a parametric face of the city (neighborh...
Go to Project | IDeEA lab
An app that scan Qr-codes and gives you the history and current information on the scanned sight
Go to Project | L.E.S.S. is more 1
An interactive website that teaches students what and where the flora and fauna are in the ocean
Go to Project | L.E.S.S. is more 2
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Go to Project | GovHack Team Test Project
# Spring is coming for recycling We have a waste crisis. Only 32% of Victorian household non-garden bin content is recycled, according to Sustainability Victoria. It is everyone's problem: manufacturers and retailers; household consumers; and waste managers. Despite the means to do so much ...
Go to Project | Litter Louts