❓ The Minister for Innovation provides a positive update on the 2016 GovHack WA event, highlighting participation numbers, successful projects, and government support. Includes a humorous correction of a date error.
AnsweredQoN 570Legislative Assembly
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GOVHACK WA
— 2016 EVENT
570. Mr M.H. TAYLOR to the
Minister for Innovation:
Can the minister please update the house on the recent
success of the 2016 GovHack WA event?
— 2016 EVENT
570. Mr M.H. TAYLOR to the
Minister for Innovation:
Can the minister please update the house on the recent
success of the 2016 GovHack WA event?
AnswerView source ↗
I would be delighted, member for Bateman. This must be the
first hackathon in the last three years that the member for Bateman was not
able to attend—he is such a strong supporter. It gave me great pleasure
to open the 2006 hackathon, which was held on 29 July.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Members!
Mr W.R. MARMION :
The government has been a major sponsor of this event.
Mr P. Papalia interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Warnbro!
Mr W.R. MARMION : I
meant 2016.
Ms R. Saffioti interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for West Swan, I call you to order now for the first time, I believe.
Mr
W.R. MARMION : It was 2016, Mr Speaker. I apologise for saying 2006.
GovHack is a national event that
goes into 40 jurisdictions right across Australia and New Zealand, and in
Perth, Western Australia, we had over 128 participants, which was the largest
venue in Australasia. Indeed, this year we actually had a link to Geraldton. I congratulate
Pollinators and Andrew Outhwaite, who managed to organise a direct link so that
the Geraldton team could participate in this year's event. I am pleased
to say that Geraldton came second in one of the categories—so
congratulations to the Geraldton team for coming second in the Keep WA Moving
category. They developed a mobile app that shows the restaurants and services
at a destination so that drivers can better plan their trips.
There were many successful entries
that I hope will go on to win national awards. Just to mention two, there was
one that was a dashboard for local government services, and another one that
was an app that brings together shark data, which is very pertinent today,
together with local government information and coastal information, to generate
community engagement.
Also, interestingly, to show age was
no barrier, a nine-year-old boy participated. He came up with an interesting innovation
using Minecraft—which many parents will know about—to teach
12-year-olds how to be more sustainable with natural resources. That particular
young boy won the Future Hacker award for his efforts. I know members are all
very interested in that, so well done.
Over 1 000 datasets and 50
government departments assisted in GovHack. I am pleased to say that people
from many government departments provided assistance on the weekend and gave up
their valuable time to assist the event.
GovHack is an opportunity for
government to show off its data and for the community to work out innovative
ways to use that data, which can better provide services to the community of Western
Australia. I congratulate the Western Australian GovHack prize winners and wish
them all the best for the national awards. It is also an opportunity to remind
them that they can also enter their project in the StartupWA innovation
contest, for which $100 000 is available to them, which will be happening in
two months' time.
first hackathon in the last three years that the member for Bateman was not
able to attend—he is such a strong supporter. It gave me great pleasure
to open the 2006 hackathon, which was held on 29 July.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Members!
Mr W.R. MARMION :
The government has been a major sponsor of this event.
Mr P. Papalia interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Warnbro!
Mr W.R. MARMION : I
meant 2016.
Ms R. Saffioti interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for West Swan, I call you to order now for the first time, I believe.
Mr
W.R. MARMION : It was 2016, Mr Speaker. I apologise for saying 2006.
GovHack is a national event that
goes into 40 jurisdictions right across Australia and New Zealand, and in
Perth, Western Australia, we had over 128 participants, which was the largest
venue in Australasia. Indeed, this year we actually had a link to Geraldton. I congratulate
Pollinators and Andrew Outhwaite, who managed to organise a direct link so that
the Geraldton team could participate in this year's event. I am pleased
to say that Geraldton came second in one of the categories—so
congratulations to the Geraldton team for coming second in the Keep WA Moving
category. They developed a mobile app that shows the restaurants and services
at a destination so that drivers can better plan their trips.
There were many successful entries
that I hope will go on to win national awards. Just to mention two, there was
one that was a dashboard for local government services, and another one that
was an app that brings together shark data, which is very pertinent today,
together with local government information and coastal information, to generate
community engagement.
Also, interestingly, to show age was
no barrier, a nine-year-old boy participated. He came up with an interesting innovation
using Minecraft—which many parents will know about—to teach
12-year-olds how to be more sustainable with natural resources. That particular
young boy won the Future Hacker award for his efforts. I know members are all
very interested in that, so well done.
Over 1 000 datasets and 50
government departments assisted in GovHack. I am pleased to say that people
from many government departments provided assistance on the weekend and gave up
their valuable time to assist the event.
GovHack is an opportunity for
government to show off its data and for the community to work out innovative
ways to use that data, which can better provide services to the community of Western
Australia. I congratulate the Western Australian GovHack prize winners and wish
them all the best for the national awards. It is also an opportunity to remind
them that they can also enter their project in the StartupWA innovation
contest, for which $100 000 is available to them, which will be happening in
two months' time.
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