Behind the scenes at GovHack - Part 1

Senator Kate Lundy interviews participants and judges at the Canberra GovHack event, 30th-31st October 2009.

Part 1 includes:

* Interview with John Allsop, coordinator of Gov Hack
* Rob Manson - mapping the functions of government with the "What the Federal Government Does" (WTFGD) hack
* Adam Kennedy - building tools to create easier access to information across juristictional boundaries, such as all your representatives at all 3 levels of government - http://myrepresentatives.org/. Kate also spoke to Geoffrey who was working on the same project.
* Loads of photos from the event

Please add your comments, and in particular if you were a participant please add any links or other information. Most of these hacks were put up on temporary websites, and so we haven't included their links.

Transcription to come. Help welcome :)

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• opendata
• gov20
• katelundy
• myreps
• mashup