Queensland Government GovHack Challenges

1. Where is the knowledge economy in Queensland?Create an app, visualisation or web service using, reusing and repurposing at least 1 dataset from the Queensland Government’s Open Data Portal (https://data.qld.gov.au/) and any other available data sets to map Queensland’s knowledge economy

Prize description (State Award)$1,500 to the entry that best meets the following criteria:

• Addresses the components of the challenge• Innovation and uniqueness• Functionality and marketability• Viability• Benefit to Queenslanders

Potential related data categories include:• Information and Communications Technology• Business and Economic• Government• Education• Maps and Geospatial• People and Society• Research• Science

2. $1,000 for best use of science data on the Qld Government Open Data Portal (State Award)

• Must use, reuse or repurpose at least one science open data set on the Queensland Government Open Data Portal.

• Science data can be accessed on the Open Data Portal using the following tags:– Organisation=Science,

Information Technology and Innovation + Category=Sciences

• Climate Change Adaptation• Facilitate and support decision making for

sustainable development• Protecting the Great Barrier Reef• Economic benefits of ecosystem services• Other ideas for potential applications of

science open data can be found here:  https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/2014-dsitia-open-data-competition-example-ideas

Potential science themes for entries could be:

• Air Quality Monitoring

• Wave and Storm Tide Monitoring

• WildNet API

• Southern Oscillation Index (daily and monthly)

• Near real-time estuarine water quality

• SILO – historic climate data

Data on demand

3. Uncovering Queensland’s untold stories • QSA and SLQ datasets include a vast range of Queensland’s

historical data from convict records to immigration data to digitised photographs maps and posters. These records can reveal new and untold stories of and about Queensland and Queenslanders helping us to understand where we came from – how we got here and where we are going.

• We challenge you to look into Queensland’s historical data and to help us uncover those stories.

$1,500 (State Award) to the entry that best meets the following:• Addresses the components of

the challenge• Innovation and uniqueness• Functionality and marketability• Viability• Benefit to Queenslanders

• Concepts must use, reuse or repurpose at least one dataset on the Queensland Government Open Data Portal published by the State Library of Queensland and Queensland State Archives (https://data.qld.gov.au/).

• Data can be accessed on the Open Data Portal using the following tags:• https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset?

groups=historical&organization=science-information-technology-and-innovation

• https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset?tags=Queensland+State+Archives&organization=science-information-technology-and-innovation

• https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset?tags=State+Library+of+Queensland

4. How can you help your community Get Ready for times of emergency and disaster?

• Help the Qld Government improve the quantity, quality and accuracy of data available to Qld Government agencies in emergency or disaster response or recovery situations.

• Let people know about hazards in their area, those that could be affected and the services that can help.

(https://data.qld.gov.au/)

To raise awareness of public safety, we’d like govhackers to combine the datasets and web services to show how:

• hazards, • risks, • services • and population factors,

vary across the state.

Help generate informed conversations about an assurance of public safety.

The app or website should also:• allow the community to validate and add to the critically

important emergency and disaster response data held by the state and local government.

Prize description (State Award)$2000 to the entry that best meets the following criteria:

• Addresses the components of the challenge• Innovation and uniqueness• Functionality and marketability• Viability• Benefit to Queenslanders