Ninefold congratulates GovHack 2012 winners

Ninefold has congratulated all winners and participants of the largest GovHack 2012 competition yet in Australia, particularly the 10 of 22 winners using Ninefold virtual machines.

Ninefold provided virtual machines and on-site mentoring both in Sydney and Canberra plus sponsorship funding towards the cash prizes. Contestants were supported by GovHack organisers with a range of tools and hosting options, including virtual machines from Ninefold, which will keep the VMs active for six months to allow participants to keep working on their projects.

GovHack is a not-for-profit event that brings government, industry, academic and civil society together to create new mashups, data visualisations and apps from government data sets. GovHack 2012 included data sets from the National Archives, Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia, CSIRO, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian National Data Service, OSP, Australian Electoral Committee, Data.gov.au and ACT data sets. Run by volunteers from the Gov 2.0 Community, Rewired State and the eGovernment Technology Cluster, its aim is to see how government data can be used to benefit the nation.

“GovHack is an example of a productive and collaborative community project and it’s terrific to see government departments and the technical and developer community working together for public gain,” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder at Ninefold. “We wholly support initiatives that show how technology supports openness among our technical community and government agencies.”

GovHack attendees typically include web and application developers, open data and visualisation gurus, accessibility specialists, augmented reality-ists, mobile masters, user-experience fanatics and anyone interested in open government.

A full list of winners can be found at http://www.govhack.org/winners.