Finding stuff is hard — x-Gov Hackathon may be the answer
- Registration is open https://ti.to/govhack/xgovhackyourwayday
- Date: 10th February Time: 9:00 →21:00
- Location: NDRC, The Digital Exchange, Crane Street, Dublin 8, D08 HKR9
Irish people are big on locations and “great” at directions. People, places, parishes, and connections, life revolves around these things. This story started in summer 2016. To save you a long winded explanation I will jump beginning → middle → hackathon (register here).
Beginning
Last year an idea surfaced during a program I was running. The conversation started as all conversations in Ireland do, with people telling stories. However the people and the topic didn’t die away, the topic was eircode. Eircodes are here and government Departments are figuring out how to integrate this new identifier into their worlds. In this case LGMA, eHealth & HSE were the people talking and the subject we were exploring was Digital Transformation in the Public Service. The MVP looked like this…
Rather than take this on alone, we decided that a hackathon would be a better approach.
[[Take a pause for summer 2016 to passby]]
Middle
Along the way we picked up some others who thought that this was a good idea. DCCAE (or eircode’s parents as I like to think of them) got very interested at the idea of eircode solving problems for citizens. DCU also offered their support and a location to host the hackathon (thanks @trevholmes). DCCAE kindly offered a prize pot to share with the winners, and it looks like others are coming on board to help this initiative be a massive success (names to follow). All we need now is your participation at the hackathon.
Hackathon
Date: 10th February Time: 9:00 →21:00
Location: DCU Collins Avenue Extension, Dublin 9, D09 Y5N0
Register: https://ti.to/govhack/xgovhackyourwayday
Theme: Finding stuff is hard
Open Datasets:
- Health Service — hospitals, clinics, resource centres etc.
- Local Government — libraries, recycle centres, public offices etc.
Please register today. More to come on the hackathon and the problems we are trying to solve.
