1. THE UNLEASHED PREMIERS AWARDS (2 Available)

Supported by The Office for Digital Government, New Venture Institute,

Majoran and Chiliad Consulting

The Unleashed Premier’s Award is offered to two separate projects that demonstrate the most likelihood of being developed further, either for commercial application or community or government use.

The Prize includes development prize of $12,500 provided by the Office of Digital Government and mentoring support provided from our Platinum award sponsors New Venture Institute, Majoran and Chiliad Consulting.

Entry in this prize category requires a commitment to deliver the Project within 12 months, including the completion of a Venture Dorm powered by Mega Accelerator Program. Each Premier Award is valued at over include is $22,000 including:

• $12,500 seed prize money paid upon achievement of milestones
• 2 x 2 hour business coaching sessions
• 6 months Co-working Membership (EnVision or Majoran)
• 3 hours of legal, accounting or marketing panel advice
• Full Scholarship for Venture Dorm powered by Mega Accelerator Program
• Fess paid for Seed Forum pitching day to National and International Investors
• Chiliad Consulting – 5 hours of intellectual property consulting time

The cash component of the prize ($12,500) is awarded on the basis of certain milestones being achieved in the development and establishment of the business associated with the winning concept as verified by New Venture Institute.

UNLEASHED PRIZE CATEGORIES

2. Discover the Beauty of South Australia – Nature Based Tourism

Supported by the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware & Gadgets and vouchers

This category is all about Nature Tourism. Discover the tranquillity, diversity and natural wilderness of South Australia. Visit beautiful parks, marine parks and gardens. See rare and amazing wildlife in amazing locations and world heritage sites. Your concept should help people connect with South Australian Nature and enjoy the beauty of South Australia.

Concepts must use at least one datasets published on the Data.SA open data portal

3. South Australia: The Best Place to do Business

Supported by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

This Category is about using data to deliver a prosperous future for South Australian Business or to showcase why South Australia is a great place to do business.

Concepts must use at least one datasets published on the Data.SA open data portal

4. Safer Cities and Roads

Supported by Motor Accident Commission and Data to Decisions CRC

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

This category is about using data to make safer cities and roads. Could your idea save lives by helping people make more informed choices about road use and safety? Can you increase awareness of the importance of road safety or safer cities for everyone?

Concepts must use at least one dataset published on the Data.SA open data portal

5. Data to Design – Using Data to Improve City Planning and Design

Supported by Local Government Association of South Australia and City of Port Adelaide Enfield

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

Data and information is a powerful asset for town planning and designing cities of the future. This concept should use data to help Local councils with their future planning. Perhaps you can develop a plan for revitalising cities based on evidence. Can you help planning for disaster or emergencies? Develop a data based design the helps, manage roads, parks or water management. Perhaps you can use data to improve service delivery to local community.

You must use at least 2 different councils data published on Data.SA when demonstrating your concept to be eligible. (Council data includes Port Adelaide Enfield, Local Government Association)

6. Data to Decision – Policy or Engagement Insight

Supported by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers
The category is all about policy or community engagement insights derived from data. Can you use data to make a decision or perhaps analyse data to improve policy. Your concept could demonstrate the impact of a policy decision. Perhaps you can help government understand community engagement insights.

Concepts must use at least one dataset published on the Data.SA open data portal

7. Data is Beautiful

Supported by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

Data is Beautiful and we want to reward the best visualisation or artistic representation of data. This could include data visualisation tools, info graphic, interactive websites, Maybe it’s a digital movie of photos or an Artistic sculpture or 3d project.

Concepts must use at least one datasets published on Data.SA.

8. Helping communities connect with data

Supported by Adelaide City Council

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

This category is about creating tools or services that transform data so that the community can engage or understand information easily. Can you create a CKAN extension for Data.SA or perhaps a tool that Governments can use on their websites to help display data in a more engaging way? Maybe it’s even a new data service?

Create tools or services that transform data so that the community can engage or understand information easily.

9. Greening our cities

Supported by Adelaide City Council

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

We love Green cities! Use data in innovative ways to help green our cities. This concept should delve into rich science and research data available on our environment and help governments and the community green our cities.

Concepts must use at least one dataset published on the Data.SA open data portal.

10. Best South Australian Concept that Innovates to a National Market

Supported by Department of State Development

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

The most commercially viable ideas are often ones that serve lots of people! For this concept you should mash up data from Data.SA with other GovHack Official Data sets Think about a problem that needs solving and see if you can draw in data from multiple locations to solve the problem, innovate or provide a new service.

11. Health Living and wellbeing through social inclusion

Supported by HealthSA & Department for Communities and Social Inclusion

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

The is category is all about helping people live healthy and improve wellbeing through social inclusion. Helps people who, through circumstance, may be struggling financially, at risk of harm, or isolated. Being included in our community is a fundamental thing we all need to build a better life. Perhaps you can help the community understand health risks or maybe its helping people connect with services that assist health and wellbeing.

12. Stories of South Australia – Digital Humanities

Supported by Department of State Development

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

This category is all about using data to tell stories or help people engage in the cultural diversity or history of South Australia or South Australians.

Concepts must use at least one datasets published on Data.SA

13. South Australia the Knowledge State

Supported by Department of State Development & Digital Careers

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

South Australia future relies on sustaining a rich pool of talented students from Australia and all over the world, excelling in the areas of science, technology, engineering and maths studies. Use data to support South Australia the Knowledge State. This may be Services for international student or perhaps your concept will help more south Australians connect with knowledge.

Concepts must use at least one dataset published on the Data.SA open data portal.

14. Best Industry, Science or Research data mash up

Supported by the Office of Digital Government, Department of the Premier and Cabinet

“$2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

The category is all about resusing and mashing up data from different industry sectors for great outcomes. ”

Concepts must mash up data published on Data.SA with open data from Industry, NGO’s, science or Research data publishers available from http://uladl.com/data-2015/ or https://www.govhack.org/2015-data/

15. The Most Fun Use of Data

Supported by IINET

Prize: $2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

Anything goes for this entry. It just has to be a fun and engaging use of data.

Concepts must use at least one dataset published on the Data.SA open data portal.

16. Mount Gambier Unleashed

Supported by Harvey Norman, the Friends of Mount Gambier and The City of Mount Gambier

$1,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

Best entry from a Mount Gambier Unleashed team

NEXGEN UNLEASHED PRIZE CATEGORIES

17. N3xGen Mt Gambier Unleashed

Supported by The Friends of Mount Gambier Library & the Department for Education and Child Development

$1,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

Best entry from a Mount Gambier N3xGen Team (All team members must be 18 years or under)

18. N3xGen Playford Unleashed

Supported by Friends of Playford Library & the Department for Education and Child Development.

$1,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

Best Entry from a Playford N3xGen Team

19. N3xGen Onkaparinga Unleashed

Supported by Onkaparinga Libraries & the Department for Education and Child Development.

$1,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

Best Entry from an Onkaparinga N3xGen Team

20. N3xGen Adelaide Unleashed

Supported by the Department for Education and Child Development

$1,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

Best Entry from an Adelaide N3xGen Team (All team member must be 18 years or under)

21. N3xGen South Australian Champion

Supported by the Department for Education and Child Development

$2,000 worth of Hardware, Gadgets and vouchers

N3xGen South Australian Champions. Best entry voted from all entries submitted at N3xGen location

UNLEASHED DEVELOPMENT PRIZES

22.Majoran Co-working and Start up Mentoring Prize

Supported by Majoran

Start-up Prize

6 months of Majoran membership and coworking worth $2600

Mentoring from key players of Adelaide’s start-up community.

Majoran is Adelaide’s coworking community for the tech and creative freelancer communities and start-ups. majoran.co

Nominate for this prize category if some member of your team will utilise this prize. Winner will be the Team that would benefit from the prize the most

23. Australian Computer Society Membership

Supported by Australian Computer Society

4 or 5 ACS Memberships to a winning team.   Information about the ACS Memberships

Nominate for this prize category if members of your team will utilise this prize. Winner will be the Team that would benefit from the prize the most.

24. SASS place – coworking space for women

Supported by SASS place

A Light-start co-working package to a team of up to 3 people for 2 months at Sass Place .

Nominate for this prize category if  members of your team  will utilise this prize. Winner will be the Team  that would benefit from the prize the most.  Please note that Sass Place offers co-working and permanent office space to women only (however men are welcome to come in for meetings and workshops).  The Co working space is available for all women in a team. The Team does not have to be all women to nominate for this category.”

GovHack Prizes

International Categories

The international prizes are available to both NZ and AU competitors.

International Digital Humanities Hack

Supported by the Ancestry and IP Australia with guest judges from NLA and NLNZ

1. Major prize: Best Digital Humanities Hack ($4000)
2. Australian Runner up 1: Best Digital Humanities Hack ($2000)
3. New Zealand Runner up 2: Best Digital Humanities Hack ($2000)

This category is about using humanities data to create an awesome digital humanities hack. Anything that helps people engage in and celebrate cultural and intellectual data.

Supported by Ancestry.com and IP Australia, the GovHack International Digital Humanities prize provides Australia and New Zealand hackers with the opportunity to bring awesomeness to our cultural and intellectual data holdings. We strongly encourage hackers to draw on the IP GOD dataset on data.gov.au, and the many resources available from the major cultural hubs including Trove and Digital NZ, RecordSearch and Archives NZ.

The Major Prize is open to both countries, and a team will be selected from each country for runner up prizes. Bonus points will be awarded for teams with Australian and New Zealand participants.

Best Disaster Mitigation Hack

Supported by the Insurance Australia Group

1. Major prize: Best Disaster Mitigation Hack ($4000)
2. Australian Runner up 1: Best Disaster Mitigation Hack ($2000)
3. New Zealand Runner up 2: Best Disaster Mitigation Hack ($2000)

Australia and New Zealand both have a number of natural disasters that we struggle to deal with every year. This hack is about ways to support disaster mitigation, emergency response or community support around responding to disasters.

International Bounty: Best WWI Hacks (2 x $2000) Supported by the National and State Libraries Australasia, the State Libraries of NSW and the National Archives of Australia with a guest judge from Archives NZ.

2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign in the early period of World War 1. The conflict and the sacrifice of Australian and New Zealand soldiers are remembered every year on ANZAC Day. The National Archives of Australia, State Library of New South Wales, National and State Libraries Australasia, along with archives, libraries and memorials from across Australia and New Zealand have collaborated to release WWI data for GovHack 2015.  More information about the special ANZAC Community Node event in Sydney at SLNSW here. Official WWI data here. There will be one Australian winner and one New Zealand winner. Bonus points will be awarded for teams with Australian and New Zealand participants.

Australian National Categories

Major Categories

The Best Digital Transformation Hack

Supported by the Digital Transformation Office and Communications

1. Major prize: Best Digital Transformation Hack ($4000)
2. Runner up 1: Best Digital Transformation Hack ($2000)
3. Runner up 2: Best Digital Transformation Hack ($2000)

This is an open category for you to show us how we should do digital transformation in government It could include end to end digital services, better ways of show government information, more user centric approaches for major services you use every day or how other parts of government should be brought into the 21st Century!

The Best Open Government Data Hack

Supported by the Departments of Finance and AIHW

1. Major prize: Best Open Government Data Hack ($4000)
2. Runner up 1: Best Open Government Data Hack ($2000)
3. Runner up 2: Best Open Government Data Hack ($2000)

This is an open category for you to show us how open government data is done It could include extensions for data.gov.au, new approaches to managing data, digitising a major piece of non machine readable government data, improved metadata search or aggregation, some form of citizen engagement with government data. Have fun!

The Best Science Hack

Supported by Geoscience Australia and CSIRO

1. Major prize: Best Science Hack ($4000)
2. Runner up 1: Best Science Hack ($2000)
3. Runner up 2: Best Science Hack ($2000)

This category is about science: using awesome government data for great scientific outcomes and helping people engage in, understand and use scientific information in their everyday lives.

The Best Policy Insights Hack

Supported by the ABS and the ACNC

1. Major prize: Best Policy Insights Hack ($4000)
2. Runner up 1: Best Policy Insights Hack ($2000)
3. Runner up 2: Best Policy Insights Hack ($2000)

Every day government data is used to inform and analyse policies. Sometimes policy insights can be found through mashing up different datasets, visualising trends, assessing the impact of changes to policy or tailoring policy in innovative ways. What policy insights can you find to shed light on policy challenges and help communities?

The Best Data Journalism Hack

Supported by the ATO and ABC

1. Major prize: Best Data Journalism Hack ($4000)
2. Runner up 1: Best Data Journalism Hack ($2000)
3. Runner up 2: Best Data Journalism Hack ($2000)

This category is about using government data for data journalism. This could include data visualisation tools, infographic, interactive websites or applications, or anything else that explains, investigates or makes more understandable the often complex array of information in government.

The Best Entrepreneurial Hack

Supported by Telstra and the Department of Industry and Science

1. Major prize: Best Entrepreneurial Hack ($4000)
2. Runner up 1: Best Entrepreneurial Hack ($2000)
3. Runner up 2: Best Entrepreneurial Hack ($2000)

The project that has most potential as a startup or business. The hack would need to describe on the project information page how the team considers it entrepreneurial. For instance how it could be commercialised, how it solves a market need and how there might be a business to build around the idea. We consider collaboration an important part of GovHack so please don’t be cut throat in your approach

Bounty Prizes

Ever wanted to be a bounty hunter? This year you can try to get as many bounties as you like, across any major category. Each bounty has a specific challenge so when you are designing your hack, it is worth looking at what bounties and categories you want to aim for.

There will be a bounty prize from each national agency sponsor available in Australia:

1. Bounty: The hack most useful for an end user ($2000) Supported by the Digital Transformation Office

1. No long description
2. No dependency
1. Bounty: ABC regional bounty ($2000) Supported by the ABC

Competitors are challenged to place ABC regional stories into the hands of all Australians. Bonus credit is given for the mash up of ABC and non-ABC data.

Dependency – to use ABC Local Online Photo Stories data from the GovHack data page

1. Bounty: Statistics data bounty ($2000) Supported by the ABS

Most innovative use of an ABS.Stat web service and at least one other government dataset

Dependencies – Use of ABS.Stat, Use of one other gov dataset from the GovHack data page

1. Bounty: Charity data bounty ($2000) Supported by the ACNC

Using ACNC data in a way that helps to highlight the impact of charities within the community through information, services or the identification of trends in areas of need

Dependency – use of ACNC data from GovHack data page

1. Bounty: Taxation data bounty ($2000) Supported by the ATO

Create a visualisation or an interesting way to present the information from any (or a combination) of the Individual tax tables that may provide or lead to insights into the data.

Dependency – use of the Individual tax tables GovHack data page

1. Bounty: Scientific data bounty ($2000) Supported by the CSIRO

Best use of scientific data to allow members of the public to see the world around them in a new light. Teams should also consider how the public might contribute back to scientific datasets and studies through their particular hack.

Dependency – use of CSIRO scientific data on the GovHack data page

1. Bounty: National Map bounty ($2000) Supported by Department of Communications

Best product or service that utilises the National Map (code or data)

Dependency – use of National Map (code or data)

1. Bounty: Structure of government bounty ($2000) Supported by the Department of Finance

Utilising the Australian Government Organisations Register (AGOR) Dataset, the challenge is to build a way to detect, describe and optionally export changes to the dataset over time. This would result in a programmatic way to advise of changes to the structure of government.

Dependency – use of AGOR dataset under Finance section of the GovHack data page

9. Bounty: Air conditioner bounty ($2000) Supported by the Department of Industry and Science

Did you know that climate and humidity can influence the efficiency of refrigerated equipment like air-conditioners? Use the Air-conditioner Location Running Hours Data to help people better understand their appliance running costs. See how smart meters help households control their electricity.

Dependency – use of the Air-conditioner Location Running Hours Data under Industry on the GovHack data page

10. Bounty: Geoscience Australia data bounty ($2000) Supported by Geoscience Australia

The most innovative hack of Geoscience Australia’s datasets.

Dependency – use of GA data linked from the GovHack data page

11. Bounty: The intellectual property data bounty ($2000) Supported by IP Australia

Can you develop an easy way for non-experts to access and use the IP Government Open Data on data.gov.au to find out where, who and what IP exists in Australia?

Dependency – use of the IP Government Open Data

12. Bounty: Health and welfare bounty ($2000) Supported by AIHW

Best application/visualisation telling a story using AIHW’s data either by itself or in combination with other data.

Dependency – use of AIHW data found on the GovHack data page

• Bounty: Open source bounty ($2000) Supported by Linux Australia

Best use of or contribution to Open Source

Dependency – must use or contribute to open source

14. Bounty: Indigenous issues bounty ($2000) Supported by the Western Australia Department of Aboriginal Affairs

Best Hack addressing Indigenous issues.

No specific dependency

Other prizes

The Hacker Vote

Supported by the National GovHack team, Amazon and Link Digital. Decided by the popular vote of entrants in this years competition.

1. Major prize: Hacker Vote ($1000)
2. Runner up 1: Hacker Vote ($500)
3. Runner up 2: Hacker Vote ($500)

All registered projects that have all parts of the competition entry finalised by 5:00pm will be automatically registered for this prize. Participants will be able to vote for almost two months after the competition.

Spirit of GovHack – Local and National

Local Prizes supported by the GovHack local teams, and the National Prize is supported by NICTA and the eGov Cluster

Each GovHack location will have a Local Spirit of GovHack prize of $500 for the team or individual that displays the greatest spirit of GovHack, aka the best “hacker” ethos. This means the team who best shared, learned and applied their skills to creatively, cleverly and collaboratively solve problems.

Each local winner will be then up for the National Spirit of GovHack Award for $2000 which will be decided upon by the National Competition judges. This is decided by the organisers of each local event and all local winners go into the national pool for the National Spirit of GovHack prize, determined by the national judges.

Team Prizes

There are also a few prizes for particular categories of participants. Teams must self-nominate in the HackerSpace which of the following categories best describes their team and declare the eligible members. Team awards can be nominated for if over 50% of your team members identify with the nominated team category. A youth is anyone 18 years or younger. To be eligible for the Best University or Best Public Servant award please add the relevant competitors *.edu.au or *.gov.au email address.

Each category has a 1st ($1000) prize and two runners up ($500).

• Best Higher Education Teams (Awarded by Google and Splunk)
• Best Youth Teams (Awarded by HP and Computer Power Institute)
• Best Public Servant Teams (Awarded by Microsoft and Acquia)
• Best Professional Teams (Awarded by the AIIA and ACS)