https://www.kelvinism.com/tags/government/Recent content in Government on Kelvin NicholsonHugo -- 0.164.0en-usMon, 02 Nov 2009 10:30:00 +0000https://www.kelvinism.com/2009/11/govhack-2009_5633.htmlMon, 02 Nov 2009 10:30:00 +0000https://www.kelvinism.com/2009/11/govhack-2009_5633.html<p>Nearly everyone on our team stayed up the entire night; most of us didn&rsquo;t sleep at all.</p> <p>It had been years since I last pulled an all-nighter, but they had always been for good causes. I had just completed another one and had an immense amount of fun in the process. The reason? <a href="http://govhack.org">GovHack</a>.</p> <p>GovHack aimed to encourage the Australian government to make as much information openly available as possible. The challenge was to take the scattered pieces of information already available and turn them into useful tools or visualisations for the public.</p>