[@OKau] what is open data good for?

Sat Apr 11 08:20:01 UTC 2015

Sounds cool Rosie,

Is this still being linked in any way with the international open data
conference in May, apart from it being around the same time?

Cheers,
Steven

*STEVEN DE COSTA *|
*EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR*www.linkdigital.com.au

On 11 April 2015 at 14:16, Rosie Williams <budgetaus at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> My plan for the upcoming open data event aims to bring together topic
> experts with hackers and government to work on problems relating to
> inequality in Australia.
>
> Yesterday I participated in two Twitter chats, the #justjustice campaign
> currently being run by Croakey (health blog for Crikey.com) which is
> focused on improving health outcomes for incarcerated Indigenous people and
> #disabilityabuse which was focused on raising awareness of the problem of
> sexual abuse against people with disability within institutions.
>
> The need for data was raised in both these discussions. As a result I have
> added a couple of pages to the open data projects wiki I am administering
> to assist in planning toward open data projects that aim to solve these
> issues.
>
> There is a page for providing problem descriptions at
> http://infoaus.net/projects/index.php/Problems_that_open_data_can_help_solve and
> a separate page to list the data sets that people would like to have opened
> at http://infoaus.net/projects/index.php/Requested_Data_Sets
> These pages are just stubs at the time of writing.
>
> I thought the latter would be useful for government. I aim to get the
> people working with/researching these client groups to act as topic experts
> advising government, developers and other collaborators in creating
> informed open data projects aimed at addressing these and other issues as
> they emerge.
>
> I am looking at running a Twitter chat to facilitate planning (rather than
> try to do it all through this or other list). Most people seem to be on
> Twitter and I think the event and projects could benefit from
> pre-planning.  I'll post details about that as they are confirmed.
>
> Rosie Williams BA (Sociology)
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