g0v Newsletter: June 2014
License: CC-BY g0v Contributor
About this Press Release:
This newsletter is provided on a monthly basis, in which containing issue originated form github. The following contents mainly come from our internal discussion at g0v, including irc 、g0v google groups , support unit on FB and hackpad.
[updated to 6/21]
9th hackthon - Land Justice
- Jun. 21 The 9th g0v hackthon was held in IIS, Academia Sinica on June 21, 2014. 22 projects were proposed, covering various issues such as open data, policy surveillance, democracy participation, food safety, radiance map, citizen media and so on. 16 projects presented at the end, and the "Publicly Owned Properties on FIRE" project won the best project, voted by attendees.
g0v Summit
- Jun. 16 Official website of 2014 g0v Summit launched: http://summit.g0v.tw/
g0V Infrastructure
- Jun. 3 The first prototype of Monthly recruiting press - May/June 2014 Fill the pit Issue
- Jun. 4 Facebook for hackers Mockup created by ETBlue
- Jun. 16 Minor revision of g0v Open Data website released: data entry point was added and the former Open Data inquiry page was move to http://request.data.g0v.tw/
- Jun. 17 fr0ntend-bridge hackthon was held by ly for beginners. The live streaming video was provided as well for online learning.
PR & Newswire
- Jun. 7 ipa was invited to be one of the speakers in the citizen forum: New media and press freedom in the internet era. See also: Online Video
- Jun. 12 clkao, Co-founder of g0v gave 8 speeches in 6 countries during April to June. He hosted an event "Open Data x Open Gov x g0v" to share his experience and observation. Scores of people attended and had an active discussion over the possibilities of Taiwan open data movement. Notable attendees include Jaclyn Tsai, Minister without portfolio, who commented that gov needs to work closer with the g0v community in the future. [slides]
- Jun. 13 UDN news article 張善政:市場調節 4G會降價 mentioned the discussion between the minister of Ministry of science and technology (MOST), Simon Chang, and g0v. "The government hope to reform the government organisation and data with the technique of g0v.", said Minister Chang.
- Jun. 14 Online text interviewed by NTU News EForum. Interview hackpad: E g0v
- Jun. 16 g0v will participate in Coscup 2014. Welcome to our booth!
- Jun. 21 kiang was invited to be one of the speakers in the citizen forum of open data hackathon whihc held by Tainan city government.
Don Democracy
- Jun. 6 Quasi-scheduled mini hackthon for Don Democracy was held in Café Philo
Moedict
- Jun. 8 Cross-Strait Common Vocabulary Dictionary for MAC released by yllan