GovCore

PROGRAM:  Fellowship

PARTNERS: City of Melbourne

STAGE: In development

FELLOWS: Kyreena Hay, Victor Nava and Jonathan Castillo Bello

DESCRIPTION: GovCore is an experimental, open-source platform that gives local governments all the tools they need to run councils effectively.

It tries to address these problems: 

• Satisfying audit requirements
• Supporting flexibility and continuous improvement
• Resilience and scale in deployment options
• Onboarding new functions and organisations (data migration)
• Managing attachments like images, documents and records
• Embedding spatial mapping
• Managing roles and responsibilities
• Adopting international and industry standards
• Satisfying records management obligations

The project won three awards at the MAV Technology Awards for Excellence: strategy and planning achievement of the year, Victorian achievement of the year, and Australian achievement of the year. Check out a news piece here, the code here or view some of the prototypes for GovAuth, the first piece of GovCore, here.