A vehicle for low-hanging improvements

[Niksko]

It strikes me that some issues with government tech are small and relatively easy to from a technology point of view, but for whatever reason don't get fixed or improved. It would be valuable to have a central repository of these 'fixes' or small utilities, with a recognizable and memorable brand and single place to discover them.

The example that springs to mind is that the Vic governments DHHS site listing COVID exposure sites doesn't seems to have any sort of 'feed' mechanism to let people know when it's updated, and there's no way to push this info to people. There's a few different ways you could solve this, but what would likely prevent widespread adoption is the lack of a centralized place to muster interest and develop and release a tool to help with this.

I suppose my point is that just having a GitHub org for this sort of thing is a huge start. And perhaps that coherent branding and advertising of this project will be as important as the tech that it creates

[sarafalamaki]

There's already several github orgs for NSW that you could put these things on. Happy to pass on the details. The NSW site has the same problem. I can imagine the news websites would love to have an API for these as well.