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Combining the words government and hacking would normally set off alarm bells, but more than 100 web developers and computer experts are meeting in Canberra today to mine data from government servers. The Federal Government is supporting the 24-hour event at the Australian National University (ANU). GovHack organiser John Allsopp says it is the first time in Australia the Federal Government's information vaults have been opened in this way. "Governments collect an enormous amount of data. Now obviously a lot of that is private and that's not we're talking about," he said. "It's about anonymous data such as the census data. Another example is all the public toilets in Australia - where they are, which is a set of data that the Department of Health owns."