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GovTech Catalyst round 2: list of submitted challenges
Published 6 September 2018
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There were 25 challenges submitted to round 2 of the GovTech Catalyst.
Challenge titles have been summarised for clarity and consistency.
Submitted challenges
| Challenge | Challenge submitted by |
|---|---|
| How might we enhance operational response and fire fighter safety through digital technology? | Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service |
| How might we understand where multiple, overlapping regulatory requirements are being placed on business from different regulatory regimes, using data and emerging technologies? | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) |
| How might we develop a data enabled public sector audit approach which improves quality, adds value and generates efficiencies? | Northern Ireland Audit Office |
| How might we guarantee that prescriptions are not interrupted for people transferring between care providers? | Northern Ireland Prison Service and South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust |
| How might we predict where a business is likely to not comply with regulation and identify the most cost-effective action to take, in order to enforce regulation in a more efficient and effective manner using data and emerging technologies? | BEIS |
| How might we automatically detect and identify illicit goods during the journey across the border without impacting fluidity of trade? | Home Office / Border Force Detection Services |
| How might we reduce the instances of dehydration in older people and consequential hospital admissions through related urinary tract infections (UTIs) by the use of data insights and digital technologies? | Worcestershire County Council |
| How might we support operational decision making through the use of new digital technologies? | Cabinet Office, Bristol City Council, Essex County Council, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Devon Council |
| How might we reduce congestion and pollution and enhance social value and safety by managing traffic flow diversion using data and emerging technologies? | East Sussex County Council |
| How might we, through innovation and technology, improve healthcare provision for those in custody in rural and remote areas? | Police Scotland |
| How might we manage council housing assets using innovative sensor technology and involvement of tenants to achieve substantial reductions in repair costs while promoting affordable warmth? | Renfrewshire Council |
| How can we use existing data from passive monitoring systems, the internet of things and health and social care records to reduce unplanned care? | Worcestershire County Council |
| How might we transform the UK tourist market using redundant rural churches, generate revenues and gather consumer data via an innovative digital tool? | Churches Conservation Trust / DCMS |
| How might we contribute to enabling the aviation sector to grow, while continuing to drive improvements in safety standards, by taking advantage of new technology and sources of data to provide greater visibility of emerging or unidentified safety risks within the aviation industry? | Civil Aviation Authority |
| How might we improve neighbourhoods by using multiple data sources? | Waltham Forest Council |
| How might we tackle traffic congestion? | Sunderland City Council |
| How might we develop a high-speed multi-media display management system? | Police Scotland |
| How might we get a ‘single view’ of the service user - all (permissible) data from across the public sector domain will be accessible to authorised personnel, providing a holistic overview of the user and their current service provision? | Worcestershire Office of Data Analytics |
| How might we address delays in the provision of domiciliary care? | Newcastle City Council |
| How might we get our complex transactional services, such as Out Of School Care, online? | Aberdeenshire City Council |
| How might we gather information about peoples’ travel in Wales using innovative data collection methods? | Welsh Government |
| How might we improve our internal procurement data management processes, systems and reporting in order to meet statutory requirements and ensure best practice, using emerging technologies and systems? | Stirling Council |
| How might we manage our affordable housing delivery programme using a bespoke IT solution? | Angus Council, Forfar |
| How might a complex, centralised licensing and permitting service track real time staff activity and utilisation (against a task) data to better inform and predict its performance? | Environment Agency |
| How might we (an environmental regulator) use emerging data science and GIS technologies to make better, faster, environmental permitting decisions concerning the spreading of waste on land where it is claimed to benefit agriculture? | Environment Agency |