{"id":71960,"date":"2016-07-05T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5efb676e1492342609afe8872328cba7"},"modified":"2016-07-05T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:57:07","slug":"news-story-transforming-public-services-with-digital-apply-for-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71960","title":{"rendered":"News story: Transforming public services with digital: apply for contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Deadline updated to 1 August 2016.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Businesses could win contracts worth thousands of pounds to explore digital solutions to six challenges set by local authorities in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The CivTech competition backed by the Scottish Government is a significant opportunity for entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and other businesses to work with public authorities on transforming services through digital innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The six challenges are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how can we help improve air quality in urban areas?<\/li>\n<li>how can we make our flood forecasting information better used by a wider audience?<\/li>\n<li>how can we get health and social care data and analysis to the widest possible audience?<\/li>\n<li>how can we make our data publications more accessible and appealing?<\/li>\n<li>how can we promote the tourist destinations along the A9?<\/li>\n<li>how can we use technology to design smart roads?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<p>Each of the challenges has been set by a public sector organisation. Up to three organisations could win initial contracts worth \u00a32,000 to explore a solution to each of the challenges over a two-week period.<\/p>\n<p>One organisation will then be chosen for each challenge and awarded a \u00a315,000 contract to spend three months exploring the idea further.<\/p>\n<p>Further contracts could also be awarded for more field-testing and implementation prior to a full product launch. The value of the final contracts is likely to vary challenge by challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The closing date for the competition is 1 August 2016.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/civtech.atlassian.net\/\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses have been challenged by the Scottish public sector to come up with ways of improving services through using digital technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71981,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71960\/revisions\/71981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}