{"id":96371,"date":"2018-10-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7de2bc5c7405651b01c4ca90463b9a37"},"modified":"2018-10-09T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T05:00:00","slug":"news-story-submit-an-innovation-challenge-for-the-govtech-catalyst-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=96371","title":{"rendered":"News story: Submit an innovation challenge for the GovTech Catalyst round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The GovTech Catalyst matches complex public sector problems with private sector innovators via competitions for research and development funding.<\/p>\n<p>GovTech Catalyst competitions help the public sector identify and work with cutting edge technology firms. The competitions use the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) process, supported by Innovate UK.<\/p>\n<p>Any UK public sector body can submit a challenge, including those in devolved administrations and at the local level.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Round 3 is now open. Challenges can be submitted until 12 November.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/how-to-submit-a-govtech-catalyst-challenge\">Read more about how to submit a challenge and the challenge selection criteria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Round 3 competitions and phase 1 implementation are planned to run from 4 March.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"examples-of-previous-challenges\">Examples of previous challenges<\/h2>\n<p>The challenges selected in round 2 were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How might we improve firefighter safety and operational response?<\/li>\n<li>How might we make better use of data to guide public sector audits?<\/li>\n<li>How might we automatically detect and identify illicit goods during the journey across the border without impacting fluidity of trade?<\/li>\n<li>How might we understand the overlaps between business regulations?<\/li>\n<li>How might we guarantee prescription continuity while people move between care providers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/govtech-catalyst-round-2-submitted-challenges\">See the full list of challenges submitted in round 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges selected in round 1 were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How might we identify, analyse and catalogue still images that are posted online?<\/li>\n<li>How might we combat loneliness by helping our communities to help each other, connecting physical and digital worlds, in a digitally and transport deprived area?<\/li>\n<li>How might we use emerging technologies to improve the tracking of waste?<\/li>\n<li>How might we tackle traffic congestion using data and emerging technologies?<\/li>\n<li>How might we use intelligent data to transform local council service delivery?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/govtech-catalyst-round-1-submitted-challenges\/govtech-catalyst-round-1-list-of-submitted-challenges\">See the full list of challenges submitted in round 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"find-out-more\">Find out more<\/h2>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/the-govtech-catalyst-challenge-process\">read more about the GovTech challenge process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X1YHTQY8MQs\">\u2018What is the GovTech Catalyst<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"questions\">Questions<\/h2>\n<p>Contact the GovTech Catalyst team at <a href=\"mailto:enquiries-gtc@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\">enquiries-gtc@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/joingovtechcommunity\">join the GovTech community mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public sector organisations can submit service delivery and operational challenges for the next GovTech Catalyst competitions from today until 12 November.<\/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\/96371"}],"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=96371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}