Challenges for Competition 2018
Australia
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
International
Transforming the national to the international
Where should Australian Businesses go next?
Go to Challenge | 0 teams have entered this challenge.
Australia
A New Start
How can we improve the process of starting or growing a business?
Go to Challenge | 21 teams have entered this challenge.
Australians' stories
What meaningful ways can we tell the story about what it's like to be an Australian, and in what ways some Australians live very different lives than others? How can we make people more aware of the issues facing themselves and others as they go through life?
Go to Challenge | 34 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Decision Support
How can we make it easy to use weather and ocean data to our advantage? (e.g. when should you lay concrete, or go out yachtting or picnicking?)
Go to Challenge | 24 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Finding all the like needles in the haystack
We are looking for your best and brightest ideas to help us identify the same business applicant across datasets and over time
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Industry meets Academia
How can we overcome the cultural differences between business and researchers to encourage innovation and collaboration?
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Integrating AIHW
How can we integrate AIHW and other data sources in interesting ways?
Go to Challenge | 28 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Is seeing truely believing?
How can we tell a story with visualisations, that speaks the truest representation of our data?
Go to Challenge | 28 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Making open data more open.
How can open data be presented on search.data.gov.au to make it easier and friendlier to use? Does this mean making it more similar to using standard search engines, like Google, or something else entirely?
Go to Challenge | 34 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Mix and Mashup
How can we combine the uncombinable?
Go to Challenge | 61 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Q ANZAC 100 Challenge
How might we engage Queenslanders with Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Tax Help Centers
Looking at how the ATO could use artificial intelligence or machine learning to locate the best locations for Tax Help Centers
Go to Challenge | 21 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Unmasking the State / Territory employment data.
How can we unmask the hidden data behind the labour market in our states and territories?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
Bounty: Visualise the Numbers
How can people better view data on GovCMS in visuals?
Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.
Exploring the Oceans
How can we use ocean data to better support decision making for how we use our oceans? What sort of information presentation could provide more effective understanding of ocean dynamics beneath the ocean surface over a period of time?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Healthy Communities Challenge
How might we assist councils to build healthier and stronger communities?
Go to Challenge | 49 teams have entered this challenge.
Matching Applicants
How could the same business applicant be identified across multiple datasets, and over time? How could we do this in new, or interesting ways?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
More than apps and maps: help government decide with data
How can we combine data to help government make their big and small decisions? Government makes decisions every day—with long term consequences such as the location of a school, or on a small scale such as the rostering of helpdesk staff.
Go to Challenge | 58 teams have entered this challenge.
OneGov
How can we leverage transformative digital technology concepts (smart cards, mobile apps, NFC) and expand on the concept behind MyGov's centralised Government service architecture to promote self-service capabilities for other commercial organisations?
Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.
On your mark, get set, start-up!
How do startups have the potential increase job demand in the long term?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
Protecting our Carers
How can we motivate young carers to search out information on and engage with supports and services early in their caring journey, rather than when they’re in a crisis situation?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Save Lives With Data
How can we use data and technology to better the health of the Australian population, and what could be the economic impacts?
Go to Challenge | 35 teams have entered this challenge.
Show Us The Numbers
How can we use open finance data to turn numbers into stories?
Go to Challenge | 13 teams have entered this challenge.
The Friendly ATO
How can the ATO use artificial intelligence or machine learning to better understand and develop ways to engage with our clients?
Go to Challenge | 15 teams have entered this challenge.
To bankruptcy or not to bankruptcy, keeping the process real.
Helping predict non-compliance in the personal insolvency system. How can Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning assist us in the future?
Go to Challenge | 13 teams have entered this challenge.
Transforming the national to the international (National)
Where should Australian Businesses go next?
Go to Challenge | 15 teams have entered this challenge.
Working Together
How can open government data to improve responsers' situational understanding and ability to plan their response, and share their information between agencies? How can sharing information between agencies be improved by different information presentation, allowing more informed decisions during domestic emergencies or national security events?
Go to Challenge | 20 teams have entered this challenge.
Work Life Made Easy
How can we make work life easier for employers and their workforces – now, and into the future?
Go to Challenge | 27 teams have entered this challenge.
Australian Capital Territory
ACT GovHack Acceleration Award – sponsored by the ACT Government in partnership with the Canberra Innovation Network
What is life in Canberra?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Business Canberra
How do we make it easy for business to start, grow, employ and thrive?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Caring Canberra
How do we make Canberra the most inclusive city in Australia?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Data as Art
Awarded to the team who creates the most original piece of art using ACT Government data
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
First Hackers
Awarded to the best project from a team of first-time hackers
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Future Canberra
What does a sustainable, resilient and liveable Canberra look like – and what do we need to do to make that happen?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Healthy Canberra
How do we keep our city, and our people, healthy?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
My Canberra
How do I learn about, and connect with, my city, my suburb or my neighbourhood?
Go to Challenge | 13 teams have entered this challenge.
Quirky Canberra
Awarded to the team who uses data to highlight the quirkiest facts about Canberra that changes people’s perceptions of the city
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
Story telling with data
Awarded to the team who use data to tell the most compelling story about Canberra
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
New South Wales
Chatbots are the Future
How can we effectively engage with open data using Chatbots?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Data4Good
How can open data be used to make a social impact, contributing to the betterment of society? How can we improve prospects for children, and education, using open data? What sort of impact can be made on homelessness, mental health outcomes, or the environment, using open data?
Go to Challenge | 19 teams have entered this challenge.
SEED - Open Data with a Purpose
We are seeking to challenge the status quo. Moving from open data as a bi-product of government business, to active management of open data to better support reuse and innovation – hence open data with a purpose. To achieve this we want to trigger a conversation between developers and the data custodians.
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Spatial data challenge
How can spatial data be leveraged to provide the best community outcome? How can this mapping data be used to deliver value to the people of NSW?
Go to Challenge | 14 teams have entered this challenge.
Transforming Ultimo
How can Ultimo transform sustainably into an entrepreneurial/innovation precinct? How can we determine what support entrepreneurs need to succeed?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Urban Heat Challenge
How might we better use this data to communicate the urban heat challenges of Parramatta, and how might we improve on this in Parramatta LGA during summer?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
What do you want from government data challenge?
How should NSW government best provide data to the developer community? Show how our data can be made more usable for developers. What quality or format or standardisation issues does government need to fix or to consider? What developer community needs does the government need to support better?
Go to Challenge | 13 teams have entered this challenge.
Northern Territory
Best of Alice Springs
Best team out of Desert Knowledge Australia event in Alice Springs
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Best of Darwin
Best team out of Darwin Innovation Hub event in Darwin
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Business Possible
How to make business boom in the NT?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Connecting the health and fitness community in the CBD
Who needs to get fit? All of us! Darwin has many fitness enthusiasts who use the city and its various parks and equipment to complement their activities. City of Darwin believes technology and innovation can support our community to stay active throughout the year.
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Innovating parking in Darwin City
Parking in Darwin city is a hot topic! How do we find the balance between providing parking for workers, visitors and city residents? How can smart data help with parking, or encouraging other, greener modes of transport and access into the city?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Make Darwin the coolest city around
Both locals and visitors have many reasons to love Darwin, and a big reason being for its tropical weather. The Darwin climate is perfect for engaging in recreational activities on the water and in the outback. However, this same weather makes it difficult to enjoy visits into the Darwin CBD.
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
New Engaging Ways to connect to upcoming NTG Open Data Portal
The NTG is building a traditional open data portal, but how can it be used to its fullest potential?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Renewable Renters
How can we enable renters in Alice Springs to access the benefits of rooftop solar (clean energy, reduced power bills), like their home-owning peers?
Go to Challenge | 2 teams have entered this challenge.
The Energy Source
What are the most effective ways of helping Alice residents to understand, and care, where their energy comes from?
Go to Challenge | 1 team has entered this challenge.
You're Not Alone: Teen Health Challenge
How can teens and youth in the Northern Territory seek and become aware of the availability of health services?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
You're Not Approved: Aged Care Challenge
How can the elderly opting to stay and 'grow old at home', and their service providers, better reach, ensure trust, and be served/serve them in urban or remote places?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Queensland
Best use of Gold Coast Data
Best use of Gold Coast Data
Go to Challenge | 13 teams have entered this challenge.
Community Disaster Challenge
How might we understand what makes communities strong in disasters?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Connected Communities Challenge
How can we help older Queenslanders to stay connected to the community to continue to live a fulfilling life?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
Government Services Challenge
How might we better understand citizens' transaction preference and behaviours to make Queensland Government services easier to use?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Immigration Challenge
How might we tell the stories of immigration to Queensland to learn from the past and inform the future?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Indigenous Language for Youth
How can we work with Indigenous communities promoting languages and culture in a fun, engaging and playful way while being respectful to the culture?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Litter Challenge
How might we prevent littering of fast food packaging?
Go to Challenge | 16 teams have entered this challenge.
Most Commercially Viable Project
Most Commercially Viable Project
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
Out of the Box - New take on data for regional development
Use an existing data set outside its normal context to both display and encourage innovate solutions to regional problems and promote and foster regional economic development.
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Science Data Challenge
How might we make discovering and understanding scientific data for a location possible?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Sunshine Coast Commercialisation
How to make business boom on the Sunshine Coast?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Sunshine Coast Community
How can we raise the social capital of the Sunshine Coast?
Go to Challenge | 14 teams have entered this challenge.
Sunshine Coast Sustainability
How can we preserve our great Sunshine Coast for the next generation?
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
Tourism Jobs Challenge
How might we determine the future tourism job needs for Queensland?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
South Australia
Better Services - Citizens at the Centre
How can we provide better services to South Australian citizens and businesses?
Go to Challenge | 17 teams have entered this challenge.
City of Adelaide – the place to live work and play
How can data show the world that Adelaide is the place to live, work and play?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
Emergency Planning and Response
How can we better plan and respond to emergencies?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Improving Response
Best entry that assists CFS planning for and responding to incidents.
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Lower Costs - Improving the Lives of South Australians
How can we improve the lives of South Australians by lowering costs?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
More Jobs - Empowering South Australia
How can we create South Australian growth?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
New Insights into Data
How can Department for Education (SA) data be used to create innovative and new views of education-related information for South Australia? What new insights can we find by visualising Department for Education data in new ways?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
New Insights into Data (Youth)
How can Department for Education (SA) data be used to create innovative and new views of education-related information for South Australia? What new insights can we find by visualising Department for Education data in new ways?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Visualising Department for Education (SA) Data
What information can be learned from the Department for Education datasets showing the location of school zones in South Australia, and the enrolments in schools and preschools? How can people learn from this data, when it's presented in new ways? How can this data be creatively presented, or combined with new data for new insights?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Your Friendly Council
How can councils collaborate and use information to deliver better services to communities across South Australia?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Tasmania
Best use of Local Council Data
How can we best utilise Local Council data.
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Best use of Tasmanian Heritage Data
How can we use datasets that focus on Tasmanian Heritage data to highlight Tasmania's
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Best use of Tasmanian Spatial Data Challenge
How can we use a Tasmanian spatial data to improve Tasmanian residents lives on a daily basis.
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Most Commercial Potential
How can we showcase Tasmanian Data, and create something that could go on to be Commercial success.
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Most outstanding Tasmanian Benefit
How can we use data to benefit residents of the state.
Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.
Victoria
Activate Melbourne - A Prosperous City
This challenge aims to simplify the steps taken to decide where a new business could be located, or where there is underutilised space in the city.
Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.
Ballarat Open Innovation Challenge
Innovation comes through freedom and autonomy. How can we combine world data with Ballarat data to make something more?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Can you beat a scammer at innovation?
How can different tools improve scam prevention?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Casey Movers and Shakers Award
How can we better target investment into road safety and network improvements in the City of Casey?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
Growing Wyndham
This challenge aims to develop innovative new ideas to help plan for Wyndham as a growing city. Winning entry will be a best concept/product that is useful for the people of Wyndham.
Go to Challenge | 15 teams have entered this challenge.
Helping the community realise we’re in their corner!
Local Government has lots of data, so how can we utilise the data we have, and the open data out there to tell the story of what we do, how we do it so well, and how this benefits the community, in ways that constituents will receive and understand?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Innovation space - A City Planning for Growth
This challenge aims to showcase innovative new ways the city’s public space can be utilised and reimagined.
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
My (Liveable) Victoria
Using the data available on Data Vic and My Victoria, how might well-being be represented and measured in Victoria?
Go to Challenge | 17 teams have entered this challenge.
My (re-cycled) Victoria
How might Victoria lead the way in how Australians recycle their waste through local initiatives that monitor waste outputs and drive initiatives to re-use/re-purpose recyclable materials?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
My Victoria: Supporting small business making big decisions
Where are the best places for certain business types to be based?
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
Navigating construction disruption - A City For People
This challenge aims to ease the ability for people to plan and navigate walking routes through the city.
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Play Melbourne - A Creative City
This challenge aims to showcase Melbourne’s unique history and how the city’s landscape and iconic locations have changed over time.
Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.
Right 2 The Night
How can we help people know *the good, the bad, and the ugly* about public spaces?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Telling Stories with Data(.Vic)
Accessing any of the datasets on data.vic, this challenge asks participants to extract and tell stories from data. Alternatively how might we facilitate citizens’ own inquiries and investigations via the Victorian Government Open Data Portal?
Go to Challenge | 21 teams have entered this challenge.
Victorian Multicultural Atlas
How can we leverage mobile technology and free Wi-Fi to present point of interest data alongside immersive information to help citizens from non-English speaking backgrounds navigate their local environments and learn about the rich history of Victorian public spaces?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Western Australia
Lifestyle living
How can the economic and lifestyle advantages of working and living in regional centres be used to encourage urban people to consider moving to the regions?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Most creative use of WA data award
This challenge aims to champion the creative use of Western Australian data.
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Most innovative award
This an open challenge to recognise the use of data in an innovative way that was unexpected and challenges the common use of data
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
People in motion
How can we bring public and privately provided travel, lifestyle and leisure activities information together easily in a way that is easy to use and can help everyone find the information relevant to them for events at our venues.
Go to Challenge | 2 teams have entered this challenge.
Tech for Top Tourism
How can data and digital technology be used in tourism to help create jobs and business opportunities in regional areas?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.