Canberra Bouncing Back - Youth Hacker

The bushfires, hailstorm and COVID-19 pandemic have had economic, health and social impacts on our community. People have had to adjust the way they work, learn, play and connect with services and each other. Some of these changes will be long lasting - we may need additional community services, we may require different employment/skills, we may require different urban planning strategies and we may need different methods to move people and goods around our city.

Our Youth Hacker prize will be for the project that best shows how you’ve used data to build a picture of how Canberra can become a more resilient city and reduce the impact of future disruptions. The project will show a picture of Canberra in some or all of the following areas:

• Transport
• Health
• Community Services
• Employment and skills
• Environment and planning
• Digital Inclusion

Additional Information:

For example - What critical services are needed for the greater wellbeing and economic prosperity of our community? How can re-skilling people reduce impact of unemployment? What are the urban planning requirements for our CBD and suburbs? What is the impact on the environment as we return to our normal lives and how can we ensure the impact on the environment is sustainable? What infrastructure changes are required to support the way we work in the future and ensure people aren’t disadvantaged in a more digital city?