Challenges for Competition 2020
Aotearoa - New Zealand
Australia
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
International
Awareness, understanding and respect – How can Open Data help the #BLM movement?
The Black Lives Matter (#BLM) movement is not new, neither are racial injustices. However, in 2020 a series of racially motivated deaths, brutality and profiling in the US sent shockwaves around the world. Over 15 Million people took to the streets around the world to protest, and demand change. What can Open Government Data do to help the movement?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Caring for the Aged in COVID Times
How can we reimagine the aged care experience
Go to Challenge | 18 teams have entered this challenge.
Identifying government investment for enhancing community safety
How can governments apply resources so as to proactively address social issues before they escalate and require reactive interventions (e.g. social work, law enforcement etc.)?
Go to Challenge | 16 teams have entered this challenge.
Markets for recycled organic products made from food and garden organics
Food waste occurs from the farm to restaurants to households. When nutrients and carbon are buried in landfill, there is significant impact on the environment and public health through greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, biodiversity loss and resource depletion. How might we support the case for processing food waste into recycled organic products?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Science Tasker
How might we harness the power of the everyday citizen to conduct ongoing scientific research which has been hindered by constraints on travel due to COVID-19
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Aotearoa - New Zealand
Connecting through Kōrero
How can we use data so that everyone can feel the power of connection through kōrero?
Go to Challenge | 2 teams have entered this challenge.
Day Tripper
How can we encourage visits to your favourite part of our paradise?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Getting Around
How can we move towards being a more accessible country?
Go to Challenge | 2 teams have entered this challenge.
Keep it Out, Stamp it Out, Manage it, or Recover from it
How might we create a hack that could help New Zealand Keep It Out, Stamp It Out, Manage It, or Recover From a pandemic?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Learn to be Green
Because of the lockdowns the world became a cleaner place - moving forward how do we work towards keeping it like this?
Go to Challenge | 1 team has entered this challenge.
Making the most of your KiwiSaver
How can we make Financial Literacy fun whilst learning about making the most of your KiwiSaver?
Go to Challenge | 1 team has entered this challenge.
Rail vs Roading
Rail vs Roading: which is more beneficial to communities and how do you prove it?
Go to Challenge | 0 teams have entered this challenge.
Responding to the next regional, country or world emergency
How can we better respond to the next regional, country or world emergency by leveraging emerging technologies and the plethora of government datasets available?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Thinking Outside the Box
This challenge is about showing your artistic side. Use data to create something artistic which fits into any of the 2020 GovHack Themes
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Australia
Assisting job seekers to take advantage of digital employment services
How might we use our de-identified data on job seekers, and other data that are publicly available, to discover new opportunities for job seekers to best use digital employment services.
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Connecting our community in an emergency with mobile messaging
How can our local leaders use mobile messaging to connect with citizens in a safe, reliable, and effective way for emergency communications?
Go to Challenge | 16 teams have entered this challenge.
Data-driven decisions for improved disaster planning, management or recovery
How might we equip decision makers with a data driven tool to support their communities in the face of climate change and natural disasters.
Go to Challenge | 15 teams have entered this challenge.
Data Driven IoT Insights for sustainable communities
How can data from connected devices on the wireless Internet of Things (IoT) network be used to make our community spaces - our homes, towns, cities or region - more efficient and sustainable?
Go to Challenge | 14 teams have entered this challenge.
Find hidden gems within COVID-19 lockdown
The new restrictions on movement in Melbourne have caused increased stress for Victorians. How can we use currently available datasets to show our fellow Australians what is already available for their quality of life within their 5km radius?
Go to Challenge | 13 teams have entered this challenge.
Industry assistance during COVID-19
How can we help identify and assist people in industries most affected by COVID-19?
Go to Challenge | 15 teams have entered this challenge.
The language of leadership
In times of crisis words can inspire and unite us, but they can also provoke division and conflict. How has the language of Australia’s leaders changed over time? How can we represent these changes in public discourse within a historical timeline?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Track and trace: help end plastic waste
Plastics contaminate Australia’s lands and seas, and challenge our industries, communities and decision makers with an exponentially growing problem. How might we enable and empower Australians to help de-plasticise our country and report plastic waste in our environment for a healthier future.
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Withdrawing super during COVID-19
How do people understand and prepare for their long term financial needs after withdrawing their superannuation during COVID-19?
Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.
Australian Capital Territory
Canberra Bouncing Back – a resilient City
How can we use data to help Canberra recover from the bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic and foster a city that is resilient against future disruptions?
Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.
Canberra Bouncing Back - Better real time transport data for Canberra
Transport Canberra is responsible for administering both the ACTs bus and light rail services. One challenge is that the Real Time Passenger Information System (RTPIS) on buses (NXTBUS) was established in 2011, while the Light Rail RTPIS was introduced in 2019. The challenge of delivering an integrated transport network is diverse, but the data challenge that presents is that the NXTBUS system produces a SIRI standard and the Light Rail system produces a newer GTFS-R feed.
Go to Challenge | 1 team has entered this challenge.
Canberra Bouncing Back - First Hacker
How can we use data to help Canberra recover from the bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic and foster a city that is resilient against future disruptions?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Canberra Bouncing Back - Youth Hacker
How can we use data to help Canberra recover from the bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic and foster a city that is resilient against future disruptions?
Go to Challenge | 0 teams have entered this challenge.
Community growth and recovery
Local economies, particularly the hospitality and tourism sectors, have been hit hard this year with the bushfires and the effects of COVID-19. These challenges have a far reaching impact on our local communities. How might we help communities recover by encouraging people to engage safely with local businesses?
Go to Challenge | 14 teams have entered this challenge.
New South Wales
Engaging communities in hazard reporting & safety
How might we better prepare & deal with natural disasters in Australia?
Go to Challenge | 18 teams have entered this challenge.
Improving government services with open data
How can we improve government services by using open government data?
Go to Challenge | 14 teams have entered this challenge.
Re-energising our city centre during the COVID-19 pandemic
In the midst of, and following, the COVID-19 pandemic, how can Liverpool City Council and the community use data to access the right information and tools to create a vibrant Liverpool city centre where people feel safe and the local economy can grow and prosper?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Using Liquor & Gaming data to provide information to customers
How can Liquor & Gaming NSW data be used to provide information to customers?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Queensland
Bushfire Ready
What can we do to prevent or prepare for bushfires?
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
Government Spending
What can we learn from government spending data?
Go to Challenge | 2 teams have entered this challenge.
Pandemic Survival
Help us survive a pandemic!
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Small Business and Tourism
Small business and the tourism industry need your help to survive! How can we get them back on track?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Understanding the impact of climate change on extreme weather events on the Sunshine Coast
From bushfires to rain and flooding, weather events are increasing in number and strength due to climate change. How might we provide policy advisors and researchers with the keys to communicate the increasing risks and drive change in government policy and public behaviour?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
South Australia
Economic recovery, jobs and livelihoods in SA
Supply chains are the entire process of producing a good or service, from sourcing raw materials to distributing the final product to market. How can we contribute to SA's economic resilience by focusing on the challenges and opportunities presented by disruptions to supply chains?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Predicting unusual and unexpected surges in demand for health services
How can publicly available data be used to predict unusual and unexpected surges in demand for health services that could be avoided and identify opportunities to intervene?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Tasmania
Best Use of Tasmanian Heritage Data (GoHack 2020)
How can we use data to showcase Tasmania’s history, people and stories?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Best Use of Tasmanian Spatial Data (GovHack 2020)
How can you use Tasmanian spatial data to improve life for Tasmanian residents or businesses?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Most Outstanding Tasmanian Benefit (GovHack 2020)
How can we use Open Data to most benefit residents of Tasmania?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Most Tasmanian Commercial Benefit (GovHack 2020)
How can we use Tasmanian Data to create something that could be an economic success?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Open challenge to benefit the greater Launceston community
How can your idea benefit the community of Launceston? This is an open challenge so come up with something creative.
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Rethinking mobility for a more accessible Hobart
Micromobility has the potential to reduce Hobart’s congestion. Given Hobart’s topography and location of residential and retail precincts, our challenge is to understand which micromobility vehicles, routes and nodes would be beneficial to making the city quicker to navigate for the largest number of vehicle types and transport users.
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Smart lighting for efficiency and dark skies in Hobart
Cities spend millions every year lighting their streets. In an era of efficiency and emissions reductions there are smarter ways to maintain safety without lighting empty streets. We have the data. We want big ideas.
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Victoria
Citizen Science
How might we create a citizen science experiment to support a better understanding of what is happening in the State of Victoria?
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
COVID-19 Economic / Social Recovery
How might we use data to assist our understanding of what a post-COVID-19 Victoria may look like?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
Learning from the Past
How might we use data assets from Victoria and other jurisdictions to better understand bushfire events and their effects on communities and the environment?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Proactively reducing rubbish and pollution in our waterways
When rubbish and pollutants enter our waterways, it harms our aquatic life and spoils the amenity of our community spaces. How can we use open data to proactively reduce rubbish and common pollutants from entering our waterways so that we protect our natural environment and keep our rivers and creeks clean today, so that we can enjoy them tomorrow?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Western Australia
Plan your vote. Here’s how.
‘Plan your way to vote’ – how can we assist voters to identify ways of voting that are convenient for them and match their circumstances?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.