Challenges for Competition 2023
Aotearoa New Zealand
Australia
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
International
Measuring Emissions – Where should we start? Standardising data for tracking, monitoring, and reporting emissions
Climate change is forcing governments and regulators to enforce stringent norms for businesses to reduce emissions and address environmental risks. There is no standard framework for reporting ESG and climate related risks, leading to non-uniform data. How can this issue be addressed to help organisations better report on their emissions?
Go to Challenge | 13 teams have entered this challenge.
Aotearoa New Zealand
Aotearoa Citizen Survey Actions
Best Solution to Citizen City Concerns
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Data-Driven Misinformation Detection
Detect disinformation
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Digital Twin Modelling
Best Digital Twin solution that enables community organisations to plan, manage, monitor and evaluate their environmental improvement initiatives
Go to Challenge | 2 teams have entered this challenge.
Disarming Disinformation: Leveraging Open Data for Truth and Trust
Combating disinformation
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Reducing carbon emissions in households
Build a platform that can help households in New Zealand reduce their carbon emissions. Food production, transportation among others are major contributors of emissions. Can you help New Zealand reach net-zero by 2050 and reduce emissions by 50% by 2030?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Australia
Best Creative Use of Data in Response to ESG
How can you showcase data in a creative manner to respond to ESG challenges? How can we present and visualise data to stimulate conversation and promote change?
Go to Challenge | 33 teams have entered this challenge.
Diversity in IP Rights System
Out of the top applicants for patents, trade marks and designs to IP Australia, how can we find out how many are female led, have female friendly hiring policies or otherwise have positive gender/sexual diversity policies, and what industries/technologies are they active in?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Exploring National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) Vet Data
What skills, training and qualifications do Australians already have that can support the transition from a fossil fuels-based to a clean energy-based economy? What are the gaps in skills, training and qualifications that may delay this transition, with a particular focus on the Gippsland (Vic), Hunter Valley (NSW), Central Queensland (Qld) and Collie (WA) regions?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Exploring relationships between industry and population in regional Australia
Regional liveability is influenced by the diversity and stability of local industry. People need employment to stay and be attracted to move to regional Australia. Businesses and industry adjust with market interest but how does this affect the local population – do they adjust too?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Finding potential donors to support families in need
How can we identify where families who might have second-hand baby and children's goods to donate live, and estimate the volume of goods that could be donated to families in need through organisations such as Roundabout?
Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.
Generative AI: Unleashing the Power of Open Data
Explore the potential of Generative AI in conjunction with Open Data to empower communities and foster positive social impact. This challenge invites participants to leverage Generative AI models to analyse and derive insights from Open Data sourced from government datasets. By combining the power of Generative AI with the wealth of Open Data available, participants can create innovative solutions that address real-world challenges and benefit communities.
Go to Challenge | 29 teams have entered this challenge.
Helping women succeed financially
How can financial outcomes for women be improved through increasing diversity and inclusion across industries?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Identify plausible domestic freight routes across different modes of transport
Determine the most efficient way of moving freight around Australia using average speed of trucks and trains. An intermodal train can load 100 to 150 shipping containers. Goods can only move between trucks and trains at seaports and intermodal terminals. Consider using Google Maps Places API to identify major manufacturers and distribution centres.
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Measuring and reducing carbon emissions from physical infrastructure assets
Build a platform / solution to raise awareness of the importance of decarbonisation and to provide resources to help people and businesses make changes to their lifestyles and practices. By enabling a data-driven, collaborative, and user-friendly platforms for decarbonisation, Australia can accelerate its journey to net zero emissions.
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Measuring freight performance across modes through universal metrics
Australia’s domestic freight demand has increased significantly over the last four decades, and continues to grow. With this growth, knowing what, where and how freight is moving is essential. Help the freight sector across government and industry to come up with ways to design metrics that are interoperable across all modes to measure performance.
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Using machine learning and generative AI to improve health outcomes
How can machine learning or generative AI be used to help Australians to live longer, healthier, happier lives?
Go to Challenge | 14 teams have entered this challenge.
Australian Capital Territory
Australian Consumer Energy Dashboard (ACED) - Putting the power in the hands of energy consumers
Australians are paying more than ever for their electricity. The Consumer Data Right (CDR) offers to empower Australian consumers with information and choice. Your challenge is to develop a consumer pricing democratisation solution, a geospatial visualisation portal that utilises the CDR to allow Australian consumers to pool their pricing data and inform each other of better deals.
Go to Challenge | 0 teams have entered this challenge.
Charging Electric Vehicles in the ACT
The ACT’s zero-emission vehicle strategy includes several incentives to purchase EVs, as well as a plan to expand the public charging network to 180 charging stations by 2025. To build this network of charging stations, it is important that government understands where the greatest need for chargers is across the territory. How can this be measured, and how can we assess the effectiveness of public EV chargers in Canberra?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
How Canberra has evolved; showcasing historical imagery
The ACT Government's ACTmapi visualises important geospatial data on the ACT. As an interactive tool, ACTMapi provides an opportunity to display data sources of Canberra’s: infrastructure, community facilities, and historical information. This challenge asks hackers to ‘stitch’ together historical datasets of aerial imagery prior to 2004 and showcase their importance from environmental to population trends.
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Making public archives more accessible
Online catalogues, like ACT Memory, provide information about government records and, where possible, provide copies of the records themselves. These records are generally in PDF or JPEG format. This makes the documents difficult to search for, access, and use. How might governments with record catalogues, like ACT Memory, solve this problem and make these rich sources of information more useful?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
New South Wales
Cost of Living Pressure NSW
Cost of living is key issue effecting many NSW citizens. What can data such as the rental bonds and fuel price data tell us about the impact and possible solutions?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
COVID’s lasting impact on education
What impact has COVID had on student educational outcomes (for example retention/enrolment rates, HSC completions and more)? What lessons can we learn to minimise the impact on education for future pandemics?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Cultural Coasts: Empowering Aboriginal site protection amidst climate change
As climate change threatens our precious coastal areas, ancient Aboriginal cultural sites are being damaged and pose the very real risk of losing them forever. How do we use climate data to protect them and help empower communities to preserve these irreplaceable cultural landmarks?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Discover Heritage: Unravel your local stories
Ignite a passion for heritage and bridge the gap between people and their cultural roots. How can the community discover the untold stories of their local heritage and understand its universal value. How can we create lasting impact by preserving traditions, building community bonds, and boosting local economies through heritage tourism.
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
Enhancing heritage inventory: Bridging the knowledge gap
Knowledge is power. The State Heritage Inventory contains data gaps that impact the effective management and protection of our irreplaceable heritage items and Aboriginal cultural sites. How can open-source data enhance the inventory and deliver better outcomes for our state heritage, Aboriginal cultural heritage and our community?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Getting home wherever you live.
Road traumas are devastating for school communities. How might data help develop localised solutions to reduce these rates?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Northern Territory
Staying one step ahead
How might we use open data to provide insights, identify online intervention points and/or possible digital solutions that could prevent people from falling for any type of online scam, whether that be at home or at work?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Supporting Territory Middle School students towards digital careers
How can the Northern Territory Government support more Territory Middle School students towards digital careers?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Using AI to better connect Northern Territory Science with the community
How can the Northern Territory Government use AI to better compile and report to the community the NT-based advances in Science and Technology?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Queensland
Brisbane City Community Preparedness
How can we use open and public data to understand the community’s level of preparedness for disruption to inform Council’s response and recovery efforts?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Brisbane City Experience
How can you use open data and creativity to enhance the Brisbane City experience?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Driving a better way forward
Unitywater travels over 3.9 million kilometres each year maintaining water and wastewater services for our region. How might we use our vehicle data to benefit people, planet and productivity in the future? How might we improve our commitment to environmental sustainability, simplified work practices and people safety using vehicle data?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Governance - Better use of data
How can we better utilise population data of urban flying-fox roosts to improve understanding of their movement patterns and promote strategic conservation efforts and inform management responses to reduce human/wildlife conflict?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Moreton Bay being resilient in times of uncertainty (QLD)
How might council be able to utilise our open datasets to assist the community during climate change and significant weather events? We have published datasets that have been built for command centres during adverse weather conditions. What opportunities also exist for these datasets to be used to enable and protect our community during periods of significant weather events?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Moreton Bay greening as we grow (QLD)
How might we harness the power of the everyday citizen to help protect our diverse flora and fauna as we grow our region; creating a diverse and flourishing planet for generations to come?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
South Australia
Addressing climate change and cost of living pressures for apartment dwellers and owners with shared renewables
Of South Australians living in apartments, townhouses and other shared buildings, how can we find out how many of them have the opportunity to support renewable energy?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Amp up SA: Forecasting Electric Transport for Grid Resilience
How might we prepare our state for the growing electrification of the transport sector?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Highlight the diversity of South Australia's tourism product through gamification
How can we apply gamification to engage and educate young (South) Australians about South Australia's diverse tourism product offer and through this, influence key decision makers in their household to discover more of South Australia?
Go to Challenge | 14 teams have entered this challenge.
Increase the appeal of a career in the tourism and hospitality sector
How can we use data and/or technology to engage and attract more young South Australians to pursue a career in the Tourism and Hospitality sector?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Increase visitor expenditure through Smart Tourism
How can we use digital technology to "upsell" to visitors to South Australia by uncovering additional attractions and experiences and/or extending their stay?
Go to Challenge | 16 teams have entered this challenge.
Tasmania
Towards a zero emissions and resilient Hobart
Hobart and our region are already experiencing the impacts of climate change. We seek creative and innovative approaches that leverage open data to help the community better understand and communicate climate risk, enable community-wide participation in action and solutions, and accelerate our transition towards a zero emissions and resilient city.
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Using open data to support Tasmanians
Rises in the cost of food, rent, and petrol have caused Tasmanians to draw on accumulated savings or term deposits to manage expenses. How can we use open data to identify areas where government support would be most impactful to support Tasmanians with the rising costs of living?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Victoria
Analysing recycling trends over the last 20 years to predict future recycling behaviour
Conduct analysis to understand and identify trends in recycling practices over the past 20 years. The objective of the challenge is to gain insights from recycling rates, material compositions, geographic variations and other factors influencing recycling behaviour.
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Explore the relationship between vehicle types and the uptake of EVs
The challenge is to analyse vehicle registration data and explore the relationship between vehicle types and the uptake of EVs. Identify and analyse factors that may influence the adoption of electric vehicles.
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
Remix the Archives using the PROV API
How might you use the PROV API to create a service that allows users to remix the archives for artistic endeavour?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
Tagging photographic images: showcasing the magnificent history of Victoria
How can we enable researchers to tag images of digitised records from photographic collections?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Western Australia
Getting out and about in WA... with a disability
How can we use data to uncover what events, local spaces, activities, and communities within WA are available to people with disabilities?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Using Open Data to Close the Gap
How can we improve the data and information sharing practices between governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations to Close the Gap?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.