Challenges for Competition 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand
Australia
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
International
Managing or repurposing Covid-19 waste
How might we help re-think, repurpose or rehandle present and future Covid-19 waste?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Aotearoa New Zealand
Best Creative Use of Data in Response to ESG (NZ)
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 | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Best utilisation of public transportation for climate impact
How can we use data to make buses to be an attractive transport option for citizens – to be more flexible, available when you need them, safer, more sustainable and efficient?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Community design for flood mitigation
How might we use data to identify and improve water management for our regions?
Go to Challenge | 1 team has entered this challenge.
Reduce waste dumped in our waterways
How can we use data to create actionable insights that reduce pollution around our city waterways, improve water quality, protect our sea life and positively impact the food chain?
Go to Challenge | 2 teams have entered this challenge.
Technology Literacy in a Digital First World
Connected digital technologies are rapidly changing the way we live, learn, and work. But digital literacy is an important challenge facing New Zealand leading to digital exclusion. How can we build a system which helps advance “Technology Literacy” in New Zealand to help advance our community equitably?
Go to Challenge | 2 teams have entered this challenge.
Australia
Best Creative Use of Data in Response to ESG (AU)
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 | 31 teams have entered this challenge.
Emissions: The Dark side of Buildings
How might we address the built environment which accounts for 40% of the world’s GHG emissions through data sets and smart technologies? How will the phenomenon of a hybrid “return to the workplace” impact how we use existing spaces and plans for developing new spaces? How do we create the right mix of brownfield and greenfield projects to optimise results of efforts?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Flood, fire and the future: the road to resilience
Help transport planners find and predict which roads will be blocked or damaged in the next flood or bushfire
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Helping Australia reach net zero emissions by 2050
Australia has a goal to reach net zero emissions by 2050. How can Australians use public spaces, including city landscapes to achieve these goals?
Go to Challenge | 18 teams have entered this challenge.
Small business performance indicators
How can we help small business owners to easily compare how their business is tracking across a range of performance indicators compared to other similar businesses?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
The 2021 Australian Census
How might we link the 2021 Census data with open data to highlight or solve a challenge Australians are facing
Go to Challenge | 24 teams have entered this challenge.
What’s going where?
Help transport planners find the detailed locations that different types of freight are coming from and going to
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Australian Capital Territory
Community wellbeing in the ACT
How should we measure and track the wellbeing of our community as a whole?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Discovering our region’s environment and biodiversity
How might ACT data encourage children and young people to appreciate and engage with Canberra’s environment and biodiversity?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Integrate Disparate Data Sources like a Palantir Engineer
When working with our customers worldwide, our most successful outcomes come from our ability to make sense out of high degrees of complexity. We think that leveraging our existing toolkits and performing data fusion in your projects will help you better solve the problems of GovHack 2022.
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
Pricing public transport
How might we price public transport to balance capacity supply and patronage demand?
Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.
New South Wales
Alternate transport
How can we make NSW a cycling-friendly state?
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
The NSW housing crisis
With the skyrocketing cost of living, how might we use open data to find affordable housing in the current rental and housing crisis?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Northern Territory
Cultural diversity in the workplace
How might we use open data to better encourage cultural diversity in the workplace?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Displacing Diesel
How might we use data and technology to displace all diesel in the Territory?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Ensuring the safety of our staff
How might we use data to support the health and safety of staff who are required to operate vehicles, machinery and other equipment at work?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
How can we beat Gamba Grass?
How can we reduce the risk of fire and damage caused by gamba grass to the natural environment, life, property and infrastructure?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
Jobs of the Future NT
How might we identify future jobs and skill shortages in the Northern Territory (NT) based on the NT economic plan and upcoming projects and investments? How might we identify employability skills needed to develop students to meet the future needs of the NT?
Go to Challenge | 1 team has entered this challenge.
Meeting short-term health needs outside of a hospital
How can we use available technologies to support people’s health needs and stay out of hospital?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Youth participation in STEM activities in the Northern Territory
How can we use open data to engage youth at schools or at a community level to increase the levels of interest in STEM careers?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Queensland
Digital Skills
How can we help Queenslanders keep up with the increasing demand for digital skills in the workforce?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Digitising your drinking water
Clean water is an essential service for our communities and has been identified as the ‘Blue Gold’ for the next generation. How might data be harnessed to influence people to reduce water consumption? How might monitoring and tracking water usage now help protect this valuable resource for future generations?
Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.
Environment
What can we do to ensure the sustainability of Queensland’s natural environment?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Moreton Bay greening as we grow
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 | 9 teams have entered this challenge.
South Australia
How can we utilise organic wastage in Barossa, Gawler, Light and Adelaide Plains region?
What are the opportunities to value add using organic wastage in Barossa, Gawler, Light and Adelaide Plains region and what infrastructure/facilities required to implement them?
Go to Challenge | 2 teams have entered this challenge.
Protecting South Australian growers from Fruit Fly
How might we use data to communicate where fruit fly are being detected so we can notify the right growers as quickly and accurately as possible?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Reducing climate impact through sustainable energy behaviours
How might we reduce climate impact through changes in energy sources, production, distribution and consumption
Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.
Re-imagining recycling for businesses in the City of Adelaide
How do we identify the best locations to implement a zero avoidable waste approach for businesses? How do we maximise the use of these locations so businesses feel empowered to waste less and recycle more?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Skills and Employment in Barossa, Gawler, Light and Adelaide Plains region
What are the required future skills sets for upcoming job opportunities in Barossa, Gawler, Light and Adelaide Plains areas?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Tasmania
Celebrating Tasmania’s achievements
How might we use open data to celebrate Tasmania’s achievements and ensure Tasmania remains front and centre during national conversations?
Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.
Flood Risk: Understanding the impact of climate change on extreme weather events in Hobart
Hobart, Tasmania is prone to extreme weather events, especially flash flooding. How can we better understand the risk of flooding and build a robust model to illustrate the increasing regularity and intensity of flooding? What would the impact of coincident events look like? How can we develop a collaborative flood warning and alert system for Hobart?
Go to Challenge | 7 teams have entered this challenge.
Victoria
Better use of data - Connecting addresses in datasets
Addresses in datasets are a complicated thing. For example, they may have typos and abbreviations, they might rely on the context of the dataset (is this Melbourne Australia, or Melbourne Florida), and they may be more or less specific. Given an address or dataset containing addresses, how can we discover useful connections with other datasets given a large corpus of potential information?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Skills Development - Life after School
How might we connect schools and students with their local community for learning life skills and for post school opportunities?
Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.
Water Quality - Gippsland Lakes
What is the data telling us about what drives water quality in the Gippsland Lakes?
Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.
Western Australia
A hydrogen economy
How can Western Australia leverage the benefits of boosting the hydrogen economy? Why is WA the best place to take advantage of hydrogen projects?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
Most outstanding benefit to the residents of Fremantle 2022
How can we use Open Data to most benefit residents of Fremantle?
Go to Challenge | 4 teams have entered this challenge.
What does a 2-3 degree temperature increase mean for risk and resilience in Fremantle?
How can we use open data help us to understand and plan for the impacts of climate change in Fremantle?
Go to Challenge | 1 team has entered this challenge.