Innovation Tag: Challenges and Awards

Brazilian Challenges Platform (PLataforma Desafios) is an initiative of the Government Innovation Division, GNova, of the National School of Public Administration (Enap), which offers help to public managers to innovate together with society, taking advantage of collective intelligence to reduce the insecurities of the innovation process and increase the chances of success. The Challenges Platform recognises, rewards and disseminates innovative solutions, through a process similar to…

INDECOPI has implemented a new project called “Voluntary Removal of Regulatory Barriers to Competition” based on the use of social norms in official documents and data dashboards to monitor the removal of bureaucratic barriers across the country. Through this, civil servants compare their performance in eliminating barriers with their peers and adapt their behavior towards high-quality regulation.

First platform in the industry which support standalone and integrated workflow solution for any inspection,which leads to increased efficiency,security,and accuracy of inspection operations through virtual-inspection capability that enables the inspection teams to work remotely and reduce the need for field visits and addresses some pain points which includes inconsistency in quality,time consumption and resource management.stakeholders include Inspectors, Schedulers ,System admin,inspected org

Nova Scotia has 21 Community Transportation Operators serving mainly vulnerable populations in rural areas. The CTOs were unable to feasibly procure a common dispatch and scheduling solution that met their needs, leaving them with inefficiencies and inability to meet growing needs. The Outpost for Public Sector Innovation designed a new approach to co-designing and procuring solutions to complex challenges. Together with stakeholders, partners and vendors, two viable solutions were developed.

Gov Buys Innovation is a modern version of public procurement, axed on the active search for innovative solutions available on the market. By reconsidering the way of interaction between the public and the private sector, we aspire to transform public entities into pioneers for new creative ideas, modernising countries in the benefit of private companies and all citizens.

Project Sampoorna, successfully implemented in Bongaigaon district of Assam, is a model that can be easily implemented anywhere in reducing child malnutrition. This project has resulted in reduction of malnutrition in children by 95.6 % within 1 year in Bongaigaon district using very less economic investment. It is an initiative for tackling SAM and MAM by using Weight for Height growth chart & Empowering Mothers by employing Buddy Mother concept along with community participation.

Officina is a lab for innovation in the public sector whose main objective is to catalyse the energy of young talents by offering them a transformative training programme. Officina was developed to address a triple urgency: future decision makers not perceiving the public sector as an attractive workplace; the public sector having high average age workforce and lack of innovative approaches; society at large needing a more modern and appealing public sector in this key historical moment.

The National Agency of Research and Development has piloted a new program, called ‘Exploration Projects’, that allows funding of disruptive, unconventional, and high novelty science and research in all areas of knowledge. The program goals are to promote this type of science, propose the exploration of new and unconventional perspectives, methodologies, theories, and technologies, with the potential for significant reward to its discipline, field of knowledge, as well as society.

Impact Canada Challenges have incentivized innovative solutions in the areas of climate action, housing, food, and health. A quasi-experimental impact assessment approach uses tax data (available in most countries) to assess the effectiveness of Challenges by profiling Challenge participants and comparing business performance indicators of Challenge participants vs. non-participants. Requiring only the participant’s business number, this is a no burden, comparative, long-term measurement plan.

Bias Buccaneers is the first non-profit algorithmic bias bounty organization. We organize competitions to engage a broad global community in identifying and fixing ethical problems in the algorithms all companies use. The long term vision of Bias Buccaneers is to create global expertise, standards, and verifiable talent in a nascent, but rapidly growing, field.