Des Chiffres et Des Jeunes (DCDJ) is a program led by Development Gateway (DG) and funded by the MCC-PEPFAR Data Collaboratives for Local Impact (DCLI) Program. DCLI and aims to empower individuals, communities, and organizations, including stakeholders in subnational areas, to use data to improve lives, contribute to ending HIV/AIDS, and help address local development needs and priorities. The DCDJ program aims to bolster the subnational supply and usage of data for citizens of Côte d’Ivoire, engage youth as champions of these services, and fuel innovation to address rising data and information needs.
West London Alliance (WLA) Councils required a detailed evidence base at a time of changing policy and external drivers. Town centres and out-of-centre retail clusters have been changed over time by economic, social, technological and environmental trends influencing how and why we visit these places. WLA Councils want to respond to policy changes and create thriving and resilient urban centres.
Grant for the Web, a new $100 million fund to benefit creators and promote innovation in web monetization, wished to support the operational and technology costs related to comprehensive tooling and platform innovation, and large-scale community activations.
The Mayor's Resilience Fund is the Mayor Sadiq Khan’s £1m innovation programme to support London’s businesses and community groups in their recovery from the coronavirus crisis, and to ensure they’re better prepared for future emergencies. The Activating High Streets Challenge aimed to create a data service that will aggregate multiple data sources related to vacant properties on high streets to enable the utilisation and occupation of empty spaces.
'Levelling up' was a political policy intended to reduce the imbalances, primarily economic, between areas and social groups across the United Kingdom. The 2020 Treasury spending review announced a £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund for interim capital investment in local infrastructure. Local authorities were ranked into three tiers by need, and invited to submit project bids by June 2021. The first round focused on transport projects, town centre and high street regeneration, and cultural investment.
As alternative air mobility systems emerge, deconflicting airspace becomes more challenging. The Connected Places Catapult commissioned research to discover what data sources exist, or need to exist, to support airspace design and decision-support, while ensuring compliance with regulatory, environmental, safety and social obligations? To what extent are these data and infrastructure – data structure and device architecture – interoperable through metadata standards and appropriate legislation, and how compatible are their licenses for commercial and regulatory accessibility?
