Colorado Smart Cities Alliance launches innovation challenge
Source: Smart Cities World
The Connected Colorado Challenge is inviting solutions for four specific problems faced by the US state, with innovators given an opportunity to collaborate directly with smart cities in Colorado.
The Colorado Smart Cities Alliance has launched the Connected Colorado (C²) Challenge to look for technology innovation that can address four specific problems faced by Colorado communities: housing stability, community resilience, safe streets and civic engagement.
Some of Colorado’s most innovative governments will collaboratively evaluate proposed solutions and select those that they believe may uniquely address the issue in their community.
Winners of the C² Challenge will have the opportunity to demonstrate their solution with at least one community in Colorado.
Procurement platform
The C² Challenge enables urban and rural communities to use a collaborative approach to explore, vet and implement regionally applicable solutions through an outcome-driven process. The challenge is managed by the non-profit alliance and is run through UrbanLeap, an innovative government procurement platform.
Through this open and competitive process, governments will have an opportunity to learn about the many different tools available to them in tackling complex challenges while exploring a new process for identifying potential solutions.
Companies and universities with an applicable solution are invited to submit a proposal by 5 August for a chance to work with Colorado jurisdictions to implement their next-generation solution in local communities.
“We hope the solutions that come through the challenge help improve Colorado’s quality of life, and that the process fosters smarter government across Colorado”