Sprints
Learn about sprints and how we tackle national challenges.
Sprints are 12-week product development cycles that bring together tech teams and collaborators to build public-facing digital products using open data.
Geo-Cohort
2018
Data and technology have the power to strengthen community resilience and ensure the public is prepared in events of natural disaster. In the Geo-Cohort sprint, tech teams including Bloomberg, Mapbox, Esri and many others developed digital products that allow governments to maintain local address data critical in catastrophic events, help the public take appropriate hazard preparedness actions, and amplify environmental stewardship efforts.
Helping Tribal, State, and Local Governments with Local Address Data Collection
Challenge:
Develop resources that help tribal, state, and local governments to create and maintain open address point data. These resources might include: • Tools that can be used in the field and in the office to collect, geocode, validate, maintain and share data • “Seed” data that can serve as a starting point for data collection and can be shared openly (address lists, address point data, parcel data, structure outlines) • Linkages to open data sharing platforms
Agency
U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Transportation
Target Audience
Tribal, state, and local governments.
Using Geospatial Data to Help People Prepare for Disasters
Challenge:
Create digital tools that use data to help individuals and community leaders gain a better understanding of national and community hazards and threats and enable the public to take appropriate preparedness actions.
Agency
Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Target Audience
Individuals ages 18-34 and influencers within communities, to include faith leaders, emergency managers, and leaders of civic organizations.
Harnessing Data and Leveraging Digital Tools to Combat the Opioid Crisis
Challenge:
Create digital tools and data sharing capabilities to support decisions across the broad range of stakeholders responding to the opioid crisis, such as public health, public safety, law enforcement, community groups, the private sector, and individuals.
Agency
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Target Audience
Physicians, hospitals (care providers); CMS, insurers, VA (payers); patients; researchers; public health professionals; State and Local Health Departments; Policy makers; Elected Officials, Law Enforcement
Identifying and Strengthening Civic Environmental Stewardship
Challenge:
Develop tools that visualize and provide access to the patterns, overlaps, and gaps in environmental stewardship efforts in order to identify local civic groups that support community quality of life and well-being, strengthen community resilience and emergency preparedness, and amplify positive outcomes.
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Target Audience
Public agencies, NGOs, designers, funders, researchers, students, neighborhood groups, and community organizers in locations TBD (may include NYC, Baltimore, San Juan, PR, and North Kona, Hawaii)