As part of GovTech Connect, we run a series of boot camps for start-ups aimed at identifying innovative solutions across European regions that address challenges regarding digital infrastructure, net-zero, health technology, and smart cities.
To define innovation challenges to be worked on in each GovTech Connect Boot Camp, we will host Challenge Definition Workshops for each of the four regions. These virtual and interactive workshops are a gathering of GovTech experts, EDIHs, and public officials from across the region, supported by collaboration tools to focus on identifying problem areas that could potentially benefit from tech-enabled, innovative solutions.
In March 2023 we hosted the first two GovTech Connect Workshops, to define the objectives and the challenge statements for the 2023 GovTech Connect boot camps.
Workshop 2: Digitisation of Public Services for Enhanced Civic Engagement, Accessibility, and Transparency (Southern Europe & Western Balkans) was hosted on March 21st from 12:00 to 13:30 online via Zoom.
The goal of this workshop was to produce a set of concrete challenge statements considering digital infrastructure in Southern Europe & the Western Balkans to which start-ups could apply to afterwards. Participants were provided with a list of challenge statements that they were then invited to analyse and prioritise through a poll conducted on Slido. Statements were carefully crafted by the project team based on insights and data collected during a research phase.
Read the report attached!