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Identify Smart Data use cases that utilise multiple datasets from sectors across the economy, and build prototypes, demonstrating their market feasibility and potential to deliver real-world benefits for consumers and businesses (pending implementation of Smart Data schemes).

The Department for Business & Trade, Challenge Works, the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Smart Data Foundry called on individuals, innovators, entrepreneurs, academia and civil society to join them in identifying innovative ways in which Smart Data could make a difference for consumers, small businesses and wider society.

Between 26 October and 8 December 2023 we ran an open call for cross-sector Smart Data use case ideas. We invited individuals and organisations to share their bold cross-sector use case ideas for a consumer-driven Smart Data economy. The most promising cross-sector use case ideas submitted in the open call were then selected by an expert panel and further defined with the help of expert input.

The Discovery Challenge culminated on Thursday 21 March 2024 at an event for the emerging Smart Data community. During the event, the teams behind the 14 most promising ideas pitched to an expert judging panel and Smart Data audience, and four teams were selected as the winners, sharing a prize pot of £20,000.