Government Funding for COVID-19 Digital Data Projects
Government Funding for COVID-19 Digital Data Projects
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have launched the Local Digital C-19 Challenge to respond to the need for digital and data-enabled approaches to council operations post-COVID-19.
Due to the time-sensitive nature of coronavirus/COVID-19 renewal, the MHCLG is taking a new approach with this special round in order to move things forward at pace and ensure outputs remain relevant. This is why this fund has specific thematic areas, a shortened timeline, and offers different funding options to ease the burden of procurement.
Applications are invited in three thematic areas:
Data and reporting
Community engagement
Developing new working practices.
Applications do not need to have a pure technology focus.
This challenge is open to local authorities in England only. Councils can apply for funding on their own – so they don’t have to find council partners as long as the outcome is relevant to, and usable by, other councils.
The programme is offering funding of up to £800,000 in total and councils can bid for up to £80,000 per project
The deadline for applications is 15 July 2020.
Selected projects will be announced the w/c 3 August 2020.
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