Sam Shapley 🇬🇧

The Rebooting State Capacity Hackathon is complete! SoTA’s developers, engineers, researchers and technologists worked alongside civil servants to build solutions to critical government challenges this past weekend. Kicking off with interactive sessions led by @PalantirTech and @PUBLIC_Team, there was a huge amount of energy dedicated to unlocking progress and leveraging tech to boost state capacity. Brilliant testimonials from frontline operators who tried out the prototypes, and now meetings being booked across UK government to discuss next steps… Congratulations to the winners: 1. Treasury Busters (£1,000) - Single source of truth to build and approve/reject business cases for major infrastructure projects in months, not decades. 2. DVSA Reimagined (£500) - Streamlined process for most young people’s first touchpoint with the government, getting their driving licenses. 3. A1 Voice (£250) - Smart voice-mailbox for NHS hospitals, managing the over 10,000 phone calls per day to clinical departments. And to the winners of the @BasisCapitalLtd Prize (another £1,000) for Outcompeting the Government: A1 Voice again, who managed to engage 17 departments across 6 trusts! Some honourable mentions: - SCYLLA - Remote seabed sensing for critical undersea infrastructure using backscatter - Hacknee - Collective intelligence for local council decision-making via prediction markets - Fighting Crime, One Query at a Time - Automated analysis and reporting to democratise access to crime data - Pranav - Visual odometry for mapping GPS-denied environments - Seaguard - Small-vessel maritime detection using computer vision Thanks to our partners for Rebooting State Capacity: @10DowningStreet, @i_dot_ai, @delian_ai, @BasisCapitalLtd, @PalantirTech, @elevenlabs, @PUBLIC_Team, and SCOPE, along with all the departments, agencies, and individual civil servants who provided challenges as a foundation for the hackathon.