City Challenge Program

A core part of the UTA mission is to help its members come together to deliver innovative city services that improve the lives of citizens. As part of that mission UTA has developed the City Challenge Program: cities identify an area that they wish to address and solicit help from UTA members. The UTA matchmaking facility then works to bring together a group of partners to develop a PoC to meet the city need.

City Challenges

Fujisawa City, Japan: Better use city park data to improve the management of city parks.
- Fujisawa city in Japan has developed a park reporting app used by city staff and some citizen groups. It allows them to better gather data on the cities 350+ parks. With this infrastructure in place it is requesting help to apply advanced Data Science techniques to analysing the new data and deriving valuable insights that will improve the management of the city parks and the service it provides to local citizens.