Annex A: OneMap IdeaWorks! Factsheet
About OneMap Ideaworks!
- OneMap IdeaWorks! was a three-month campaign that brought together technologists, data scientists and community organisations to foster co-development of geospatial solutions and analytics to help overcome challenges faced by communities through the use of the new OneMap and open geospatial data, in support of the Smart Nation initiative. Challenges were grouped into the following categories: Community, social services, environment, health, transport and heritage.
- The series of events for OneMap IdeaWorks! were:
Date |
Event |
Activity |
20 Jul 2017 |
IdeaWorks! Kick-off |
Gather challenge statements from community partners |
Registration for technologists and data scientists |
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2 Aug 2017 |
IdeaWorks! Meet up 1 |
Match-making participating teams with challenge statements and community partners |
11 – 25 Aug 2017 |
Tech Workshops |
Conduct OneMap APIs, open source and geospatial training |
18 Sep 2017 |
IdeaWorks! Meet up 2 |
Preview solutions and mid-point check |
9 Oct 2017 |
IdeaWorks! Judging |
Teams present solutions for judging |
12 Oct 2017 |
IdeaWorks! Goal |
Showcase all entries & prize presentation |
- There are 2 categories for the Challenge – the School Category for students up to undergraduate level and the Open Category for the public, technologists and data scientists of all ages.
- The prizes for each category are as follow;
School Category |
Open Category |
1st Prize – $3,000; $5000 worth of AWS* credits |
1st Prize – $3,000; $5000 worth of AWS credits |
2nd Prize – $2,000; $3000 worth of AWS credits |
2nd Prize – $2,000; $3000 worth of AWS credits |
3rd Prize – $1,000; $2000 worth of AWS credits |
3rd Prize – $1,000; $2000 worth of AWS credits |
Most Innovative Award – $300; $1000 worth of AWS credits |
Most Innovative Award – $300; $1000 worth of AWS credits |
*AWS refers to Amazon Web Services
- The 3rd prize winners and Most Innovative Award winners were decided during the preliminary judging held on 9 October 2017.
- Solutions can be developed in the form of mobile, web or analytics applications. The evaluation criteria include impact (40%), originality (30%) and sustainability (30%).
- The judges for the Preliminary Judging were:
|
School Category |
Open Category |
1 |
Mr James Liu – Amazon Web Services |
Mr Lee Chit Boon - Nanyang Polytechnic |
2 |
Mr Kelvin Tan - NUS Enterprise |
Mr Teh Chong Mien – StarHub Ltd |
3 |
Mr Shanmugam Ganeshkumar - GeoIcon |
Mr Sean Yang - Esri Singapore |
- The judges for the Final Judging (held on 12 October 2017) are:
1 |
Dr Chong Yoke Sin – Chief Enterprise Business Group, Starhub |
2 |
Mr Loh Lik Peng – Found & Owner, Unlisted Collection |
3 |
Ms Margaret Goh – Former Group Managing Director, GuocoLand |
- The partners for OneMap IdeaWorks! are:
A) Community Partners |
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1 |
Asian Women Welfare Association (AWWA) |
2 |
Causes for Animals Singapore |
3 |
Dignity Kitchen |
4 |
Focus on the Family Singapore |
5 |
Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital |
6 |
Nature Society |
7 |
Pasir Ris-Punggol Grassroots |
8 |
Samaritans of Singapore |
9 |
Singapore Children’s Society |
10 |
Singapore Heart Foundation |
11 |
Singapore Kindness Movement |
12 |
Singapore National Stroke Association |
13 |
Ulu Pandan Grassroots Organisations |
14 |
Very Special Arts Singapore Ltd |
B) Agency Partners |
|
1 |
Infocomm Media Development Authority |
2 |
Land Transport Authority |
3 |
Ministry of Education |
4 |
Ministry of Law |
5 |
Ministry of Social and Family Development |
6 |
National Council of Social Service |
7 |
National Heritage Board |
8 |
SG Enable |
C) Technology & Analytics Partners |
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1 |
Nanyang Polytechnic |
2 |
NUS Enterprise |
3 |
Padang & Co |
4 |
SMU - Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC) |
5 |
TechinAsia |
6 |
TechLadies |
D) Content Partners |
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S/N |
Company’s Name |
Provided |
URL |
1 |
Amazon Web Services |
Cloud hosting credits |
https://aws.amazon.com/ |
2 |
CARTO |
CARTO Builder and APIs |
https://carto.com/ |
3 |
Esri Singapore |
Geospatial training |
esrisingapore.com.sg |
4 |
GeoIcon |
Open source training |
www.geoicon.com |
5 |
Lotadata |
Situational Information |
lotadata.com |
6 |
Mapillary |
Street-level imagery |
www.mapillary.com |
7 |
Planet |
Satellite Imagery |
www.planet.com |
8 |
SpaceTime Technology |
Satellite Imagery |
www.spacetime-tech.com |
9 |
Starhub Ltd |
Anonymised analytics data |
www.starhub.com |
- In addition to the content provided by the Content Partners, some 300 sets of open geospatial data were provided for use in OneMap IdeaWorks!. These are broadly categorised into:
- Application Programming Interface (API) such as routing and base maps
- Data layers such as eldercare, childcare services and healthier eateries