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      Community of ideas 2021

      Read some of the ideas submitted to the Open Innovation Competition to reinvigorate and reimagine Melbourne through creative, innovative and technology-enabled solutions.
      • EverythingData

        Winner

        Smitan Pradhan, Saumya Sinha

        Small retailers face inventory, sales and customer engagement problems and this is intensified due to COVID. Insufficient supply of items delivers poor customer experience impacting loyalty and surplus of stocks impedes new stock entry. In an effort to facilitate the recovery of small retailers from COVID, we are proposing a user-friendly and retail-centric desktop app that offers sales recommendations driven by AI and predictive analytics capabilities.

      • Kibble Pty Ltd

        Winner

        Hugh McCaffrey, Ashwin Ramachandran, Aadesh Rana, Minh Ton

        We’ve all experienced scrolling through Google to find a place to eat or drink. Numerous non-tailored results cause decision paralysis and merchants struggle to cut through the noise.

        'Love at First Bite' presents a fun and interactive solution: it’s like Tinder but for food and drinks. Customers are ‘matched’ to merchants using our AI/ML algorithm, lowering CAC and optimising customers’ experience. We are re-imagining advertising.

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      • Orderlina

        Winner

        Shaun De Silva, Rohan Watt, Jayadev Devaraj, Andre Agassi, Tamara Watt, Niladri Db, Ma. Elaine Muncada

        Hospitality and tourism have been decimated. We will connect these businesses together with residents and visitors for economic vitality using a QR menu solution.

        For example, hotels can offer guests local coworking spaces and tours and wellness services from local businesses. Coworking spaces can offer food from local restaurants.

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      • Pelican Studios Pty Ltd and Make Mob

        Winner

        Callan Morgan, Shaye Harty, Ravi Bessabava, Charlie Waters, Naomi Faith, Josh Gurtler, Brad Hammond, Benjamin ‘Bigs’ Coppel, Trent Clews-de Castella

        Technology has reimagined life, work and connection post-COVID. Yet studies say over 60% of Victorians yearn for face-to-face interaction. Helios blends art, sustainable technology and place-making to rethink how we meet those needs. It provides power and free wi-fi for city visitors, drawing people to urban spaces and inviting them to stay.

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      • POPS4Public

        Winner

        Mohammad Mohammadi

        POPS4public improves the access and inclusiveness of Privately-Owned Public Spaces (POPS) by mapping their location and facilities. POPSs provide potentials and affordances for bringing back people to the city, which cannot be found in fully public spaces. Diverse and innovative uses can be expected in POPSs, while their visibility, accessibility and inclusion are criticised. The app invites people to these hidden spots, bringing social and economic life back to them.

      • Team JJJE

        Winner

        Jeddi Kyne, Jacqueline Lee, Justin Choong, Elles Le

        We want to drive traffic in and around the city by enhancing awareness and engagement of what’s on. WADOO is the City of Melbourne gamified, featuring missions that take you to places in the CBD, the ability to earn points and redeem real-life rewards, and customisations. It shows real-time information about events, attractions and restaurants that are near you so you see exciting activities that are available right then and there.

      • AIBUILD Pty Ltd

        Falls are a major cause of mortality in the elderly. 42% of people aged over 70 fall each year. By preventing falls, over $600,000,000 can be saved and the risk of death can be reduced by 80%. During COVID-19, there has been an increased risk of falls due to depletion of staff. Our innovative solution CaptureFall has a high accuracy of fall prediction and detection rate. When a fall is predicted to occur, the app will alert the carers. They can then quickly intervene before a fall occurs.

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      • ComeTogether

        Lazaros Penteridis, Stavros Antoniadis, Nikolaos Chatzivasileiadis, Stathis Mitskas, Claudia Bacco, Konstantinos Anastasiou, Evangelos Antoniou

        BackTogether Health Passports (COVID-19, antibody, vaccination status) use the same blockchain as ComeTogether’s digital event ticketing app its foundation and is interoperable with other health passports. This could be for a public/private space or to enable the restart of entertainment sectors.


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      • Culture Quest Tours

        Travel and stories can play a great role in removing the mental barriers responsible for social prejudice. We have crafted twelve live virtual experiences of Iran. Friendly local guides with a deep understanding run the tours and engage audiences as much as possible. The tours are accessible via Zoom and are well-curated and enriched by stories of the cultures, and feature virtual reality-based presentations of attractions.

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      • Data Brand

        Jasper Dorman

        "Brand trust now lives at the intersection where personal and societal issues converge, and where words are backed by action”—Edelman Trust Barometer.

        Data Brand is a design company that partners with businesses/organisations to create data-driven public art and campaigns to increase consumer trust through business transparency and audience engagement, reactivating Melbourne by inviting participation in unique and data-driven experiences that creates value for company and customer.

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      • Delivery Around

        Balakrishna Venukumar, Abhishek Mitra

        We are solving current delivery delays - as many businesses have moved online, the need for delivery services has increased, which has caused delays.

        The existing players are overwhelmed with the demand, and few supermarkets have delivery.

        Our solution is low-priced delivery services. We will serve in and around the suburbs in the city and locations such as restaurants, SMEs, medicine shops, offices and worksites.

        Learn more 

      • Digi-Co

        Jorge Castillo, Pichitchai Choonprasan, Dinuki Gamage

        Digi-Co is designed to bring vibrancy, reactivation and crowds back into the CBD with a new immersive experience and to re-populate vacant building spaces in Melbourne. It creates connections and collaborations among creative industry individuals, the public and landowners who are suffering from lack of building space occupancy. It uses AR as its medium as a new way to access and visualise data, navigate and digitally experience the city.

      • DivergentCommunity

        We are in a new paradigm now where the office worker will no longer provide as much value to the city. This means that the city needs to engage with a wider variety of demographic groups and see what provides them with value. We also live in an Agile world where the need to continuously learn and get feedback will drive innovation. In a new paradigm, nothing can be taken for granted, and assumptions should be tested to see whether they are correct and whether they will provide value.

      • Earthworker Cooperative

        According to City of Melbourne data, we lost over 30% of small business in the CBD. That is a lot of humans, community, colour and diversity; we have lost much more than we can quantify in the data. The big corporations won and have survived, which is a problem that we will be feeling in many ways for years to come.

        Money and work have been challenged - their purpose and their value. As we rebuild businesses we can change the way we do so and invest in a worker-owned cooperative incubator.

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      • Emerging artists collective

        Offering exposure for Melbourne and regional Victorian Indigenous artists and crafters (artisans) in Melbourne, reminding us of not only our interconnectedness of cultures in time - Australian and indigenous, current and ancestral - but also the interconnectedness of regional to city, people to people, land to land, people to country, art to life, nature to culture, indigenous art to abstract art.

      • Give It Thought

        Mel generates a randomised, unique, visceral journey that leads you using a map to new pockets of the city, be it restaurants, bars or quirky, artistic spaces. By curating individual, novel experiences, targeted at locals aged 25 to 40, Mel increases foot-traffic in out of the way areas, stimulates economic growth within the hospitality and arts sectors and encourages people to connect utilising technology, all while bringing vibrancy to the streets of Melbourne.

      • GS1 Australia

        Jonathan Sulte, Ben Teo, Marcel Sierra, Tavita Maanaima

        One of the deterrents of people coming into the CBD is parking. "ParkCode" provides people who park in the Melbourne CBD with an easy way to "de-mystify" parking signs using their mobile devices through implementing QR codes on street parking signs and offering a free web service that, upon scanning, will provide the user with accurate information regarding the zone they are parked in.

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      • Guidify

        The key problem Guidify can help with is reduced footfall and vibrancy in the City of Melbourne. Guidify can help re-invigorate city tourism, the night time economy and the hospitality sector while promoting new and existing artwork and the creative industries.

        It can also be used to welcome international students back to Melbourne with an induction tour of the city.

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      • Hourly Stay

        Balakrishna Venukumar, Abhilash Devo

        Hourly Stay is a hotel booking platform for short-stay hotel rooms. Customers can book hotel rooms on an hourly basis and pay for the hours they have stayed.

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      • Infinity Amos Pty Ltd

        The City of Melbourne has changed forever as a direct result of COVID-19. My solution is to give people more confidence when venturing back into the city by offering them a safer way to touch, grab or press, high traffic public surfaces like door handles, elevator buttons or even pedestrian crossing buttons, by removing direct contact to limit transmission.

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      • LOSFEE and Acer Landscapes

        Yusuke Nakashima, Hiroshi Yoshinaga, Kiyohito Tamotsu

        We want to revitalize Melbourne’s economy, enhance public health, and adapt to climate change by providing ORIGAMI SHADING to outdoor dining restaurants, café, laneways and other public spaces. ORIGAMI SHADING has geometric notches. They create natural bower-like shadow on the ground and drop surface temperature more than 15°C compared to normal shading. It will also provide more opportunity for healthy outdoor activities in Melbourne.

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      • Opino Pty Ltd

        Sweety Thakkar, Jignesh Thakkar

        Opino is a simple and attention-seeking customer feedback application that strengthens relationships with customers. Customer perception is the foundation of any successful business. We are here to bridge the gap and empower our clients to build perfect customer relationships using our friendly customer feedback solution.

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      • Sam the Tram

        Dr Lowen Clarke, Adrian Masterman-Smith

        There is much healing to be done after COVID. A revolutionary new reading and writing format developed in Melbourne can help in the healing. This is Empowerment Script, which has been prototyped into a book featuring an existing Melbourne icon, Sam the Tram. The book was published in the US in April 2020. Empowerment Script can be used to help all overcome the mental effects of the pandemic - it replicates a powerful therapy used for PTSD known as EMDR.

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      • Schuler Shook Pty Ltd

        Josie White, Jim Hultquist, Jane Millett, Graeme Trott, Tim Blaike, Joel Zika/Collide Public Arts

        It is now clear that mobility, fresh air, and the mindful engagement with the environment go hand-in-hand with tangible and intangible wellbeing. The Floating Arts Platform will provide a flexible and unique 'stage' to draw people to the river's edge, to gather, to engage and tell our story.

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      • Strategic Artistry Pty Ltd (trading as CURATE)

        CURATE is designing a marketplace for crowd-sourced learning programs in collaboration with a range of stakeholder organisations, thought leaders and changemakers. We are formalising our existing network of trainers and training organisations into a community of practice. A network of collaboration spaces enabled through systems and technology. With integrated technology, we can ensure that events and training can proceed, be in in person, online or hybrid delivery.

      • Vizdom

        My idea is about trying to solve the following problems:

        1. The dead loop of "There's no event in the city so people are less likely to come to the city" then "Because not many people are coming into the city, less people would risk hosting an event".

        2. Many spaces are "wasted" - not in use at all times or after business hours; this especially affects those who close early in the day.

        3. There are many talents and resources but they often don't get the chance to meet each other.

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