Applying to our Address Geolocation Phase 1 Challenge? Get your questions answered!





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Colleagues,

Are you hard at work on your application, or have you just learned about the StatVentures Address Geolocation Phase 1 Challenge? We?re here to help!?

There are two info sessions left to learn about submission requirements, how the U.S. Census Bureau currently collects data related to this challenge, and what judges look for in standout submissions. As a reminder, winners of this phase of the challenge will receive up to $100,000 across 10 prizes, and a spot in our Phase 2 innovator cohort.

RSVP to attend tomorrow?s session or our last session on April 12 from 2-3 p.m. ET to get all your questions answered.

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[ [link removed] ]*What is the Address Geolocation Challenge??*

The Census Bureau conducts dozens of national censuses and surveys, including the decennial census. This work involves sending survey- or census-takers out to doors across the nation?including in very remote or rural locations without traditional addresses. To support these operations, the Census Bureau creates and maintains a master address file that includes all addresses in the United States. Without this address data, we can not correctly send census-takers, known as enumerators, to people?s doors to include them in critical data collection.

However, the methods currently used to build this database of addresses have some limitations, such as being relatively slow, costly, labor-intensive, and most importantly, sometimes providing incomplete or inaccurate data. We know the current methods used and the resulting data could be improved through new or emerging technologies or alternative data sources such as drone and satellite imagery, e-commerce data, and more.

Therefore, we?ve identified the need to explore additional data sources and techniques to evolve our current approaches. In this challenge, we are seeking new approaches, technologies, or data sources that provide a more complete, accurate, timely, and granular method to geolocate addresses in remote or rural locations.?

Submit a Concept Note Before April 19

We?re accepting concept notes that will help us collect address geolocation data more effectively until 11:59 p.m. ET on April 19. To learn about the requirements, rules, and terms & conditions, please visit challenge.gov [ [link removed] ].

StatVentures [ [link removed] ] is a program of Census Open Innovation Labs [ [link removed] ] that scouts technology through collaborations with innovators outside of government to ensure the U.S. Census Bureau continues to provide the highest quality data. Through multi-phase competitions, we invite participants to propose new concepts that could ultimately become the next methods and data sources for the Census Bureau.

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