{"id":42959,"date":"2023-10-20T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/act-startup-challenge-winner-comes-up-with-the-antidote-to-george-costanzas-exploding-wallet-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:25:03","slug":"act-startup-challenge-winner-comes-up-with-the-antidote-to-george-costanzas-exploding-wallet-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/act-startup-challenge-winner-comes-up-with-the-antidote-to-george-costanzas-exploding-wallet-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT startup challenge winner comes up with the antidote to George Costanza\u2019s exploding wallet – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If George Costanza had Cardly, his wallet might never have exploded.<\/p>\n

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Cardly, a prototype digital ID wallet app developed by Canberra-based Imagine Team, enables users to load their government cards onto the app, access and use those cards through their smartphones, eliminating the need to carry them around.<\/p>\n

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The app took out first place and won $12,500 at the Canberra Digital Challenge Awards recently. The competition is an ACT Government initiative run by the eGov Cluster hosted by NICTA and helps engage startups and entrepreneurs to provide digital solutions for problems facing the city.<\/p>\n

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Zakaria Bouguettaya, who created Cardly with Andrew Clapham, says there\u2019s many problems facing government that entrepreneurs and startups could solve, but it\u2019s too difficult for them to engage the relevant government bodies. The Canberra Digital Challenge helps address that problem, by linking entrepreneurs and startups with government agencies from the very beginning of the process.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s the thing that really excited us about the Digital Challenge,\u201d Bouguettaya says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you think of government procurement, it\u2019s the tender process, and that\u2019s not something that sits very well with innovation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat the Canberra Digital Challenge has done is enable us to explore the solution and deliver it. And now we have the official capacity to work with a government department.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you were doing this independently as a private enterprise, the biggest question you\u2019re going to be asked is how do you get the government involved?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cardly isn\u2019t intended to replace physical government cards, but rather can augment the services they provide.<\/p>\n

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The Cardly prototype incorporates Canberra\u2019s MyWay public transport cards and ACT drivers licences. However, Bouguettaya says there\u2019s no reason it couldn\u2019t be extended to include many other cards, including those issued by the federal government and other states.<\/p>\n

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ACT Deputy Chief Minister Andrew Barr says the challenge resulted in startups and entrepreneurs  thinking deeply about the issues facing government.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Digital Canberra Challenge encourages ACT public servants, and the local community, to get involved in thinking differently about our government and developing new and better ways for us to do business,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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