Innovation through challenges

The GovTech-Program Denmark is a challenge-based initiative, which seeks to support, strengthen and further develop collaboration between the public sector and technology companies with innovative solutions for the Danish Government, more specifically the Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs and the Agency for Digitisation.

According to the UN, Denmark is the leading country in the world when it comes to public digitisation. Nevertheless, it is crucial to remain up to speed with the latest technological advances in order to further improve public services through new and innovative solutions. To achieve this, Denmark must become even better at supporting the collaboration between public authorities and tech companies.

When building and maintaining the railway, cables are sometimes damaged in the process. This causes delayed trains and possibly consequences for train operation throughout entire Denmark. To avoid this situation, information about the placement of the cabling is crucial. A digitalization of Banedanmark’s maps can avoid damaged cables and delayed trains. Banedanmark is in possession of more than 10.000 cable drawings, that need to be geo-referenced and vectorized. A task that companies in a similar situation have solved manually, but for which Banedanmark wishes to develop an automated solution. In other words, Banedanmark is challenging the market to invent a new and innovative converting method. A solution can have an enormous impact - not just for Banedanmark, but for other public and private organizations that wish to digitize old drawings as well.