Financial and Non-Financial support
Financial support
A programme budget of £30,000 has been identified for supporting local COVID-19 initiatives.
Funds are primarily intended to cover the development and operation costs of initiatives, such as:
- Servers, e.g. AWS, Digital Ocean
- Data, e.g. mapping
- Microservices, e.g. voice recognition API access
- Hardware
- Media and marketing
Funds will be awarded to initiatives which meet the guidelines in the Rules and Evaluation criteria documents. A shortlist of applications will be produced by a panel comprising local experts in Health, Technology, Economics, and Business. The shortlisted application will then do a live streamed pitch to the panel, and members of the digital community. The number and size of grants is not predetermined, and award of a grant is not guaranteed.
Non-Financial support
Non-Financial support is available to support the development and marketing for successful initiatives from within the teams at Digital Jersey and select partners depending on the type of project. Where projects are assessed highly but can’t be accommodated by this round of funding, every effort to find alternative funding will be made.
Through established relationships with Government and Health, Digital Jersey will collect input and channel feedback, to and from those engaged with this initiative. This will ensure clear and consistent information to those working to deliver solutions, as well as ensuring efficient use of our colleagues’ time in Government and Health.