Askdata wins the Call 4 Innovation organized by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF)
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Askdata wins the Call 4 Innovation organized by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) ⚡AskData Follow Oct 27, 2020 · 3 min read

Open NoiPA, the Call4Innovation comes to an end with the announcement of the winner during the PoC Day

The PoC Day, the day dedicated to the presentation of the finalist solutions and the proclamation of the winner of the initiative, sees the Askdata proposal prevail with a search engine based on artificial intelligence to support the assistance and management of NoiPA customer care .

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), with the organizational support of DPIXEL, launched the Call4Innovation initiative starting from last May 15, with the aim of identifying technological and innovative solutions in the HR, Administrative and Open Data Management, able to innovate and enhance NoiPA, the platform created by the DSII for the management of the personnel of the Public Administration.

Call4Innovation, open to startups and SMEs, took place on the following verticals of interest: Performance Management, Training, Employee Satisfaction, Internal Communication, Welfare, Back office HR, Payroll, Data Analysis, Big Data and Data Protection.

Call4Innovation saw the participation of 70 Start Ups and innovative SMEs. After an initial phase in which all the proposals presented by the companies were analyzed, 10 SMEs and innovative Startups were selected which, with their Proof of Concept (PoC), faced a subsequent phase of analysis and evaluation of the solutions.

The evaluation was based on 5 parameters: innovativeness of the proposed solution and technology used; quality of the PoC achieved; relevance of the PoC to NoiPA’s needs and objectives; ease of integration in NoiPA and potential of the PoC with respect to possible needs of the MEF

During the PoC Day, the day dedicated to the conclusion of the initiative, the 10 SMEs and innovative Startups had the opportunity to present their proposals, which were subsequently voted on by a small group that substantially confirmed the outcome of the previous evaluation. decreeing Askdata as the winning innovative SME.

The proposed PoC includes a search engine based on artificial intelligence to support the assistance and management of NoiPA’s customer care. The technology allows, similar to a Google search engine, to write queries in natural language, translate them into technical queries, and receive immediate and easy-to-understand answers from any source and database (structured and unstructured).

More specifically, the proposed solution is suitable for three types of use:

● Customer service: in the context of assistance management, it allows you to easily reconstruct the knowledge necessary to manage assistance.

● Business intelligence: can be used as a widespread tool in the NoiPA data analysis administration to support information and reporting.

● Open Data: application of the solution to Open Data, to make them immediately usable by the citizen.

More about Askdata

Askdata’s mission is to make data productive for everyone, in order to do that we’ve create the fist human data gateway that makes the data usage experience x10 times better. More info about Askdata: https://www.askdata.com