His Majesty’s Government Communications Centre is seeking a mobile app which can help a phone user monitor their data over time, so they can adjust behaviour to help minimise their data footprint. While some data on phones enable apps to function, other elements are used for tracking, profiling and personalising. This challenge is about working out how this impacts on a person’s digital footprint.
HMGCC Co-Creation is seeking a simple to use, on-device solution that enables a user to monitor their data exposure, that can: • Capture as much advertising related information as possible. • Aggregate the data into a simple understandable feed. • Present a clear visual data exposure / risk dashboard.
Up to UK£60,000 is available for projects over 12 weeks to take a mobile app to minimum TRL 5.
Essential Requirements
- Capture advertising-related network traffic.
- Store data locally with no cloud upload and ability to export data.
- Present a clear, colour-coded dashboard on the phone.
- Include a description for each entry.
- Deliver a prototype that runs on a single common mobile operating system.
Desirable Requirements
- Provide a data export facility, to aid retrospective analysis of aggregated data.
- A prototype that runs on multiple common mobile operating systems.
Constraints
- Horizon scanning.
- Re-packaging of a third-party commercial system.
- Full commercial-grade hardening for large-scale deployment.
Submission of Phase 1 1-page proposals closes 24 September 2026.
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Co-Creation Challenge – HMGCC Co-Creaton- Data Footprint
