As a Smart City, Cauyan is committed to delivering quality services to its constituents and one way to sustain such is to employ digital infrastructures as an anticipation of the challenge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, budgetary requirements remain to be challenging in these trying times of the pandemic where projects are on hold and emphasis focused on combatting disease transmissions. Procurement and budgeting provisions become tight when establishing infrastructure in the case. It is questioned as an essential move or not, yet, food as the main focus of such a proposal becomes unrecognizable. That is why, this Hackathon is a critical opportunity for the LGU to seek ideas in sourcing out funds, align priorities, or adopt significant proposals that are data-driven to be able to withstand such infrastructure. The locale and experts of the LGU as more immersed in the community and are encouraged to take part in this consultative engagement.

The following use-case statements are your guide to help you align your intention in addressing areas of this challenge:

a. How can D&T help in obtaining monetary support from its stakeholders for regional organizations?
b. How can DSA help the LGU develop a smarter budgeting mechanism to employ appropriate agricultural infrastructures and other digital technologies to support economic viability for a more well-organized region?
c. Developing digital solutions using DSA to uphold regional transparency and help justify the urgency of procuring digital solutions for farming.
d. How can D&T generate revenue by developing digital farming technologies?
e. How can DSA help the LGU underscore a reasonable budget to procure digital farming technologies and increase agricultural productivity to invite business opportunities?
f. Making use of LGU data to develop digital solutions for transparent budgeting that will recommend a possible source of funds/grants to support agricultural productivity and financial independence.
g. How can D&T improve climate change-related systems in forecasting productive seasons for farmers?
h. How can DSA help the LGU develop digital solutions in aligning the budget for the development of a climate-resilient infrastructure for farming?
i. Development of a smarter DSA infrastructure that will assist the LGU in defining its budgeting mechanisms for climate-resilient innovations in agriculture.
j. How can D&T efficiently generate reports in support of adopting sustainable infrastructure for digital farming technologies by the LGU?
k. How can DSA help the LGU include in their budgetary priorities the procurement of digitalized infrastructure for sustainability?
l. Utilizing the data of the LGU in defining budgetary mechanisms to support the establishment of sustainable infrastructures.
m. How can DSA transform data of the LGU to source out funds supporting the procurement of digitalized infrastructures and other machinery upholding food and security?
n. How can data be transformed into a digital solution to define the budgetary mechanism of the LGU and support initiatives to resolve food insecurities?
o. How can the existing and previous budget allocations be of great use in requesting a budget increase from the government to resolve food insecurities in the LGU?
p. How can DSA help the LGU establish a new practice in defining priorities for budget allocation?
q. How can DSA help LGU invest in digital infrastructures and uphold more job opportunities among its constituents?
r. How can DSA empower the LGU and create a strong network to support their projects relative to boosting agricultural strengths?