The economy plays a vital in national development and boosting local enterprises is an inclusive initiative eyeing to alleviate people from poverty so that should no one will be left behind. At the height of the pandemic, changing impositions of lockdowns affected the deployment of agricultural products from the producers to consumers. Food wastage, damage, and lack of alternative entrepreneurial strategies affect the ability of the entire agricultural sector to support livelihoods. Meanwhile, such agricultural concerns caught the attention of the country for a call to develop innovative solutions to help farmers and the fisherfolks market their own harvests with utmost control on decent prices to recover from the pandemic.

The City of Cauayan in collaboration with the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) drives the way to digital transformation by inviting Data Analytics experts and locale to transform data sets of the LGU into an innovation that will provide economic freedom, regional organization, and inclusive growth for all via this Hackathon. The call to inclusive growth will surely create a pitch-perfect for the LGU not just today but for the future’s big digital guarantee.

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

a. How can DSA assist the LGU in establishing an accessible and organized market for all farmers to directly sell their agricultural yield?
b. How can DSA help the LGU organize a market that is farmer/producer friendly?
c. How can DSA help agricultural communities become digitally ready in marketing their agricultural goods?
d. How can DSA help the LGU promote its delicacies and other agricultural products to attract businesses for investment?
e. How can data sets be utilized to develop innovations for the digital market and encourage business organizations or Civil Societies to support such mechanisms?
f. How can DSA help the LGU invite development organizations to support local products until it will be introduced to the global market?
g. Making use of DSA in marketing agricultural products using environmentally friendly mechanisms.
h. Utilizing data sets in promoting environmental awareness using agricultural best practices.
i. Making use of DSA in marketing environment-friendly products to the market.
j. Building a digital infrastructure to establish unhampered and sustainable marketing of agricultural products.
k. Data as a primary component in building a digital platform to support local entrepreneurs for a sustainable economy.
l. DSA builds an accessible digital marketing hub to revitalize farmers' confidence in the new form of selling goods.
m. How can DSA be a big help to establish digital marketing mechanisms for the goal of attaining food security?
n. DSA as a significant input to boosting the digitalized market for all merchants and supporting sustainable livelihood for food security.
o. How can DSA be a big help to the agricultural sector in enabling fast distribution of agricultural products to communities to ensure that communities have enough supply?
p. Developing programs to educate farmers about digital marketing and fast distribution of agricultural products to legitimate buyers.
q. Utilizing data sets to establish a more integrated business hub to invite job opportunities.
r. Developing innovative solutions to market agricultural capacities and establish accessible transactions for farmers and other small-scale merchants. "