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Automation to provide better advice to people: apply for funding

Source: http://www.govopps.co.uk/

Organisations can apply for a share of £150,000 to look at ways of automating updates to advice and information given to customers by Citizens Advice Scotland (December 3rd).The Citizens Advice Scotland website has more than 3,500 pages of content. The process of scanning legislation and other sources for updates is currently done manually, taking a lot of time and leaving it open to human bias and error.Working in partnership with Innovate UK, the organisation has up to £150,000 to invest in projects that look at automating updating to thousands of pages of information and advice for the public.A further £300,000 could be available in a second phase to develop and test up to 2 of the best ideas.Funding is provided by the CAN DO Innovation Challenge Fund and is under the SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) programme.