Belfast City Council
Belfast City Council is the local authority for the city of Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland and its largest council by population (around 350,000 residents). It delivers services including waste, planning, economic development and rates programmes, and runs the Smart Belfast urban-innovation programme (smartbelfast.city).
Website: belfastcity.gov.uk
Relationship
Challenge owner of the 2016 SBRI business-rates competition (with NI Department of Finance LPS and Future Cities Catapult) won by NQM; the resulting Business Rates Analytics trial identified ~£500,000 of uncollected rates. Business rates provide more than half of the council’s annual revenue.
Case studies
- Business rates revenue optimisation for local government using AI analytics
- Local economic recovery planning for councils using AI business-rates analytics — follow-on engagement applying machine learning to business-rates collection
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Public Sector
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