Exchange Lab Alumni Teams

Teams that partner with the lab typically have a year long residency to build their team and a beta product. Once they are ready to announce a live product, they transition out of the lab. The intention is to have built the organization’s capacity to support the team by this time.

Some of the product teams listed are evolved from teams that started in the lab and are now building the next product in their portfolio.

BC Biodiversity Hub

The objectives for the BioHubBC project are to:

provide a single source for aquatic and terrestrial species and habitat data.
reduce the barriers for collecting and sharing aquatic and terrestrial species and habitat data throughout the province of British Columbia.
reduce the effort involved with managing aquatic and terrestrial species and habitat data.
improve access for all stakeholders to the aquatic and terrestrial species and habitat data needed to make informed decisions and policies for the province.

This team is an extension/continuation of the Invasive Species team that partnered with the lab.

See the BC Biodiversity Hub code on GitHub

DataBC

DataBC is a partner that supports the Digital Delivery network with data products and services. They resided in the Lab for a time to enable connection with new product teams and to transition their existing operations to adopt Agile practices, while improving their products based on what they were learning from the community,

Check out DataBC’s services including:

Data Catalogue (including open data)
BC Map services and spatial data infrastructure
Location services, including Geocoder

Digital Marketplace

The team behind the initial creation of the Exchange Lab (formerly CSI Lab), the BCDevExchange modernizes how government delivers services. They created the flagship apps: “Code With Us” and “Sprint with Us.” This branch of the Office of the Chief Information Officer models a modern Public Service by building & supporting teams that apply the culture, processes, business models and technology of the digital era to solving public challenges.

Frontend	Backend	Database	Deployment Tool	Automation Tests	Languages
Angular	Express, Node.js	Mongodb	Jenkins		js, TypeScript

Environmental Assessment

EPIC (EAO Project Information and Collaboration) provides citizens, Indigenous groups and stakeholders access to centralized information and the ability to participate in and provide feedback on environmental assessments. The tool also simplifies business processes for staff.

Frontend	Backend	Database	Deployment Tool	Automation Tests	Languages
Angular	Express, Node.js	MongoDB	Jenkins		js

Invasive Species

Conservation is a key outcome for this team building tools to support invasive species management. The open source code will be a foundation for managing other types of species and ecosystem data in the future.

Frontend	Backend	Database	Deployment Tool	Automation Tests	Languages
Angular 2, Swift	Express, Node.js	PostgresSQL	Jenkins		js, Swift

Mines Digital Service (MDS)

This dual team has built scalable, open source, data-driven systems, including a platform for ministry staff that is intuitive and capable of providing meaningful data. They are also building a public portal – Minespace – allows mines to self-report electronically.

Frontend	Backend	Database	Deployment Tool	Automation Tests	Languages
React Redux	Pyhton Flask	PostgreSQL	Jenkins	Groovy/GEB	js, Pyton, Groovy

MSP Forms

One of the first products to be supported by the BCDevExchange, the MSP application was a simple solution to a costly problem: a 40% error rate in MSP forms. People seeking health care in BC experience form errors less than 2% of the time now. The open code for this product was also reused to produce an application that enables more efficient FOI process.

Frontend	Backend	Database	Deployment Tool	Automation Tests	Languages
Agular	Node.js		Jenkins		js, TypeScript

MyRangeBC

The Range program built an app with the BCDevExchange’s Mobile Pathfinder that enables offline collection and management of data about crown lands used for livestock range. The open source tool supports sustainable management of herds and the wild plants they rely on.

Frontend	Backend	Database	Deployment Tool	Automation Tests	Languages
React, Swift	Express, Node.js	PostgreSQL	Jenkins		js, Swift

Public Review and Comment

Public review and comment is the way the government collects public input on proposed activities on crown land as part of the decision-making process. The team created a service, now called the “Application, Comment and Reason for Decision” (ACRFD) app that improved the way people learn about and provide comments on proposed activities.

Frontend	Backend	Database	Deployment Tool	Automation Tests	Languages
Agular	Node.js	MongoDB	Jenkins		js, TypeScript

Transportation Fuel Reporting System

The Transportation Fuels Reporting System facilitates online Fuel Reporting and Low Carbon Fuel Credit Trading supporting BC’s market-based approach to avoiding lifecycle GHG emissions from transportation fuel.

Frontend	Backend	Database	Deployment Tool	Automation Tests	Languages
React Redux	Django	PostgreSQL	Jenkins	Groovy/GEB	js, Python, Groovy

Water

This team first built Groundwater wells (GWELLS): a registry application for industry, academia, governments and the general public who submit or use groundwater data and information. The team is now onto their second product outside of the Exchange Lab: a water information data visualization service that enables robust and defensible water resource decisions.

Frontend	Backend	Database	Deployment Tool	Automation Tests	Languages
Vue	Django REST	PostgreSQL	Jenkins	Groovy/GEB	js, Python, Groovy

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