# Facilitating Impact

Ensuring impactful use of your open data both within and beyond your organisation requires taking action to facilitate use. Activities that have had previous success include:

* The appointment of an "Open Data Champion" to promote the availability of open data and its use
* Hackathons and other developer-orientated events
* Innovation challenges and competitions, for instance the[ Open Data Challenge Series hosted by ODI and Nesta,](https://theodi.org/insights/projects/open-data-challenge-series/) or the [Data for Local Environments Challenge hosted by the Industry for Data Partnership](https://theodi.org/news-and-events/blog/winners-and-judges-announced-for-the-data-for-local-environments-challenge/)
* Seed capital to turn a small number of compelling concepts into startups as exemplars
* Business round-tables or other events of engaging potential business users with open data from selected organisations
* Capacity building and awareness raising to promote the re-use of data within your organisation