Dear colleagues,
"The GODAN Local Farming Challenge 2017 – Bringing geoinnovation for solving Zero Hunger" was launched at Geospatial World Forum 2017 [1] in Hyderabad, India by André Laperrière (Executive Director, GODAN) during his keynote on 23rd Jan 2017. Local Farming is an important aspect in sustainability and hence we are launching the GODAN Challenge welcoming students to come up with innovative ideas like mapping for optimal linking of local farming community directly with potential customers , tools for visualising spatio-temporal aspects of local farming , tools for helping reducing wastage (for example linking with local food banks) etc for helping find solutions to Zero Hunger aim. It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science [3] were propounded. They build upon the proposition of Open science which promotes that scientific knowledge of all kinds develops more rapidly and productively if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients that make Open Geospatial Science possible are enshrined in Open Principles, i.e: Open Source geospatial software, Open data, Open standards ,Open educational resources, and Open access to research publications. Nearly 800 million people struggle with debilitating hunger and malnutrition in every corner of the globe. That’s one in every nine people, with the majority being women and children. We are convinced that the solution to Zero Hunger lies within existing, but often unavailable, agriculture and nutrition data. The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) [4] supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security. Through the GODAN -NASA Europa Challenge [5],[6],[7] we want to bring together brought together researchers and students to work on innovative ideas around a collaboration on agriculture and nutrition data openness. We look forward to active participation for all interested for the "The GODAN Local Farming Challenge 2017 – Bringing geoinnovation for solving Zero Hunger". Call info at http://www.godan.info/news/godan-nasa-europa-student-challenge-announcement For more details contact suchith.an...@godan.info Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://geospatialworldforum.org/geoagri.asp [2] http://www.godan.info/working-groups/capacity-development [3] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications [4] http://www.godan.info [5] http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ [6] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart [7] http://www.geoforall.org This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
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