Hi David, An excellent suggestion. Would you be interested in getting involved directly?
@Velichka, something to look into? All the best, Lucy On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:06 AM, David Hirst <[email protected]> wrote: > A fascinating idea. > Is it likely to be possible to do a world / continental version of the DECC > 2050 pathways model? > http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/tackling/2050/2050.aspx. This model > is > UK oriented, and written for Excel (ugh), but it claims to be "Open > Source". > The data is probably available, but is mostly under IEA copyright. The > project could work to release it. > Might it be worth some liaison with > http://www.fateoftheworld.net/community. > It is not a game I have properly learned yet (the world so far always ends > in catastrophe!) but there may be scope for enhancing it and its data > sources. > Regards > David > David Hirst > !-!?!-Hirst Solutions Limited > Mobile: +44 7831 405443 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Velichka > Dimitrova > Sent: 16 January 2012 11:08 > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: [okfn-discuss] Apps4Climate > > Dear all, > > I would like to draw your attention to the current Apps4Climate competition > announced by the World Bank and ask you whether you would consider joining > the Open Economics/Open Energy group in preparing a submission. Here is a > short summary of the most relevant competition > rules: > > - Each Software Application must be related to climate change, either to > raise awareness, measure progress, or to help in some way to address the > development challenges of climate change. > - Each Software Application must make use of one or more of the datasets > listed in the World Bank Data Catalog (data.worldbank.org) or Climate > Change > Knowledge Portal (http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/). > - Submissions may be any kind of software application, be it for the web, a > personal computer, a mobile handheld device, console, SMS, or any software > platform broadly available to the public. > - The Competition Period ends on March 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM EST. > > Here are some ideas that are worth investigating: > - We could do an app, which visualises different energy indicators for all > countries from the World Bank database, as in http://energy.publicdata.eu/ > . > - We could also use geo-spatial data on deforestation and build a world > map, > which tracks changes in forest area and land use as well as carbon dioxide > emissions. There has been a project by the European Commission just for > forest area change and just for Europe: > http://efdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/viewer/. I am not aware of a project for an > app, which includes the whole world. > > Is there anyone else working on this? If there are enough human resources > we > could even prepare two submissions. > > Looking forward to hear from you, > > Velichka Dimitrova > Open Economics/Open Energy Working Group > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- Lucy Chambers Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: lucyfediachambers
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