Hi Velichka, This sounds really interesting. I look forward to hearing ideas. I have also forwarded it to [email protected].
S On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Velichka Dimitrova < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Sam Leon Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: samedleon
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