On behalf of "Geo for All", we would like to welcome strong global
participation for the fourth edition of the NASA Europa challenge. The
aim of this challenge is to inspire ideas for building great
applications that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses NASA’s open
source virtual globe technology World Wind.
This NASA challenge attracts the best minds to develop their ideas
covering a broad range of domains from transportation to air quality
to linked data. The previous competition winners work is available at
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2013
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2014
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015
We thank Professor Maria Brovelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and
Patrick Hogan (NASA) for their efforts for this initiative which adds
great momentum to our efforts to promote openness in education and
research worldwide. The Europa Challenge has always had Europe's
INSPIRE Directive to guide project development. This year we continue
to have INSPIRE guide us and more specifically, we are looking for
solutions specific to urban management. The CitySmart Europa Challenge
is challenging the world's *best and brightest* to deliver sustainable
solutions serving city needs.
Almost every city needs the same data management tools as every other
city. How can we help cities work together to be more sustainable,
more livable and more resilient? If cities were able to share their
solutions with each other, this would multiply their investment by the
number of cities participating. Each city could develop different
functionalities and then 'share' these with each other, massively
increasing our planet's collective productivity.
Simply build a great application that serves some aspect of the
OpenCitySmart [1] [2] [3] design and uses NASA's open source virtual
globe technology, WebWorldWind. Whether you win or not, you will
advance a platform that allows every city to win! This challenge is
open to all on our home planet. See the 2015 Projects, 2014 Projects
and 2013 Projects. China had top teams these past two years, India had
an excellent team last year and Italy every year! A USA High School
team from Alaska won First Place in 2015! So students and SMEs are
welcome to join the competition this year.
This year's Europa Challenge is an excellent opportunity for the
global community to begin working in collaboration and prepare for the
increasing climate change scenarios in cities context. Students are
our future and looking at previous year's contributions from Global
Earthquake forecasts systems ( developed by some high school students
from Alaska who went on to win the first prize in
2015!)http://www.edlinesites.net/pages/America_Bridge_Project/Europa_Challenge
to Urban Traffic Visual Analytics Simulator , it just shows the
amazing contributions of these students and SMEs made for the global
good and for the benefit of all.
Details at http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
Those interested in being part of this global enterprise, please
subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opencitysmart
. Your participation is very welcome.
We look forward to your strong participation for the NASA CitySmart
Challenge 2016 and joining our mission to make geospatial education
and opportunities available for all.
Best wishes,
Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWuMfMMPfPw
[3] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2016-January/005027.html