FW: [Open-education] Invitation to NASA Europa Challenge 2015 - Solutions For a Sustainable World

Joi Apr 2 06:40:35 UTC 2015

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From: open-education [mailto:open-education-bounces la lists.okfn.org] On
Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent: 2 aprilie 2015 05:31
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Subject: [Open-education] Invitation to NASA Europa Challenge 2015 -
Solutions For a Sustainable World

Dear colleague,

On behalf of "Geo for All"  http://www.geoforall.org    , i would like to
welcome strong global participation for the third edition of the NASA
Worldwind 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
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/. Details of the challenge at
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

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

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.

We encourage you to inform this initiative to your students and have project
teams for this. Already some excellent project ideas and teams have been
formed for this year's challenge and the deadline for project submissions is
1 July 2015. We will be awarding the winners at FOSS4G 2015- Europe "Open
Innovation for Europe" conference at Como, Italy in July . Details at
http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/

Also this year at FOSS4G-Europe , we will be also be announcing the winners
of the "GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015" from the
excellent list of nominations that we received at
http://www.osgeo.org/node/1506

This is a great opportunity for us to thank all colleagues for their
excellent contributions to Openness in Education principles in the Geo
domain and to thank all educators worldwide who have made contributions to
open education efforts and being good global citizens by helping spread the
benefits of education to all.

By combining the potential of  Free and Open Source software, Open
Standards, Open Data, Open Education Resources,  you all have made "Geo for
All"   the PLATFORM for offering education opportunities to nurture and
develop Open Minds in students globally for a better planet and better
future for all.

Best wishes,

Suchith Anand
Founder, Geo for All
http://www.geoforall.org

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