[open-sustainability] Open Data Day on Floods, Open Sustainability Portal Idea, Flood Data List, Cleanweb March on Flooding

[Jack Townsend]

Hey Rufus

Great that floods are on the agenda for Open Data Day, can follow on with the energy at the #floodhack event yesterday. Will get it announced at the new Climate Change Coders event on Wednesday.

As for the flood data sources, there's a good list from the event here. The data the Environment Agency "opened" yesterday is just for a three month period but it's a step in the right direction, and I'm sure all the attention will develop this conversation. 

Hope to make it on Saturday, have a relevant idea emerging from my research: a global environmental- and sustainability- focussed CKAN portal aggregating metadata from all the others. Described below, will add to the list.

Oh, and we're probably going to refocus Cleanweb London 24 March onto using the Web to tackle climate adaptation and flooding.  

Cheers
Jack


Open Sustainability Data Portal

Much of the data that is critical to moving towards a more sustainable society and combatting climate change is scattered across the internet on different open data portals and websites. This places substantial obstacles in the way of people looking to drive forward the sustainability agenda. There is an opportunity to create a global sustainability super-portal as a gateway to all this data, wherever it is. The repository will be based on the leading open source open data repository software CKAN, including code from the http://publicdata.eu/<http://publicdata.eu/> version which allows the mirroring of other repositories.




On 17 Feb 2014, at 08:44, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
 wrote:

> Hi Jack,
> 
> This is great. There are also plans to have a focus on Flood data at the London Open Data Event this coming Saturday, see:
> 
> http://en.okfn.org/open-data-day-2014/
> 
> Rufus
> 
> 
> On 14 February 2014 21:03, Jack Townsend <jack at jacktownsend.net> wrote:
>> From: Joshua March <josh at conversocial.com>
>> Subject: Your country needs you: #FloodHack this Sunday!
>> Date: 14 February 2014 20:54:24 GMT
>> To: <open-sustainability at lists.okfn.org>
>> 
>> 
>> Hi guys, 
>> 
>> The government called a meeting today with a number of major UK tech companies to discuss what the tech and developer community could do to help with the flood crisis engulfing the UK. 
>> 
>> As part of this, the Environment Agency agreed to open up real-time data on flood levels/status, mapped across the UK, so that developers can utilize the data for free (at least for the next three months). 
>> 
>> We're organizing a hackathon THIS SUNDAY in Shoreditch, London, to build apps on top of the data to try and help people keep up to date with the issues in their area (or areas they're traveling to), and get the data they need on how they can get help, how they can volunteer etc. 
>> 
>> There are more details below, and on the hackpad page: https://hackpad.com/UK-Flood-Help-February-2014-QFpKPE5Wy6s
>> 
>> This is obviously super short notice, but an amazing opp to build something that could actually help thousands of people. Google have agreed to host it, and will be sending developers, as will Facebook, Microsoft and many other start-ups in the area (including my own). 
>> 
>> Please spread the word, and come down if you can make it!
>>  
>> ---
>> 
>> Calling all developers!
>> 
>> We have been hit by the worst flooding and weather the UK has seen in our lifetimes. Getting the right information to people about the problems affecting particular areas, and the right places to turn to help (or for information on how THEY can help volunteer) is crucial. The government has near real-time data on flooding levels and alerts, mapped out across the entire country, which they want to put to the best possible use. Following a meeting called today at Number 10 with leading technology companies, the Environment Agency, the Government Digital Service, the Open Data Institute and the Cabinet Office are working to open up this data to the public for the next three months, allowing developers to build innovative applications that can help those affected by the flooding. 
>> 
>> This Sunday at 10am, join developers from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Conversocial, Datasift, Mother, Taskhub and more for a hackathon, hosted by Tech CityUK at Google Campus in Shoreditch, where the Open Data Institute will share the flood level data with developers and be on hand to help throughout the day. The Cabinet Office will be choosing the most useful applications demoed on the day to be promoted to flood victims across the country. 
>> 
>> Please register for the hackathon here.
>> 
>> Your country needs you!
>> 
>> ------
>> 
>> Hopefully see you Sunday,
>> 
>> Josh
>> Joshua March
>> Founder & CEO, Conversocial
>> 
>> e: josh at conversocial.com | w: www.conversocial.com 
>> Find me on: Twitter LinkedIn 
>> 
>> 
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