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

Tue Feb 18 19:04:40 UTC 2014

@Owen: just wanted to say this is *awesome* and incredibly useful!

Rufus

On 17 February 2014 16:29, Owen Boswarva <owen.boswarva at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Here's a more-or-less comprehensive list of the Environment Agency's
> flood-related datasets, with links to metadata:
>
> http://www.owenboswarva.com/opendata/EA/ea_flood_datasets.htm
>
> Mainly for purposes of context and agitation, as only a small number of
> the peripheral datasets are currently open data.
>
> -- Owen Boswarva
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Jack Townsend <jack at jacktownsend.net>wrote:
>
> 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<https://hackpad.com/Data-APIs-for-floodhack-zd2MTv6chas>. 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<http://www.meetup.com/Cleanweb-London/> 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<http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flood-hack-appeal-tickets-8102754557>
>>> .
>>>
>>>  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 <http://twitter.com/joshuamarch> LinkedIn<http://twitter.com/joshuamarch>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
>>
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