<div dir="ltr"><div>Researchers and data scientists in the HOT community: you may be interested in the challenge below.</div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#666666"><b>Tyler Radford</b></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Executive Director</font></div><div><font color="#666666"><a href="mailto:tyler.radford@hotosm.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">tyler.radford@hotosm.org</a></font></div><div><font color="#666666">@TylerSRadford</font></div><div><br></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000">Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team</font></b></div><div><b><font size="1" color="#666666">Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development</font></b></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://hotosm.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">web</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hotosm" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hotosm" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">facebook</a> | <a href="http://donate.hotosm.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">donate</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img width="624" height="104" style="border:currentColor" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/sJ2EUGhuWR4Bo6fI2HGZEQupnff-b54R7fd3_09ZdBZSx5564HN3-DfiBpN6q7e2OFYW1NKImmU4eaUY6U1uXj_m063Z4dcbSS5jSQJ1SAIkc830-1ZaRUKDixQIipMwhC3qQvzZ"></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><img width="71" height="120" style="border:currentColor" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/kNWZy-LgX_OeGlX1LD-4y6DgeGiFt29u_Uhz6h3d388QKuWfKrlpacgbd1XbE1rH3bGvg6gM9hPNbiYqYmvkBNIC6Q7qmH_KdXlWTWNUt0N_gTiyRvluZjzirbzmAhSmwvGZ0wU9"><img width="117" height="117" style="border:currentColor" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/We7kSPES1IXkpLASfO8lxDJLTev8Kw4ZrsRH2ohR80DYhOskKf08tReLoMh0JifKnhqcXV7k55I2FMQTnrL7BbsP90cn6cyhWshLWJggFJoYtvTML-itYP8MPmVzt9zzpRPKaCfa"><img width="136" height="134" style="border:currentColor" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6rOv955PyKqnlIENBnNottxhXsxgTneYkLsLdt7H8n0-kRd5m6vK4bQ-Tm2mPgI6cUN5N5BGKREHRzQIBcBPSpOpSrHAgDa7Zs7XphIMvWGiTRlSivbRRq9BKJ6TPiDDlFORwsTV"></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><h3 style="text-align:center;line-height:1.3235;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join “Data for Climate Action” – an open innovation challenge </span></h3><h3 style="text-align:center;line-height:1.3235;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">to channel big data for climate solutions</span></h3><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.unglobalpulse.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">UN Global Pulse</span></a><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> recently launched the </span><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data for Climate Action challenge: </span><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">a call to researchers and innovators around the world to put their skills to use to help achieve </span></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Goal 13 (combat climate change and its impacts).</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The challenge is being implemented in partnership with </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://www.wdc.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Western Digital</span></a><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and with support from </span></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.skollglobalthreats.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Skoll Global Threats Fund</span></a><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and has engaged eleven companies who pledged their data or tools to support climate action.</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Big data can provide dynamic feedback on how communities affect and are affected by the climate system, and can enable innovation to increase sustainability and resilience. Data for Climate Action encourages researchers and data scientists to use this data to accelerate climate action. </span></p><p style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Selected participants will have approximately four months to analyze the datasets provided by companies and produce papers, apps, tools and/or platforms. These solutions will be evaluated by a high-level panel of experts in data science and climate change for a November awards ceremony.</span></p><div style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:14pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Learn more and apply to participate by 10 April at </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.dataforclimateaction.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:calibri;font-size:14pt;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.dataforclimateaction.org</span></a></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:14pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Press release available at</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://bit.ly/2njpSa2" target="_blank"></a><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://bit.ly/2njpSa2" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:calibri;font-size:14pt;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://bit.ly/2njpSa2</span></a></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_-1340414907625843769gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></font></span></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_-1340414907625843769gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></font></span></div></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_-1340414907625843769gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span><br></font></span></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">

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