Hello everyone, It is wonderful to discover this group and the activities you have been focusing on.
My name is Willie Shubert and I work with the Internews Earth Journalism Network <earthjournalism.net>- a global community of environmental journalists working to cover topics of global importance. We have been pioneering the concept of GeoJournalism <http://geojournalism.org/about/> by combining increasingly available environmental data with the use of new mapping and data visualization tools to launch regionally based platforms that add all kinds of context to journalists’ stories. Previously, we have created GeoJournalism sites focused on the state of the Amazon ( InfoAmazonia.org <infoamazonia.org>), forest/marine/natural disaster in Indonesia (Ekuatorial.com <ekuatorial.com>), and poaching in South Africa ( oxpeckers.org) Most recently, we have been working with a team of South Asian journalists at *The Third Pole* <http://thethirdpole.net>, to launch an open geospatial database focused on Asia's water tower. Located at data.thethirdpole.net, this compendium of scientific data on water issues is sourced from leading organizations <http://data.thethirdpole.net/partners> monitoring water in Asia including ICIMOD, IWMI, and SaciWATERS. We have two articles outline the role and goal of the site here: http://earthjournalism.net/stories/open-data-in-asia2019s-water-tower-data-thethirdpole.net http://www.thethirdpole.net/opening-up-data-sharing-in-asias-water-tower/ In 2015 we are planning on using the data we have collected in combination with new data to create visualization of water issues throughout the region. We certainly hope this presents this community with an opportunity for collaboration. If you have ideas or know where to source open data about water please feel free to contact me Many thanks and best wishes. -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
