Hello all,
let me forward the call for mentoring related to Code for Resilience (C4R), an initiative co-founded by the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and ICT Unit (TWICT), and Code for Japan. The initiative is partnering local technologists with disaster risk management (DRM) experts to strengthen community resilience to natural disasters through the creation of civic-minded digital and hardware solutions. http://codeforresilience.org/page/about http://codeforresilience.org/blog Read about Code for Resilience events held in Peshawar, Dhaka, and three cities in Japan in this World Bank feature story http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/02/03/hackathons-tech-savvy-innovators-asia-disaster-resilience or this write-up in DevEx https://www.devex.com/en/blogs/2529/blogs_entries/82840?source=MostPopularNews_5 Stay up to date on the next hackathon events by following @Code4Resilience on Twitter. OSGeo is invited to participate as well: developers and contributors can take part to local events, and/or participate to the third part of the initiative, namely the Online innovation challenge. C4R organisers look for mentors from various domains (web, app development..) - people who can guide development and provide expertise. This is an exciting opportunity to interface directly with some of the developers who are hard at work building tools that address the challenges we have identified as key to improving community resilience to natural disasters. Mentors will be required to provide skill-specific and/or sector expertise to teams seeking counsel on how best to build their tool/app to meet a specific disaster resilience need. The mentoring time frame is from early March to mid-May. The deadline for mentor registration is this Thursday - sorry for short notice. If you wish to become a mentor, please send a mail to me and Adele (in CC). Thanks in advance for your help! Best regards, Anne -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla
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