Anne, This is of my topmost interest, since I work for the World Food Programme and I am responsible for a component of Nicaragua´s Programme focused in building resilience of communities from CentralAmerican Dry Corridor. Thank you for the post,
Best Regards, Carlos Rivas Suazo On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Anne Ghisla <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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