Hi all,
Apologies for cross posting, but I think that Heather's post to crisis mappers may also call for discussion in HOT. The crowdgov initiative and its USD 100 reward by story, can also work as a super mini grant but still impactive for its Author specifically in poor countries in Haiti WesternAfrica-Central Africa. Maybe worthy of action on our end and surely a great learning way for local and hot folks to co-work on with paid tribute to be left to locals and the increase of knowledge shared with all. Best, Nico ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: nicolas chavent <nicolas.chav...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] Impact Stories Competition (Open Data) To: crisismappers <crisismapp...@googlegroups.com> Cc: rahul.gh...@okfn.org Hi Heather, Great initiative and many thanks to share with the list. The more I have been directly working over the last year from Haiti to Africa (Senegal, Chad, Togo, Burkina-Faso) building, strengthening, supporting in a variety of ways local OSM groups active from ecosystems composed of Academics (mostly Departments of Geography), tech groups of various forms (Co-working spaces, Academic Computer Labs, FreeSoftwareAssociations), local government and COB/NGO related to some International Actors, the more I deeply felt the need for better documentation, knowledge and information dissemination around : * Open data - community re-use stories [1] * Open data - government re-use stories [2] * Open data and Open Source Software movements *tout court* and from the Basics, those points are still way to new and not widely enough known and discussed outside of circle, we are still *minoritaires*. * Multi lingual documentation and for the areas where I have been working in dire need to have French as well as Local (HT Kreyol) or African regional language being translated into from English. Such documents as well as more similar documents on DHN activities and key achievements (reports/ white papers) can really help us crisis mappers to make an even higher impact while operating (remotely or on_the_ground) and create autonomous self standing groups/ communities well articulated to our global forum, and its various members. I'd be happy to learn more on key resources at hand anf find the best fashion to get non_English speaking communities sharing stories as well as benefitting in return from the efforts (reports, articles, papers and other products) into their language so that our global efforts are better appreciated, our virtues better known and through the *immanent_power_of_virtues* our collective actions gain more chance to inspire thinkers and doers of this Earth to add to our thinking and action. Exciting project, Thanks for those at the Origin of the Initiative, Best, Nico [1] = http://crowdgov.wordpress.com/the-survey/ [2] = http://okfn.org/pod/impact-stories-competition/ On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Heather Leson <heatherle...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Folks, > > The Partnership for Open Data <http://okfn.org/pod/> (a partnership > between the World Bank, Open Data Institute and Open Knowledge Foundation) > is seeking to recognize great community stories around Open Data. > > More Details: > *http://okfn.org/pod/impact-stories-competition/*<http://okfn.org/pod/impact-stories-competition/> > > > Closing Date: March 24, 2014 > > Eligibility: Successful candidate stories need to be from the global south > (or, as I like to call it: the majority world) > > If you can share within your networks, I would appreciate it. > > Rahul (cc'ed) is our point of contact at Open Knowledge Foundation. > > Thanks! > > Heather > > Heather Leson > heatherle...@gmail.com > Twitter: HeatherLeson > Blog: textontechs.com > > -- > CrisisMappers | The Humanitarian Technology Network > http://www.CrisisMappers.net > > To subscribe, follow this link: > https://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers > To unsubscribe, please send email to > crisismappers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > Visit CrisisMappers at: > http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CrisisMappers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to crisismappers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to crisismapp...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Nicolas Chavent Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 Email: nicolas.chav...@hotosm.org Email: nicolas.chav...@gmail.com Skype: c_nicolas Twitter: nicolas_chavent -- Nicolas Chavent Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 Email: nicolas.chav...@hotosm.org Email: nicolas.chav...@gmail.com Skype: c_nicolas Twitter: nicolas_chavent
_______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
