Thanks for sharing, Nico. All- of course you are eligible. I may have to waive my input into your potential submissions due to conflict of interest.
Rahul- please note. Heather On Mar 7, 2014 5:53 AM, "nicolas chavent" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:46 AM > Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] Impact Stories Competition (Open Data) > To: crisismappers <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > > 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 <[email protected]>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 >> [email protected] >> 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 >> [email protected] >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> 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: [email protected] > Email: [email protected] > 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: [email protected] > Email: [email protected] > Skype: c_nicolas > Twitter: nicolas_chavent > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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