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<p>Dear Board members,</p>
<p>I'm writing you this mail to ask a letter of support from OSGeo for an international project I'm submitting to the Belmont Forum by 29.02.2024.</p>
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<p>The project, named CLIMESHED, aims at <span>Empowering Disadvantaged Communities with Sustainable Water Monitoring and Data Exploitation for Climate Change by developing an Open Source platform to collect, manage, process and present environmental data.</span></p>
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<p><span>T</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">he proposed platform to be developed will be extensively based on FOSS4G (istSOS, pyGeoapi, geoPandas, etc.) and OGC standards (SensorThingsAPI, OGC API Features, WaterML, GeoParquet, etc.).</span></p>
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<div>Here a short summary: <span style="font-size: 12pt;">This project addresses the challenges faced by disadvantaged communities of middle/low-income countries/regions in disposing of sustainable, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">FAIR, completed, updated
and reliable data monitoring and distribution systems on local water quality and quantity. This hinders the understanding, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">planning and evaluation of mitigation actions of negative impacts of climate change on ecosystems
and human health. We propose to experiment and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">demonstrate a meshed Open Source solution combining authoritative, low-cost and citizen-science approaches rooted in Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and
open science principles.</span></div>
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<p>Looking forward for any feedback or request.</p>
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<p>Best regard,</p>
<p>Maxi</p>
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