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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">The Group on Earth Observations is proud to announce the winning teams from the GEO Indigenous Hack4Covid [1]. </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">From
June 5-7 teams joined the GEO Indigenous Alliance and Indigenous leaders and communities from around the world to produce solutions to crowdsourced challenges developed through a process of co-design. More information about the Hackathon can be found
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">A big thank you to the GEO Indigenous Alliance and to all the Indigenous leaders who participated in the hackathon and co-designed a challenge and all mentors.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">More details at </span><span style="color:#454545"><a href="https://www.earthobservations.org/geo_blog_obs.php?id=440"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">https://www.earthobservations.org/geo_blog_obs.php?id=440</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Indigenous Peoples’ Community of Practice promotes knowledge sharing to improve Indigenous peoples’ access and inclusion in the development of geospatial tools for sustainable
natural resource management. Details at </span><a href="https://geoipcop.org"><span style="text-decoration:underline; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">https://geoipcop.org</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Background on Earth observations for Indigenous communities at
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">GEO Work Programme activities, GEO Members, Participating Organizations and Associates are using Earth observations (EO) to support response and recovery actions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">You can find details at </span><span style="color:#454545"><a href="https://www.earthobservations.org/covid19.php"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">https://www.earthobservations.org/covid19.php</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Suchith</span></p>
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