[Geo4All] Hackathon on OpenStreetMap

[Marco Minghini]

 [Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear GeoForAll colleagues,
I am sending this e-mail to inform you about a hackathon on OpenStreetMap,
organised by the United Nations and the European Commission in which I am
involved as a Mentor.

I would appreciate it if you can disseminate the message below and promote
the hackathon within your networks.

Many thanks!
Kind regards,
Marco

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You are cordially invited by the United Nations - Office of Information and
Communication Technologies (OICT) and the Directorate-General for
Informatics of European Commission (DG DIGIT) to participate in the *“Open
Source Software 4 Sustainable Development Goals (OSS4SDG): SDG# 11
Sustainable Cities and Communities” Hackathon*, which will take place from *3
to 31 October*. This second innovation competition of the OSS4SDG
initiative is launched in partnership with the OpenStreetMap (OSM)
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright> project and aims at tackling
challenges related to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 Sustainable
Cities and Communities <https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal11>.

For the last decades, the world has been experiencing the largest wave of
urban growth in history. At this pace, it is expected that by 2050 around
6.5 billion people — two-thirds of all humanity — will be living in urban
areas. Much of this growth has led to a boom in mega-cities, bringing new
opportunities and access to diverse goods and services available to its
citizens. However, this exponential growth in the population has also
triggered social, economic and environmental challenges. Cities have become
home to high concentrations of poverty, causing inequality, and resulting
in wealthy communities coexisting (separately) alongside from slums and
informal settlements.



To monitor these complex urbanization process and facilitate sustainable
growth, the United Nations and the European Union Commission have
implemented diverse Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and other mapping
technologies such as OpenStreetMap. This has proved to effectively
illustrate surface areas (through maps and diagrams) and help to evaluate
progress on the SDGs agenda to create a better world. To this end, the EC
and the UN effort at democratizing access to open data and cartographic
techniques that individuals and governments can use to better understand
the work being done by both organizations towards achieving sustainability.



The Hackathon includes 7 challenges and participants can submit a solution
to any of them by October 31, 2022. The winners will receive *a total prize
of 10 thousand euros*. All information, including instructions to
participate as well as evaluation criteria, is available at the Hackathon
page at https://ideas.unite.un.org/sdg11/Page/Overview.
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