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<p>Dear colleagues,<br>
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<p>"The GODAN Local Farming Challenge 2017 – Bringing geoinnovation for solving Zero Hunger" was launched at Geospatial World Forum 2017 [1] in Hyderabad, India by André Laperrière (Executive Director, GODAN) during his keynote on 23rd Jan 2017. Local Farming
is an important aspect in sustainability and hence we are launching the GODAN Challenge welcoming students to come up with innovative ideas like mapping for optimal linking of local farming community directly with potential customers , tools for visualising
spatio-temporal aspects of local farming , tools for helping reducing wastage (for example linking with local food banks) etc for helping find solutions to Zero Hunger aim.<br>
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It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science [3] were propounded. They build upon the proposition of Open science which promotes that scientific knowledge of all kinds develops more rapidly and productively if openly shared (as
early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients that make Open Geospatial Science possible are enshrined in Open Principles, i.e: Open Source geospatial software, Open data, Open standards ,Open educational resources, and Open access to
research publications.<br>
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Nearly 800 million people struggle with debilitating hunger and malnutrition in every corner of the globe. That’s one in every nine people, with the majority being women and children. We are convinced that the solution to Zero Hunger lies within existing, but
often unavailable, agriculture and nutrition data. The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) [4] supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with
the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security. Through the GODAN -NASA Europa Challenge [5],[6],[7] we want to bring together brought together researchers and students to work on innovative ideas around a collaboration on agriculture and nutrition
data openness.<br>
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<p>We look forward to active participation for all interested for the "The GODAN Local Farming Challenge 2017 – Bringing geoinnovation for solving Zero Hunger". Call info at
<a href="http://www.godan.info/news/godan-nasa-europa-student-challenge-announcement" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk325039" previewremoved="true">
http://www.godan.info/news/godan-nasa-europa-student-challenge-announcement</a> <br>
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<p>For more details contact Suchith.Anand@godan.info <br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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Dr. Suchith Anand<br>
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<p><a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk676291" previewremoved="true">http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/</a>
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GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science<br>
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<p>[1] <a href="http://geospatialworldforum.org/geoagri.asp" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk393378" previewremoved="true">
http://geospatialworldforum.org/geoagri.asp</a> <br>
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<p>[2] <a href="http://www.godan.info/working-groups/capacity-development" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk947425" previewremoved="true">
http://www.godan.info/working-groups/capacity-development</a> <br>
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<p>[3] <a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk180941" previewremoved="true">
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications</a> <br>
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<p>[4] <a href="http://www.godan.info" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk492509" previewremoved="true">
http://www.godan.info</a> <br>
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<p>[5] <a href="http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk562334" previewremoved="true">
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/</a> <br>
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<p>[6] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk349715" previewremoved="true">
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart</a> <br>
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<p>[7] <a href="http://www.geoforall.org" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk811550" previewremoved="true">
http://www.geoforall.org</a> <br>
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