[FOSS4G2016] Open data and UN

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi Volker,

looks like an interesting thing. What we still can offer, would be 
available slots for topictalks.

I could contact these guys, perhaps we can lump them together with 
others in one topic talk?

Till


Am 2016-04-07 08:47, schrieb Volker Mische:
> Hi LOC,
>
> I just stumbled upon a nice data portal "The Humanitarian
> Data Exchange" [1], which is done by the UN Office for the 
> Coordination
> of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA). They've also plenty of things of 
> they
> actual platform open source [2].
>
> Given open data is a topic for the FOSS4G and we are in an UN city it
> would be great get something about it into the conference.
>
> I know there are lots of data portals out there, but not many of them
> are well done and often (important for me at least) they are not
> developing the platforms itself as open source, but only use open 
> source
> components.
>
> Any thoughts (even if they are "we already have enough stuff already" 
> :)?
>
> [1]: https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/
> [2]: https://github.com/OCHA-DAP
>
> Cheers,
>   Volker
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