[FOSS4G2016] Open data and UN

[Volker Mische]

Hi Till,

I'll send them an email. We'll see.

Cheers,
  Volker

On 04/07/2016 11:21 AM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
> 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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