UN Global Pulse, a United Nations initiative seeking innovation in big data projects, and IT data storage maker Western Digital have shaken hands on a project to launch a competition called the Data for Climate Action challenge.
Data for Climate Action is an open innovation challenge to use data science and big data from the private sector to fight climate change. Data scientists, researchers and innovators from around the world are encouraged to apply and submit their proposals at DataForClimateAction.org by April 10.
With support from the Skoll Global Threats Fund, this global challenge has galvanized a diverse coalition of companies from multiple industries and countries to participate through acts of data philanthropy. The challenge will offer researchers an opportunity to gain unprecedented access to national, regional, and global datasets–anonymized and aggregated to protect privacy–and first-rate tools to support their research.
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