World Chal­len­ge Fin­land 2018

Wel­co­me to the World Chal­len­ge Fin­land 2018

This sum­mer Uni­ted Na­tions and Eu­ro­pean Spa­ce Agen­cy are hos­ting the
World Chal­len­ge com­pe­ti­tion 2018 in Fin­land.

De­sign and build a web app using Web World­Wind with your da­ta or any
open da­ta avai­lab­le from ESA, NA­SA or any ot­her go­vern­ment agen­cy. The
chal­len­ge is to build a web app that will imp­ro­ve li­fe he­re on Earth!
Spe­ci­fic areas of fo­cus are Health, Edu­ca­tion, Cir­cu­lar Eco­no­my,
Sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty and Conf­lict Pre­ven­tion. Mo­re in­for­ma­tion at
www.worldc­hal­len­ge.li­ve. In­cor­po­ra­te sa­tel­li­te da­ta or Un­man­ned Ae­rial
Sys­tems da­ta to map buil­dings, ter­rain, ve­ge­ta­tion ana­ly­ses, ci­ty
uti­li­ties, road sta­tus, and mo­re. Use the da­ta re­sour­ces pro­vi­ded at the
WorldC­hal­len­ge web­si­te, or any spa­tial da­ta that will al­low your web app
to pro­vi­de a new so­lu­tion or an imp­ro­ved so­lu­tion to an ‘old’ prob­lem.

You ha­ve from now un­til 3 rd of Au­gust to sub­mit your pro­ject. The top
teams from all over the world will ha­ve ex­pen­ses paid to vi­sit the ci­ty
of Es­poo, Fin­land for the fi­nals, 27 th to 30 th of Au­gust. The­re will
be grand pri­zes and a chan­ce to work with ESA, NA­SA and UN per­son­nel.
View pre­vious year app­li­ca­tions he­re:
http://worldc­hal­len­ge.li­ve/arc­hi­ve.html and
http://eu­roc­hal­len­ge.co­mo.po­li­mi.it/.

We are al­so loo­king for ex­ci­ting hard­wa­re and soft­wa­re de­signs to be
launc­hed via the In­ter­na­tio­nal Spa­ce Sta­tion. The team with the best
de­sign gets a spon­so­red launch for their pro­ject at the ISS. Furt­her
in­for­ma­tion on this chal­len­ge will be an­noun­ced soon. For mo­re in­fo and
to app­ly http://worldc­hal­len­ge.li­ve/ bef­or­e 3.8.2018. The soo­ner you
send your app­li­ca­tion, the soo­ner our world class GIS team can re­view
your pro­ject de­sign and eva­lua­te if it is chal­len­ging enough to par­ti­ci­pa­te!

Learn mo­re about Web World­Wind he­re:
https://world­wind.arc.na­sa.gov/web/
https://zg­lueck.git­hub.io/works­hop-de­mo/
http://world­wind.earth/