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Digital Earth: What the hack?</b><br>
AGILE 2014 Workshop on advancing co-creation in smart cities<br>
3 June 2014, Castellón, Spain<br>
Website: <a href="http://kartoweb.itc.nl/agilehackworkshop/">http://kartoweb.itc.nl/agilehackworkshop/</a><br>
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<b>Objective</b><br>
For more than five years, hackathons, hack days, hackfests and the
like have been revolutionising software development all across our
planet. However, hackathons only succeed if they are well prepared.
They need a well-defined focus - including available data sets,
programming language and operating system to be used, challenges to
be addressed, etc.<br>
This workshop will elaborate on the possibilities of using
geospatial information and processing across multiple sectors, and
thereby implementing Digital Earth applications, i.e. applications
of next-generation Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial
Data Infrastructure (SDI). With this event, we initiate a
coordinated discussion on the topic and through published guidelines
prepare the ground for organizing future hackathons and mapathons.
We will particularly investigate possibilities for organizing
parallel events as competitions between (smart) cities.<br>
After the event, we intent to co-author a white paper on the
identified issues, our joint conclusions and possible follow up
activities.<br>
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<b>Your contribution</b><br>
For optimal use of our joint time, we invite everybody to submit
questions (<a
href="http://kartoweb.itc.nl/agilehackworkshop/question.html#box-what">http://kartoweb.itc.nl/agilehackworkshop/question.html#box-what</a>)
that he/she proposes as kick-off questions for roundtable
discussions during the workshop, questions which directly address
issues to be considered in the organization of future
hack-/mapathons. We also invite you to provide a brief and concise
explanation about the relevance of your discussion question
(Deadline: 20 May 2014). Participants will have the chance to
briefly present their questions and a sub-set will be selected for
detailed discussion during a World Café.<br>
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Submission of questions can be done on the workshop website (<a
href="http://kartoweb.itc.nl/agilehackworkshop/">http://kartoweb.itc.nl/agilehackworkshop/</a>).
Here you also find the preliminary workshop program and further
information.<br>
For questions please feel free to contact the organisers:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:r.l.g.lemmens@utwente.nl">r.l.g.lemmens@utwente.nl</a><br>
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We are looking forward to meeting you in Spain!<br>
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Rob Lemmens, University of Twente - ITC<br>
Sven Schade, European Commission - JRC<br>
Florian Hillen, University of Osnabrück<br>
Christine Richter, University of Amsterdam<br>
Bernhard Höfle, University of Heidelberg<br>
Yola Georgiadou, University of Twente - ITC <br>
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Florian Hillen, M.Sc.
Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (IGF)
University of Osnabrueck
Barbarastr. 22b
D-49076 Osnabrueck
Germany
Phone: +49 541 969-3927
Fax: +49 541 969-3939
E-Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fhillen@igf.uos.de">fhillen@igf.uos.de</a>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.igf.uni-osnabrueck.de">www.igf.uni-osnabrueck.de</a></pre>
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