At Vizzuality, we are passionate about biodiversity and the natural world. That is why we do what we do. Over the past few years we have made an attempt to work almost entirely on projects that we felt could have a positive impact. Working with amazing teams from GBIF to botanical gardens and from Google to NASA has given us the opportunity to interact with some really amazing people: scientists, engineers, designers, and librarians. Each time, we are humbled and amazed by what these people can accomplish.
Now, we want to share that with you!
With the help of our sponsors and friends, we are organizing an unconference called, EcoHackNYC, on November 4th and 5th at NYU. The purpose of EcoHackNYC is to bring together diverse minds to tackle real global environmental change problems dealing with data analysis, information access, communication, and data visualization. We are already so impressed by the reception from the community.
From our end, we are working with REDD Metrics, Brighter Planet, the Citizen Cyperscience Centre, the Shuttleworth Foundation, and NYU to make a really fun event. More amazing though, some world-class scientists, developers, designers, writers and others have already signed up to give their time freely to environmental and global change projects we haven’t even announced yet! It is these passionate people that we were excited to see come together in the same room. More than that, it is exciting to bring together people and communities that otherwise may not have the opportunity to work with one another. It is the synthesis of the diverse communities that we think could lead to some powerful results.
The event is going to be held at NYU in coordination with friends in the ITP department. We are less than two weeks away, so get involved, sign-up, submit a project, let us know you are interested from afar, tweet #EcoHackNYC!
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