Crowdsourcing more detailed information about local buildings in Ottawa
Statistics Canada, the national statistics agency, has turned to crowdsourcing in the hope of procuring more detailed information about local buildings in Ottawa.
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Scent at GEO-XIII Plenary in St. Petersburg
Scent joined discussions on global Earth observation initiatives at the 13th Plenary Session of the Group on Earth Observations – GEO (GEO-XIII) on 7th – 10th November, 2016, in St. Petersburg.
The crowdsourcing movement to improve African maps
An initiative in Africa has begun crowdsourcing data from the public in order to banish the frequent “data not found” holes common in the continent’s cartography.
First Scent project meeting held in Athens
The Scent kick-off meeting was hosted by the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS) in Athens between the 14th and 15th September, 2016. All ten project partners and the European Commission were represented at the two-day meeting hosted by the project coordinator ICCS in the Greek capital.
“Serious Games,” the Future of Training, Research, and Democracy, Have Arrived
In an article for inverse.com, Sarah Sloat draws attention to how serious gaming is becoming a serious business.