Hack-the-Arctic hackathon

  • Stephany N. Buenrostro Mazon (Chair of organizing committee)

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Description

#HackTheArctic used Arctic environmental data to design a service for society, policy-making or business. The event involved 9 international data partners, including data providers to European research infrastructure consortia ENVRI Community, ICOS, Arctic Data Center (USA), Arctic SDIs offices (Finland, Sweden, Iceland).

It hosted ~130 participants from +30 countries and 27 final submitted projects as a results of the hackathon.

#HackTheArctic Challenges are:
(1) Map the Arctic dataset coverage,
(2) design data-based solutions for policy-makers or (3) citizens,
(4) explore Svalbard as a case study, and
(5) Arctic Haze (pollution) and science visualization tools.

Organised by INAR -University of Helsinki (www.helsinki.fi/en/inar), ICOS (www.icos-cp.eu) and ENVRI Community (https://envri.eu/).
Period12 Mar 2021 → 14 Mar 2021
Event typeOther
LocationHelsinki, FinlandShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

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