On December 2nd, 2011 the World Bank Group announced the launch of a new “Apps for Climate” competition, to discover extraordinary ways to use open climate data. The competition encourages scientists, software developers, development practitioners and others to create applications that use open data to help solve the development problems that climate change poses. It aims to promote innovative use of open climate data – for example, through apps that help understand and manage weather-related disasters, to agriculture, food and water supplies, rising sea levels and other climate related development challenges.
Detailed rules are available on the competition website but developers should make some use of the World Bank’s data resources on climate change – including data on climate systems, exposure to climate impacts, resilience, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy use - available from a dedicated page. Some of these data are used in the World Bank’s Climate Change Knowledge Portal, which includes visualization tools depicting temperature and rainfall scenarios to the year 2100 and links users to more than 250 climate indicators and to risk profiles for 31 countries.
Cash prizes will be awarded to winning entries. Apps must be submitted by March 16, 2012.
Apps for Climate is the second global apps competition held by the World Bank Group. On April 14, 2011, the winners of the first World Bank apps competition - Apps for Development - were announced, following submission of 107 apps from 36 countries across every continent.
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