You are invited to OPEN GOES COP’s 2nd Webinar

If you’re working at the intersection of openness and climate change, we encourage you to join us. In case you missed our inaugural webinar, we’ve started a movement! The “we” currently includes: Wiki Green Initiatives, Open Knowledge Network, Open Climate Campaign, and Open Data Charter.

We are a coalition of organisations and individuals aiming to advocate for openness in the context of the UN Climate Change Conferences (COP).

We hope to reinvigorate discussions on the role of ‘openness’ as a necessary condition for addressing the climate crisis and to build the capacity of open movement activists and stakeholders from civil society and academia to influence high-level decisions on related issues.

Webinar title: What does openness mean for COP? with the Open Data Charter and Open Knowledge Brazil

In OPEN GOES COP’s next webinar, we’re going to highlight the work of coalition members, the Open Data Charter (ODC) and Diários do Clima (Climate Diaries) by Open Knowledge Brazil.

The ODC works with governments and civil society organisations to open up data purposefully, while protecting the data rights of communities and people. ODC’s Executive Director, Natalia Carfi, will be discussing how openness in research and data availability can add value to our cause. They will discuss a recent project Uruguay 2100, which seeks to tell a story of how sea level rise will affect the Uruguayan coast by the year 2100. To do this, the team created maps showing the areas at risk of flooding in Montevideo by collecting and analysing data that was made publicly available.

Diários do Clima is a platform capable of aggregating environmental policy data to help search for acts published by Brazilian municipalities. Using technological automation, they monitor official gazettes to identify the most relevant documents for those following the issue. Each act is categorised and organised so that users can filter and receive alerts on topics and locations of interest.

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