GEO has announced the GEO Indigenous COVID-19 Hackathon 2020, a project that involves developing a series of virtual hackathons in various Indigenous and under-represented communities with the intent of co-designing locally relevant EO-based challenges that are culturally appropriate to indigenous beliefs and conceptions about diseases. The challenges will take place during 5-7 June 2020.
The main goals of this project are to:
Raise awareness of Indigenous Peoples’ specific needs and priorities in tackling COVID-19;
Promote the use of open EO data among Indigenous communities to address issues associated with COVID-19 and longer-term problems;
Enhance and strengthen Indigenous/local culture through the use of EO data and ICTs;
Provide the GEO community with novel approaches to utilize EO data to address the current pandemic at a local scale.
