“(G)EO hackathon: engaging indigenous communities”
2019-08-30, 10:00–10:20, Opereta Room

(G)EO Hack 19 is an innovative hackathon at the interface of traditional and scientific knowledge that will take place during the GEO Ministerial Summit.The EO-based challenges will be co-designed by indigenous youth communities throughout the world to encourage the co-development of innovative EO-based applications that are locally relevant and enhance the communities way of learning. The primary goals of the activity are to promote the use of open EO data among indigenous communities and ultimately to co-design locally relevant free and open source software that promote new means for aligning local/ traditional knowledge and science co-production across cultural and generational lines.