Eye on Earth - the global citizen observatoryEye on Earth - the global citizen observatoryEEA- Microsoft partnershipEEA- Microsoft partnership

http://www.eyeonearth.eu/

paolo.meozzi@eea.europa.eu

Microsoft – EEA ObservatoryMicrosoft – EEA Observatory

EEA-MS Partnership announcement – Portoroz, Slovenia 14 May 2008 Vision – Elicit a Climate Observatory Initiative by launching a series of environment applications to impact people’s quality of life as well as a series of joint marketing activities to create environmental awareness amongst governments and the broad public.

Scope - Cooperation under the Climate Observatory Initiative, to be implemented by cooperation agreements and statements of services.

Duration - Five years

First EEA-Microsoft Cooperation AgreementFirst EEA-Microsoft Cooperation Agreement

Portal on Bathing Water quality - Built on MS technologies using EEA data.

Main Futures – Bing maps, Water Quality ratings, Near-real time data, User Ratings, User Comments, Search for location, Gadget download

Languages – EN, IT, DE, PT, NL, EL, SP, FR, SV, DA

V1 Launch – July 2008

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Engaging citizens Engaging citizens

Complicated

Mundane

Data

knowledge

wisdom

Aggregated

Differentiated

Information

EOE 2009: Ratings, Comments, Images, and WebcamsEOE 2009: Ratings, Comments, Images, and Webcams

MSN is a popular Web site which appeals to the general public

MSN is provided in many languages

There are 23 MSN instances in Europe & Middle East: Arabia, Austria, Belgium (Dutch), Belgium (French), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland (German), Switzerland (French), Turkey, United Kingdom

MSN sites showing EOEMSN sites showing EOE

EyeOnEarth Version 2: ready by Nov 2009EyeOnEarth Version 2: ready by Nov 2009

SMS notifications

Bathing Water and Air Quality

Near-real time data

Silverlight

Virtual hosting - Windows Azure cloud OS

10 MSN Channels

Air quality model data for all Europe

Social-Nets integration (Twitter, Face-book, Live)

EyeOnEarth Version 2EyeOnEarth Version 2

Technical launch on 18 November 2009

Public launch 11 December 2009

http://eyeonearth/.eu

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