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I received this email notification regarding a Climate Change App Competition via the "osgeo" email list yesterday. I am sure GIS or spatial technologies will form a big part of this app..............

Applications for Climate Competition The Apps for Climate Competition is sponsored by the World Bank.  The competition encourages scientists, software developers, development practitioners and others to create applications (for instance, websites, mobile apps, Facebook apps, etc) that leverage open data to help address climate challenges in some way, with cash prizes for winning entries. The submission deadline is 16 March 2012, and winners will be announced in June. The competition is open to individuals, teams and organizations.  More information, including criteria, official rules, and updates, is available at http://worldbank.org/appsforclimate or on Twitter at #apps4climate. On February 14th there will be an online "live chat" event, in which World Bank climate and data experts will field questions about specific data sets, the competition, using the application programming interfaces (APIs), etc. We'll be set up to field questions in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic. Answers will be given online in real time, and the complete transcript will be available immediately after the event.  For more information, go to http://bit.ly/appsforclimatehelpdesk. You can also post questions in advance. If you have any questions please contact Tim Herzog, Open Data Specialist, World Bank at therzog1@worldbank.org, Tel: +1 (202) 473-1701.