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EEA-Microsoft collaboration to launch series of environment applications impacting quality of life and raising environmental awareness. Cooperation under Climate Observatory Initiative for 5 years.
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Eye on Earth - the global citizen observatoryEEA- Microsoft partnership http://www.eyeonearth.eu/ paolo.meozzi@eea.europa.eu
Microsoft – 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 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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MSN sites showing EOE • 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
EyeOnEarth 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 2 • Technical launch on 18 November 2009 • Public launch 11 December 2009 • http://eyeonearth/.eu
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