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Eye on Earth Summit
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[|Does the #EOESUMMIT15 have livestreaming/archived video of the presentations?]

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Eye on Earth (EoE) is taking three winners to the 2015 EoE Summit in Abu Dhabi to show off their environmental vision to global movers and shakers who can put them in motion. **Make Yourself and the Environment a Winner by:** **So which one will you enter?** 1. **Data Visualization** : Are you an artist, designer, or a creative? This challenge invites you to submit data visualizations that interpret the social and economic effects of poor air quality, oceanic warming and natural disasters. Examples can include paintings and other artistic interpretations, as well as infographics, 3D models, computer simulations, interactive maps and diagrams. The winning team will be given the opportunity to present their work at the Eye on Earth Summit. 2. **Blog Competition** : If writing is more your style, tell us your vision or experience of "A better world through knowledge and information”, in 750 - 1,000 words posted on your blog and shared with Eye on Earth. The winner of the blog competition will travel to the Summit in Abu Dhabi as the official blogger, and have the opportunity to report live on the event for the global public. **//… What Does your Vision Look Like?//**  **Enter now and let us celebrate your ideas.**  [|www.eoesummit.org/challenges/data-innovation/]
 * **Eye on Earth blog and data visualization competitions now open!**
 * Writing a blog entry; or
 * Creating an image that explains data

[|www.eoesummit.org/challenges/blog-competition/] Entries close August 20, 2015.

These are the first two in a series of competitions launched by the Eye on Earth Alliance, in the lead up to the Summit to be held in Abu Dhabi on October 6-8, 2015. The Alliance is a collaborative effort between UNEP, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi through the Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI) the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Resources Institute (WRI). || ==Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi to boost environmental information for decision-makers == 14 April 2015 | News story

**Over 650 delegates from government, UN bodies, the non-governmental sector, private sector, academia and civil society will gather in Abu Dhabi between 6 and 8 October for the Eye on Earth Summit 2015, to bridge the information gap policy makers face in designing plans for sustainable development.**

http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/species/?20142/Eye-on-Earth-Summit-in-Abu-Dhabi-to-Boost-Environmental-Information-for-Decision-makers

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