山形俊男先生からFEに関する貴重な情報が届きました。 氷見山
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既にご存知かもしれませんがご参考までにお送りいたします。 FEのco-work, co-designの影響と思いますが、
Cloud computing network関係でAmazonが以下のようなグラントを用意しているようです。
AGUもglobal changeと地域共同体の関係で絡んできているようです。 教育関係でも国際ネットワーク企業と連携した新しい動きが出てきていますね。 山形 http://aws.amazon.com/jp/grants/?nc1=h_ls http://aws.amazon.com/grants/?nc1=h_ls https://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=1040241910&message_id=11102628&user_id=AGU_&group_id=2128611&jobid=29943979 ---- To Sharing Science, American Geophysical Union's Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX), in association with Amazon Web Services (AWS), is helping scientists, leaders, and technologists use cloud computing to advance Earth and space science solutions. Through this work, grants will be provided to exemplary co-designed solutions that address local challenges related to natural resources, climate change and natural hazards. These grants will help move local solutions to the cloud, with technical support, so each solution can be adapted by and improved upon by other teams in other communities facing similar challenges. The submission deadline is 16 October. In order to enter, please complete your name and email address and click the 'save and continue later' button. A member of the TEX team will then contact you to discuss next steps on how best to complete your submission. Prizes Four winners will receive $15,000 in grant funds to use AWS on-demand cloud services. Terms and conditions for grant use, apply: http://aws.amazon.com/education/terms/. Teams will also win the opportunity to attend the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting and inspire future innovation by presenting at the Sharing Solutions Event in March 2016. Selected Projects All four winning projects will be selected by a multidisciplinary panel of judges. Three winning projects must be a working prototype designed to enable policy makers, city planners, citizens, or scientists to address local or regional challenges related to natural resources, climate change or natural hazards. An additional winner will be selected for student engagement; this project should encourage the use of technology to improve k-12 and/or college student participation in solving any of the challenge areas above. Learn more and apply at: http://thrivingearthexchange.org/sharing-solutions/ Toshio Yamagata