Presentation at GB21 Science Symposium on Ebbe Nielsen Challenge

1. Ebbe Nielsen GBIF Challenge
Rod Page
Chair GBIF Science Committee

2. What is a “challenge”?

3. A task-specific competition with
one or more prizes

4. Prize Grant
Money
Output
Challenge

5. Who uses challenges?

8. What might we expect from the
challenge?

9. New visualisations

10. Global Forest Watch

11. red = forest loss
purple = forest loss and gain
blue = forest gain

12. New data types

14. Stuff we haven’t thought of
(that’s why we are having a challenge)

15. How does the challenge work?

16. Challenge Topic
• First challenge topic is open (innovative use of
GBIF-mobilised data)
• Future challenges could be more specific

17. Who can take part?
• Open to all
– except GBIF secretariat staff, members of Science
Committee, etc.
• Individuals
• Teams
• Companies

18. GBIF Science Committee
Elizabeth Arnaud Guy Cochrane Mark Costello Jean Ganglo
Rod Page Arturo Ariño Plana Kathy Willis ex officio

19. Prizes!
• Round 1 (five semifinalists) (SC meeting)
– €1,000
• Round 2 (GB22)
– €20,000 first prize
– €5,000 second prize

20. Stay tuned for launch
(real soon now)