Planet OS to present Sustainable Development Goal solution at the UN Solutions Summit
Our long-term vision at Planet OS is to index the real world.
We believe indexing all of the world’s earth and environmental data will drive sustainable decisions in Earth observation, agriculture and marine ecosystems, energy production and consumption, logistics and transportation, manufacturing and communications.
For the past year we have been building a revolutionary search engine that indexes large-scale earth observation data drawn from increasing amounts of smart instrumentation deployed in the atmosphere, oceans, seas, on land, and in space. This new platform will bring vast new amounts of information to the fingertips of the world’s governments, private enterprises, researchers, students, and anyone else searching for data.
Today we are honored to announce that we have been chosen to present this work at the United Nations Solutions Summit this Sunday, September 27th at the UN Headquarters in New York City.
Applications were received from over 100 countries and we are humbled to be chosen among a truly impressive cohort of solutions.
The Solutions Summit is an inaugural special event at the 70th UN General Assembly and celebrates the completion of the UN Sustainable Development Summit to be held September 25–27th. This year the Sustainable Development Summit will formally ratify a new set of 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals — also known as Global Goals — that are aimed at providing global dignity, prosperity, partnership, and justice for all people and the planet. As the culminating event of the weekend, the Solutions Summit will highlight 14 exceptional innovators and solutions that address one or more of these 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The event will also catalyze a grassroots effort to allow communities and resources to convene around the solutions chosen.
Our CEO Rainer Sternfeld will give a “lightning talk” at the Summit’s Solution Workshop outlining our work to senior policymakers setting innovative new regulations, investors deeply committed to long-term environmental sustainability, and industry leaders who are able to act as partners to help us deploy and scale such a solution.
Our team also looks forward to meeting with and learning from the other solutions that will be presented at the event. The full list of solutions to be presented at the Solutions Workshop as are as follows:
African Prisons Project — Uganda
Legislation Lab — Morocco
African Design Centers — Rwanda
Baidu Recycle — China
Floating Fab Lab — Amazon — Peru
Abze Solar S.A. — Burkina Faso
BioCarbon Engineering — United Kingdom
Supercomputing & Food Security — Australia
ColdHubs — Nigeria
SM Sehgal Foundation Recharge Well — India
Banka BioLoo — India
BORN Project — United States of America
APOPO — Belgium
Planet OS — Estonia
Originally published at planetos.com on September 23, 2015.
