Eye on Earth - the global citizen observatory EEA- Microsoft partnership

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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EOE 2009: Ratings, Comments, Images, and Webcams

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 MSN sites showing EOE

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

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