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ORGANIZATION: International Environmental Data Rescue Org.
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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ORGANIZATION -
7 people are interested
Person familiar with building computer games attractive to teenagers.
We are developing an internet-based crowd-sourcing effort to entice volunteers to digitize old weather data. Check out the website of OLDWEATHER.ORG. We are developing a similar site but the data we need to be keyed into a keying format is not nearly as "interesting" to the volunteer keyer as the data on this site. Therefore we think we need the construction of a computer game to entice site visitors to play our "game" which would result in the critical data being keyed.
We need a volunteer familiar with programming in the area of computer games.
Work could be from home via the internet and/or from IEDRO Headquarters in Deale, Maryland (just south of Annapolis). Although the position is a volunteer one, there is a good possibility of some funding becoming available for a small monthly stipend if the volunteer proves to be an asset to our organization. The work this volunteer would be doing will help us provide a critical asset to rescuing and digitizing data that will be used in studies of global warming, disease spread and elimination of starvation. YOU will make a significant difference in the lessening of the suffering of many people throughout the world.
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About International Environmental Data Rescue Org.
Location:
20 Ocean Street, Jonesport, ME 04649, US
Mission Statement
Our Mission is to find, rescue, and digitize all historical environmental data and to make those data available to the world. We assist the scientific and educational communities of mainly developing countries locate, rescue and digitize all environmental data currently at risk on perishable media and to make those digitized data freely and openly available to the world scientific and educational communities before those data are gone forever.
Description
The International Environmental Data Rescue Organization, IEDRO, is a non-profit organization that assists the scientific and educational communities of mainly developing countries to locate, rescue and digitize all their environmental data currently at risk on perishable media and to make those digitized data freely and openly available to the world scientific and educational communities before those data are lost forever.
After the US Government ceased its support to rescue and digitize these critical historic weather records, IEDRO continued the scientifically critical work as a separate non-profit endeavor using private funds mainly from charitable foundations and individuals helping us gather data to give researchers a better understanding of climate change and global warming, to help prevent starvation, improve flood and mud slide forecasts, to forecast the spread of diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever.
Our activities include the discovery, rescue and digitization of foreign environmental data, mainly meteorological (weather) observations, now residing on paper, microfilm and microfiche and magnetic tapes.
We support scientific research and operations in meteorology, hydrology, climatology with additional support to the fields of agriculture, ornithology, oceanography, disease control, rural development, transportation, construction, disaster preparedness and especially climate change and global warming throughout the world.
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This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
June 1, 2016
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
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