SSHRC launches the first Human Dimensions Open Data Challenge

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SSHRC launches the first Human Dimensions Open Data Challenge

Tracey P. Lauriault

SSHRC launches the first Human Dimensions Open Data Challenge

http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/society-societe/community-communite/hdodc-ddodh-eng.aspx

Deadline: March 31, 2016

 

SSHRC has partnered with Compute Canada, Ontario Centres of Excellence and ThinkData Works to launch the first “Human Dimensions Open Data Challenge” in January 2016.

 

Organized as part of SSHRC’s Imagining Canada’s Future initiative, this challenge seeks to address the following question:

 

What data, technology or process initiatives will mitigate or address critical business, policy, and social challenges in Canada’s natural resources and energy sectors through 2035?

 

Through this challenge, researchers in social sciences and humanities will lead multidisciplinary teams to respond to this question, and to find solutions to the related Future Challenge Area that focuses on energy and natural resourcesThe teams will address one or more of the following themes under this challenge area:

 

•Community engagement

•HR, skills and competencies and mobility gaps

•Sustainability

 

Visit the Compute Canada website for more information on how to participate and to register your team for an account.


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Tracey P. Lauriault
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Critical Media Studies and Big Data
Communication Studies
School of Journalism and Communication
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Carleton University
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