Cutting edge technologies and data analysis to support policy-making on environmental and socioeconomic monitoring.

The primary vision of the WaterInnEU project is creating a marketplace to enhance the exploitation of EU funded ICT models, tools, protocols and policy briefs related to water and to establish suitable conditions for new market opportunities based on these offerings. Randbee was the leader of one the project work packages dealing with the e-learning platform. We developed the entire e-learning module, based in Drupal, and also designed and prepared all multimedia and digital materials for each course.

For more information about the courses available, please visit the marketplace at:   https://marketplace.waterinneu.org/en/e-learning

We worked together with the Land-Use based Integrated Sustainability Assessment (LUISA) team at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) on the development of the first version of the Urban Data Platform. The entire platform was developed using open source software. We used a map tile system based on several open source libraries from Mapbox to display maps quickly and interactively; and D3.js, a powerful JavaScript library, to render the time animated charts. The platform integrates the different components into Drupal, the European Commission’s corporate web content management system, to facilitate data management, editing and much more. The platform makes it easier to understand past trends and future scenarios for over 60 indicators organized in the following themes: Demography, Urban Development, Economic Development, Transport and Accessibility, Environment and Climate, Resource Efficiency and Social Issues.

We supported the use of the Aquasurvey tool in different projects, for example in Burkina Faso in collaboration with an international NGO, Young Water Solutions, and the ULB University of Brussels. Aquasurvey allowed us to run field data collection campaigns inexpensively and efficiently in complex environments, without the possibility of an internet connection.

For more information please visit AQUASURVEY site at: www.aquaknow.net/en/aquasurvey-software

Castilla la Mancha is a region in Spain that has been severely affected by wildfires. Large forest fires such as the one that took place in August 2017 in the municipality of Yeste (Albacete) are becoming more and more frequent in the Mediterranean and leading to more catastrophic outcomes. Understanding how the fire growth and spread is crucial for preventing and suppressing wildfires while providing critical and accurate information to the pertinent actors. This is why we developed this storytelling tool for the forest fire in Yeste. This tool combines the accuracy and updated data from the Copernicus Earth Observation(EO) Programme with wind speed data to analyze how the fire spread over time.

For more information please visit the tool at: http://projects.randbee.com/yeste_storytelling/