The New Model for Geo Grants
The Google.org Blog shares the 14 recipients of its Geo Challenge Grants. The grants run from $5000 to $50,000 and support local regional and nationwide efforts in education, health, energy and the environment. Some like the Green Belt Movement will be familiar to those in the geospatial community.
The apps created from the grants along with the data used will be open sourced for all to use.
Is this the new model for grants in this time of “Free”? Is giving software passe now that so much is free? Is the best use of resources to support the programming efforts and to make their impacts wider by turning it open source?
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/13 at 07:49 AM |
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