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Challenge Green Data for Health

The Challenge Green Data for Health, launched by the Ecolab of the French Commissariat Général au Développement Durable, has produced new tools to better mobilize environmental data for health-environment applications.

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The Green Data for Health Challenge, led by the Ecolab of the General Commission for Sustainable Development in 2023, has enabled the production of new tools to better mobilize environmental data in the service of environmental health. The outputs from the Challenge are accessible at the following link: https://gitlab.com/data-challenge-gd4h/Video link

The initiative

The tools developed as part of the initiative:

  • Originated with health-environment actors, following a survey of a broad ecosystem of players.
  • Have been supported and framed by health-environment actors (including public expertise entities, research organizations, local actors).
  • Were produced by the involvement of numerous volunteer digital experts over a 2-month period.

A 5-step Challenge

Challenges from actors in the health-environment sector.
A survey of the needs for tools from a wide ecosystem of players, followed by a collegial evaluation and selection of challenges (by setting up a GD4H Challenge steering committee).

Challenges developed and refined by actors in the health and environment sector.
Framing workshops involving experts from a wide range of fields (business needs, data mobilization, technical feasibility, pitch) helped refine the specifications for each challenge.

Challenges mobilizing the right skills.
By recruiting the right profiles for the skills identified, we were able to consolidate teams around each challenge.

Tools implemented around a consolidated community of players.
Production of the tools took 2 months and was structured around 4 sprints (each lasting 2 weeks) and masterclasses.

Shared tools freely available online, designed to be transferable to other use cases.
Finalization of projects to guarantee the quality of the tools, and online publication of outputs (tools, data and data papers), enabling them to be reused.
Calendrier challenge

The 15 challenges

The challenges led to the design of 15 tools, anchored in a variety of themes (soil, water, biodiversity, food, health-friendly urban planning and development) and on different stages of the data lifecycle (data extraction, format conversion, diagnostics and quality enhancement, joining and cross-referencing, visualization tools).

At the closing event, a jury of experts selected the 3 podium prizes:

1° prize: HistorIRIS, by Santé Publique France.
2° prize: Caliviz, by Anses.
3° prize: C3PO, by Office Français de la Biodiversité.

A prize entitled 'Strong potential for innovation through data' highlighted the promising nature of:

BAMBIN, by le Cerema & Bordeaux Métropole.
Carto’Ambroisies, by Fredon France.

The people's choice award went to the BAMBIN challenge, run by Cerema.

Beta version - This platform is in continuous improvement!

In a logic of continuous improvement, the community of environmental data producers and environmental health researchers are invited to propose improvements on the online platform and the catalog. You can participate in this process by clicking below to join the working groups and become a beta tester.

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