How Automated Tweets Can Warn about Fires in the Amazon

  • Wednesday, Oct 14 – 3:15 PM – 3:35 PM ET (19:15 – 19:35 UTC)
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Go Under the Hood and learn more about a map and bot project using NASA data and Twitter alerts to provide contextualized, timely and geolocated information about fires in the Brazilian Amazon, a region where news deserts predominate, government action is irresponsible and climate change mitigation is in desperate need.

Speakers

Juliana Mori
Content director, InfoAmazonia
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Rodrigo Menegat
Freelance data journalist, Freelance
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