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Revisiting the Ethics of Project Selection
A major part of how Azavea pursues its mission is tied to how we select our projects. As our work on Earth observation imagery has grown, we felt it was time to develop a guideline around a new industry: energy.
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Revisiting the Ethics of Project Selection
A major part of how Azavea pursues its mission is tied to how we select our projects. As our work on Earth observation imagery has grown, we felt it was time to develop a guideline around a new industry: energy.
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Join the OpenCities AI Challenge and Detect Building Footprints from Aerial Imagery
We partnered with Driven Data and the World Bank to develop the Open Cities AI Challenge. This challenge uses machine learning to extract building footprints in unmapped areas to promote disaster resilience.
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5 Ways to Make Your Office Event More Inclusive
Our workforce is more diverse than ever. Most offices are made up of folks from different cultures, remote workers, parents, colleagues with disabilities, and people with a range of dietary restrictions. This is our five-step guide to help companies consider all of these factors and plan more inclusive office events.
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10 Years into Our Charitable Contributions Program
Ten years ago we started a charitable contributions program. We developed a program that would increase our impact and expand employee ownership.
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Partnering with CloudFactory on Quality Training Data and Social Impact
Read about our journey to hiring an outsourced data labeling firm and how weโve found a partner in CloudFactory.
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Start-Stop-Continue: One Way That We Solicit Feedback
Employee feedback makes our office space and practices better. We implemented Start-Stop-Continue in 2011 to solicit robust and anonymous employee feedback, and have made significant changes and learned a lot since.
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5 Ways Company Leaders Can Support New Parents in the Workforce
Here are 5 ways companies can make the transition back to work smoother for working parents.
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Developing Countries, Capacity Building, and SDGs
Utilizing earth imagery to achieve all 17 UN SDGs by 2030 will take considerate effort. In order to do this effectively, we must include training and capacity building in our solutions.
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Introducing TileJSON.io, A Fast and Easy Way to View and Share Raster Tiles
TileJSON.io is an open source project by Azavea. It is an easy way to view and share raster tile sets using slippy map endpoints.
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How We Select Projects
As a mission-based organization, how we select the projects we pursue is an ongoing conversation at Azavea. We share our thought process here.
