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In this episode Ed speaks with Ferdinando Villa, Ikerbasque Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), and lead investigator on the ARIES (AI for Environment & Sustainability) project. The impulse for our conversation was the recent announcement by the UN of a collaboration with BC3 to use ARIES to support countries as they apply the new international standard for natural capital accounting, the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Ecosystem Accounting. Ferdinando explains what exactly ARIES is, but then our conversation ranges more deeply, reflecting on building models and systems for environmental understanding in a world of where data sets are continually evolving. We then turn to the role that members of the geospatial community can play in encouraging a sustainable future.

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One of our regular, shorter episodes in which we catch up on our projects and discuss the geonews.

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Ed is rejoined by Alexis Battle, CEO and founder of AVUXI, who we last heard from in episode 8 of the podcast which was recorded in February 2020, right before the pandemic started. Alexis shares the details of what life was like inside a travel tech start-up during Covid: how AVUXI lost 90+% of their revenue, shrank the team, fought to survive, pivoted their product offering to also serve the real estate industry, and how they look towards the future.

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Steven speaks with Arnalie Vicario, Online Community Engagement Lead at HOT. After several years of volunteering in the OpenStreetMap Philippines community, Arnalie is the first person to hold the role as Online Community Engagement Lead at HOT. She and Steven discuss the specific problems HOT is trying to address with the role, and reflect on the many challenges of making an inclusive, global community within OpenStreetMap and the wider open mapping community. The discussion move on to paid mapping, ensuring that the HOT community contributes responsibly to OSM, and encouraging sustainable, local mapping communities.

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This episode's conversation focuses on the challenge of marketing in the geospatial industry. Steve draws upon the expertise of long-time friend Alistair Maclenen, CEO and founder of geo marketing consultancy Quarry One Eleven. Alistair and Steven reflect on common geospatial B2B marketing mistakes, but also successes. Alistair cites What3Words as an example of geospatial marketing success. The discussion moves on to marketing/positioning advice for geo start-ups, and book recommendations for further reading. Finally, Alistair muses about the need for experimentation in business models in the Earth Observation industry, including free distribution of data.

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