{"id":359,"date":"2019-09-05T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2019-12-02T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:40:48","slug":"california-wildfires-challenge-by-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/california-wildfires-challenge-by-ibm\/","title":{"rendered":"California Wildfires Challenge by IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A wildfire is an unplanned fire and is usually started by (unintentionally) humans! These fires aided by wind, dry forest\/underbrush burn uncontrolled and consume everything in their paths burning thousands of acres. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is estimated, in US on an average every year, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/natural-disasters\/wildfires\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 million acres are burnt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">! There are benefits to wildfires, when they occur naturally and limited way&#8230;but not when uncontrolled. They occur in most of the 50 states but are common in western states. In California, wildfire season of 2018 is the deadliest and most destructive with nearly 8500 files that destroyed 1.9 million acres. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are several aspects to this problem that tech could help alleviate it. They include, but not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prepare in advance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Survive during fire<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rescue and safety <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IBM in collaboration with \u201842 Silicon Valley\u2019 has launched a challenge to elicit wildfire solutions, with the focus on community health and well-being. This is part of their 4 year initiative called IBM Code and Response. This <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/call-for-code-california-wildfires-tickets-59695700447\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California Wildfire challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> begins with a hackathon (on May 4th, 2019). Ideas\/projects created during the hackathon could be to be continued to develop\/build further and are due for submission, on July 29th, for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/callforcode.org\/challenge\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good luck to all the Pieneers!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Image Credit: Thanks to skeeze via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pixabay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A wildfire is an unplanned fire and is usually started by (unintentionally) humans! These fires aided by wind, dry forest\/underbrush burn uncontrolled and consume everything in their paths burning thousands of acres. 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