The Digital Earth: Understanding our Planet in the 21st Century. Al Gore’s speech at the California Science Center, Los Angeles, California, on January 31, 1998 is now over 12 years old but is still inspirational. Read the full speech again and be inspired Al Gore Digital Earth Speech
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Al Gore
Monday, August 16th, 2010Digital Earth Conference
Friday, June 18th, 2010Richard Simpson spoke last week at the 3rd ISDE Digital Earth Summit (June12-14, 2010) in Nessebar, Bulgaria. The conference theme was “DIGITAL EARTH IN THE SERVICE OF SOCIETY: SHARING INFORMATION, BUILDING KNOWLEDGE.” Richard reports that the conference was very stimulating and he will have lots to report on his return. More about the conference
Digital Earth Medal
Thursday, September 10th, 2009On 10th September, Nextspace’s Richard Simpson was honoured (in absence) with a special medal presented by Professor Lu Yongxiang, Chair of the International Society for the Digital Earth (ISDE) in Beijing, China. The ISDE medal recognises significant contribution to Digital Earth over the past 5 years including the inaugural Digital Earth Summit.
The Digital Earth vision incorporates a digitally-formatted Earth, a functionally interfacing metaphor, whereby a corresponding virtual body of knowledge of the real Earth and its digital representation for understanding the Earth and relevant phenomena is accessible to all citizens of the planet via the internet.
