Developing Challenge-based Services

20 years of 52°North! What a brilliant opportunity to reflect a little. Time to look back in time? Nah, Albert Remke, co-founder of 52°North, already did this successfully in his blog post 52°North – 20 Years of Exploring Horizons. So, shall we take a look ahead instead? Honestly, with the constant changes brought on by AI, predicting the next year is anyone’s guess. How about reflecting a bit on what we do right now?

At 52°North, we design and develop open-source software and infrastructure solutions with a geospatial background. Clear enough? No? Yeah, we get it, it sounds pretty abstract and generic. So how can we describe our services more specifically and showcase the ambitions we share with our partners from research and beyond? In other words:

What are the key challenges 52°North aims to address,

and how do we contribute to them?

Over the next few weeks, we will publish a little blog post series to answer this question. Each post will examine a specific challenge while keeping a close eye on the relevant stakeholders addressed. Instead of a vague description of our services, we will demonstrate our recent contributions. These contributions, in turn, are not just simple presentations, but readily applicable outputs. Feel free to use them directly or as a discussion basis for a future cooperation with us. We will cover topics and technologies around research infrastructures, Geo-AI-enhanced services, and co-design – all with an eye on Open Science! The central idea of this blog post series is to

Present recent successes to identify opportunities for future collaboration.

No worries, the idea is not to start an advertisement campaign and re-sell our products. Rather, our goal is to pave the way for new ideas and drive innovation – in other words: Explore new horizons!

So, stay tuned and mark your calendar, Wednesday is blog post day!