Human activities at sea such as offshore wind farming, shipping and fishing, easily get into each other's way. And they have a long-term impact on the marine environment. Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) Challenge has been designed to help decision-makers, stakeholders and students understand and manage the maritime (blue) economy and marine environment.
In the interactive simulation, country planners and stakeholders see the entire sea region and review many different data layers to make an assessment of the current status. They develop plans for future uses of sea space, over a period of several decades. The consequences of decisions for energy, shipping and the marine environment are simulated and visualized in indicators and heat maps.
MSP Challenge integrates the best available geo, maritime and marine data with simulation models for ecology, shipping and energy production. Using advanced game technology and game thinking, MSP Challenge is designed to engage and immerse users, making it a perfect environment for stakeholder engagement, and planning through co-design, learning and education.
We see a need to innovate the way we talk, discuss, learn, make plans and make decisions about our seas and oceans. We have to look at the sea from a broader and longer-term perspective. Learning to go beyond self- and short-term interests. We think that planning and decision-making about the maritime economy and marine ecosystems can become more intelligent, interactive and immersive.
By making use of emerging digital technologies, such as games and virtual reality, we can connect geo, maritime and marine data, with eco-modelling and maritime simulations. The MSP Challenge is a community-based, open source and non-profit initiative, since 2011. Thousands of people around the world have experienced the MSP Challenge simulation platform and board games.
The MSP Challenge Simulation Platform, all its Editions (including but not limited to the North Sea Edition, Baltic Sea Edition, Clyde Marine Region Edition) and their source codes are provided under the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPL-3.0-only) license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html.
In short, this means that you may freely copy, distribute and modify the software as long as you track changes and their dates in source files. Any modifications to the software, including the source code, must also be made available under this GPL-3.0-only license along with build and install instructions if relevant. Further conditions apply, see the license text.
The required additional software applications have their own copyright holders and licenses that allowed Breda University of Applied Sciences to use and distribute them in an unaltered state as part of the platform and its editions. A full overview of these applications is available on this MSP Challenge Community wiki.
All original geographical information systems (GIS) data also have their own copyright holders and licenses that allowed Breda University of Applied Sciences to use them to create derivative works. We do not distribute the originals; a full overview of these sources is available on this MSP Challenge Community wiki.
R&D Code of Conduct
As the platform's custodian, Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) has a strong research & development interest. We therefore uphold a simple R&D Code of Conduct in addition to GPLv3 license:
We request platform users to inform BUas about their use. Please get in touch through http://www.mspchallenge.info.
We request platform users to consider further developing the platform together with us.
We request platform users to publish together with us about the platform’s design, development and application in areas as varied as marine sciences, marine simulation, fishing and ecology, educational science, design and game sciences, and evaluation.
In their internal or external communications, we strongly request platform users to acknowledge not only copyright holders (as stipulated by GPLv3), but also those people who took important initiatives, paid hefty bills, and simply put their time, heart and soul into this platform since the early days. To do this, users can refer to or copy over the complete overview of copyright holders and those who deserve credit that is available on this MSP Challenge Community wiki.
Downloading, installing and/or using parts or the whole of the MSP Challenge Simulation Platform requires a registered account. This can be obtained freely at the MSP Challenge Authoriser: https://auth2.mspchallenge.info.
You will be asked to provide the following personal information:
First and last name
E-mail address
IP address
This personal information is stored in the MSP Challenge Authoriser database hosted on a server located in the Netherlands and will be only accessible by you and by the different applications that make up the platform. Storing this personal information serves two purposes:
The MSP Challenge Simulation Platform is the result of research and development carried out at and by Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), the Netherlands, in collaboration with its partners and funders. BUas provides the platform for free and open source, but wants to know who is using it and how, so that it may continue to improve the platform, publish about its impact, and stay in touch with end users about all of this.
BUas does not distribute the obtained and adjusted geodata that is required to actually use this platform, because of the shared copyright involved. Through this account procedure BUas can refrain from redistributing this geodata, but still provide access to it for users when they need it. As a result BUas logs any provision of geodata with the user’s account when a user requires it.
To be clear, we are thus *not* using your personal information for any other purpose than listed above, and we are *not* providing your personal information to any other parties unless obliged by law.
Should you choose to create an account, you will always have the ability to update your personal information by logging in on the MSP Challenge Authoriser and going to the ‘Edit Account Info’ page.
After one year of inactivity we will delete your account and thus your personal information, with two weeks’ notice by e-mail.
You will of course also have the right to freely delete your account yourself at any time, thereby deleting your personal information from the database. Again, you will be able to do this yourself by logging in on the MSP Challenge Authoriser and selecting the option ‘Delete Account’. Of course you will then no longer be able to use the platform.
We note that your past platform use data will never be deleted, even if your account has been deleted (by you or by inactivity). However, since we won’t have your account and personal information anymore, this data will have become anonymised. So from that point on, no-one will be able to determine from this platform use data that it concerned you.
Should you have complaints or questions about privacy, you can contact Breda University of Applied Sciences through e-mail at fg@buas.nl.
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