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The Urban Services Monitoring System (UrSMS) in Surat, Gujarat has been selected as a "Project to Watch" in the Big Data Climate Challenge competition at the United Nations.

CGIAR Climate's insight:

The competition is part of the run-up to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Climate Summit to be held on September 23. The two winners of the competition, announced last Wednesday, were a forest monitoring system, Global Forest Watch, from the World Resources Institute and an agriculture decision-making tool for Colombian rice farmers from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Besides UrSMS, six other programs were selected as projects to watch.