THE EYE ON EARTH (EOE) NETWORK has garnered a great deal of praise for providing European environmental data openly and transparently, including widespread kudos for a new platform that was launched at the Rio+20 meeting this year. EOE started out as a joint project of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft, and Esri recently joined the effort. Special correspondent Matteo Luccio spoke with Shoshanna Budzianowski, Partner Group Program Manager, Business Platform Group, Microsoft Corporation, who heads up the EOE project, about the ongoing development, the evolution to a cloud-based platform running on Microsoft’s Azure platform, and the addition of Esri’s ArcGIS Online.