[OSGeo-Announce] Advisory Board of the "Geo for All" initiative

Anne Ghisla a.ghisla at gmail.com
Tue Dec 10 12:28:00 PST 2013


We are pleased to announce the Advisory Board of the "Geo for All"
initiative.

* Professor Georg Gartner (ICA President & co-chair)
* Jeff McKenna  (OSGeo President & co-chair)
* Professor Josef Strobl
* Professor Marguerite Madden
* Professor Mike Jackson
* Sven Schade
* Gavin Fleming
* Sergio Acosta y Lara
* Dr Chris Pettit
* Professor Venkatesh Raghavan
* Geoff Zeiss
* Jeroen Ticheler
* Phillip Davis
* Arnulf Christl
* Professor Maria Brovelli
* Dr Rafael Moreno


The ICA-OSGeo Lab network [0] is a joint initiative of the Open Source
Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) [1] and the International Cartographic
Association (ICA) [2]. The ICA and OSGeo Presidents will be the
co-chairs and permanent members of the Advisory Board. Others will have
3 year term starting date of the Advisory Board being constituted (1 Dec
2013). The Advisory Board has brought together excellent range of
expertise (academia, government, industry) and geographical
distribution (we have nearly all continents covered). Also it brought
together members from other key communities ISPRS, AGILE, INSPIRE,
UNIGIS etc. which will make sure is it a fully inclusive global
initiative. The Advisory Board will meet once every six months by
telemeeting and AB members will keep an eye on the developments and
provide strategic advice to the initiative through various forums.

While there has been tremendous growth in geospatial technology over
the last few decades, the number of universities offering courses in
geospatial science has not kept pace. Free and open geographic
information (GI) software helps make geospatial education available to
students from economically poor backgrounds worldwide (removing the
need for high cost proprietary GI software). Our key aim is to make it
possible for students in developing and poor countries to be also able
to get geospatial education. This initiative will bring more
opportunities for geospatial education worldwide. Over 50 Open Source
Geospatial Labs have already been established in universities around
the world as part of this initiative in just two year's time, and we
will be establishing over 100 research labs worldwide by September
2014.

We will have over 500 labs established worldwide in the next five years
making us the biggest geospatial education and research network in the
planet  and we now have a good team of experts to guide us for the
future.  Welcome to all members of the Advisory Board and we are
looking forward for their advice and ideas for expanding this education
initiative globally.

We thank all of you for your strong support for this education
initiative and it is very happy for us that our initiative has now
grown rapidly from very humble beginnings and is helping to widen the
benefits of geospatial education opportunities to thousands of students
worldwide.

[0] http://www.geoforall.org/
[1] http://osgeo.org
[2] http://icaci.org/
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