[OSGeo-Announce] Invitation to Geo4All Webinar on 5th May 2016 on Humanitarian Mapathons for Children

[Jorge Sanz]

On behalf of Geo4All we would like to welcome you to the "Open
Geospatial Science & Applications" webinar series. Thanks to Dr.
Rafael Moreno and colleagues at University of Colorado Denver for
organising the Geo4All webinar series. If you are interested to do a
webinar for the Geo4All webinar series please contact Rafael (email-
rafael.moreno at ucdenver.edu ) and he will be happy to discuss ideas.

Webinar details below:

* Date and Time : May 5, 2016 (Thursday) at 1:00 PM Greenwich Mean
Time (7:00 AM US/Canada Mountain Time)
* Topic : Humanitarian Mapathons for Children
* Presenters: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Marco Minghini, Aldo Torrebruno
(Politecnico di Milano), and Tyler Radford (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
Team (HOT)

Talk abstract:

This webinar will provide an introduction on humanitarian mapathons
for children, which represent a remarkable educational experience as
they combine geography and awareness about our world, technology and
humanitarian aspects. Following the successful experiences of
Politecnico di Milano (Italy), the most important educational and
technical aspects of humanitarian mapathons with children will be
outlined. The purpose is to provide the GeoForAll community, and
specially the teachers involved (at all levels), with some practical
instructions on how to set up and run their own mapathons. The webinar
is organized in collaboration with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
(HOT) under the umbrella of the United Nations Open Geospatial
(UNOGeo) initiative of which GeoForAll and OSGeo are partners.

See webinar description in the Geo4All webinars page:
http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/

Please join us here at https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/350696659

Recording and slides will be posted in the Geo4All webinars page after
presentation: http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/

For more details of the webinar series, contact University of Colorado
Denver FOSS4G Lab at http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/


The background of this webinar is at
https://hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_map_swaziland_for_malaria_elimination

Thanks to Maria Brovelli, Marco Minghini and all Politecnico di Milano
colleagues for thier excellent work. They have been leading all our
humanitarian mapathons (Nepal, Japan, Equador) [1], [2] and it will be
a great opportunity to hear and learn from thier experiences.

So please join this Geo4All webinar on 5th May 2016.


[1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/humanitarian-mapathons-for-japan-and-ecuador/
[2] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/04/mapping-response-contributions-for-nepal/