<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">News item by Vicky Vergara</div><div class="gmail_attr">Published at <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-and-smart-geo-expo-signed-memorandum-of-understanding/">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-and-smart-geo-expo-signed-memorandum-of-understanding/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:12pt" id="m_-8736133872301255268gmail-docs-internal-guid-c51345aa-7fff-551c-ee8e-776845ebf4c4"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OSGeo and Smart Geo Expo signed Memorandum of Understanding </span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">KINTEX Exhibition Center, Goyang , South Korea 3rd of November</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), represented by Celia Virgina Vergara Castillo, vice-president of OSGeo and Smart Geo Expo, represented by Secretary General Mee-Jeong Kim, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a collaborative relationship between the Smart Geo Expo and OSGeo communities. The aim of this agreement is to cooperate and reach a mutual framework of activities for  open source geospatial technologies.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About Smart Geo Expo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Asia’s biggest geospatial information technology exchange expo, with exhibitions, conferences, and additional side programs that cover the newest technologies in 'spatial information', the key infrastructure of digital platform government, in addition to the trends in utilization of convergence-based technologies. Furthermore, Smart Geo Expo seeks to make substantial events by promoting active business matchmaking between industries and buyers both at home and abroad, thereby providing opportunities for experts from a wide variety of fields to freely exchange information.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Read more about Smart Geo:  </span><a href="http://www.smartgeoexpo.kr" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.smartgeoexpo.kr</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseli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