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<p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Dear All</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">below a short report about the main outcomes of the meeting I attended on behalf of OSGeo.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Best regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Maria</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Meeting at United Nations Global Service Centre - Brindisi, Italy, 27-28 April 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The meeting was organized in two days and included
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<li><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">the combined demonstration and field test of the Modular Command Centre and mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">the presentation (and discussion) of the UN Open GIS project to UN, Member States, other international organisations and academia [1]<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Main elements of interest by OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll:<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Spiral 1 (WG1): the UN Open GIS Initiative GeoPortal. The Platform is based on Geoshape-Exchange, developed by Boundless and supported by
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">US DoD.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Spiral 2 (WG2): capacity building for UN staff members on open source geospatial technologies. The initiative is supported by volunteer activity of OSGeo and GeoForAll members. QGIS (concluded) and PostGIS (in progress)
have been taught by using as educational platform that of Politecnico di Milano.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Spiral 3 (WG3): geospatial analysis. More than
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">140 new geospatial functions for Web and Desktop available at [2]. Those pieces of software were made avaialable by
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> (South Korea). Educational material will be provided soon. The original material is available in Korean. It will be translated in English but some help in cleaning it by English native speakers is more than
welcome.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Spiral 4 (WG4): tools for data collection. The
</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based Rapid Geospatial Solution is part of the WG activities and the software will be available soon. The development is part of the activity of
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">OpenGDS (South Korea). Some South Korean companies are contributing to the development; among them Gaia3D, Inc.
</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I discussed with Kyoung-Soo Eom and Ki-Joune Li (the two chairs of UN Open GIS Initiative) the document “</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi">Resourcing
Open Source Geospatial Training for the United Nations”</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> [3]. The theme of sustainability is very relevant to UN Open GIS initiative (and more in general to UN). We agreed to organize a first exploratory Skype or hangout
meeting, together with Cameron Shorter (who promoted this initiative) to discuss the document before presenting it to the next UN Open GIS Initiative VTC.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">I recall you that the UN Open GIS Initiative VTC meeting is scheduled the second Wednesday of every month at 1 pm UTC. People interested can attend. Just let me know in such a way that I communicate
your interest to the chairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">[1] <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing" id="LPlnk949056" previewremoved="true">
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dBcNKACjRlcDZTa0JsNUlab0U/view?usp=sharing</a>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">[2] <a href="https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig" id="LPlnk510200" previewremoved="true">
https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig</a> <o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">[3] <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea" id="LPlnk348644" previewremoved="true">
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Di-WxImfPq5oF2jeBblxNjY0JYJoXegLc5jaTPjufM/edit#heading=h.g1mf7fn4rfea</a>
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Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:<br>
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<span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli</b></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span><span style="font-size:12pt">ISPRS WG IV/4"</span><span style="font-size:12pt">Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)</span><span style="font-size:12pt">"</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><a href="http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPNoLP">http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html</a>, </span>Board
of Directors of OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory <font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif">Board</font>; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt">UN-GGIM Italy, <span>UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, <span>UN OpenGIS Initiative (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)</span></span></p>
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