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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Please accept the nomination of Victoria Rautenbach as the new cochair of GeoForAll. Details below. I thank the Board for the strong support for GeoForAll work and activities over the years and I request the Board to
continue provide strong support to Victoria , Helena for leading GeoForAll for the future. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Best wishes,</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> GeoForAll-ab <geoforall-ab-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 05 December 2018 13:14<br>
<b>To:</b> GeoForAll; geoforall-ab@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [geoforall-ab] Nominating Victoria Rautenbach as new cochair of GeoForAll</font>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am very happy to get the opportunity to nominate Victoria Rautenbach as the new co-chair of GeoForAll [1].</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Victoria</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Victoria is an enthusiastic contributor to open source , open data , open education</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">at University of Pretoria. She engages students in open data events and has arranged a number of events to introduce geoinformatics to school students. She is a member of the ICA-OSGeo lab at the University of Pretoria
since its inception in 2012. She is very passionate about the use of open source in education and also the increased use of open source in developing countries.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Details at</span></p>
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<a href="https://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/11/geoambassador-of-the-month-victoria-rautenbach/" id="LPlnk907332" class="x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/11/geoambassador-of-the-month-victoria-rautenbach/</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am very confident that</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Victoria will take GeoForAll to further achievements and opportunities. From very humble start GeoForAll expanded rapidly</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">thanks to the tireless work of our amazing colleagues worldwide. We have been very successful in expanding GeoForAll ideas at university level but now we need to focus also on Spatial Education for School level esp. for
economically backward communities globally . Victoria’s</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">work for school level students is very inspiring. </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I will now be emailing the OSGeo Board to kindly accept Victoria Rautenbach as the new co-chair for GeoForAll.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am very grateful for the opportunity to co-chair the GeoForAll initiative till now and get the opportunity to work with amazing colleagues globally over the last few years. It is thanks to the amazing work by all our colleagues
that we build great momentum for Open Principles in GeoEducation. I thank you all for your support, help and kindness. I will keep continuing my work as a volunteer for GeoForAll , OSGeo and all Open Education initiatives.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes,</span></p>
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