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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In October 2020 , I organised</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> a Think Tank on Data Ethics to bring together over 20 organisations (including
representatives from OSGeo) to explore ideas for building support for the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Locus Charter [1] - an international charter on the ethical use of location data. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Following this Data Ethics ThinkTank, it was agreed by all participants to keep continuing the GeoEthics discussions through the mailing list at OGC.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I thank Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for making Geoethics list as an open, public archive
</span><a href="http://lists.ogc.org/pipermail/geoethics/"><span style="color: rgb(220, 161, 13); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://lists.ogc.org/pipermail/geoethics/</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I would like to request OSGeo Board to sign Letter of Engagement with Locus Charter . I am attaching the letter for your kind consideration. I am ccing Nicole Oveisi from AGS who will
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Best wishes</span></p>
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://ethicalgeo.org/locus-charter/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://ethicalgeo.org/locus-charter/</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></p>
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