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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">On behalf of "Geo for All" , we are happy to inform the renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) by Professor<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19px; "> Georg
Gartner (President ICA) and Jeff McKenna ( President OSGeo) on 16 July 2015 at FOSS4G Europe, in Como Italy. Details at </span></font><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA</a> </div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">This builds upon the ICA-OSGeo MoU of Sep 2011 and reflects our expansion plans for the future. We thank the ICA Executive and the OSGeo Board for supporting the MoU and Helena Mitasova for her efforts to get this
MoU updated and renewed. We also thank Arnulf Christl (former OSGeo President) who took the initiative of ICA-OSGeo collaborations many years back. This is an excellent example of the power of bringing together communities on a shared mission - </font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">"Making
geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all". </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">This MoU renewal will be formally announced by </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19px; ">Georg Gartner
(President ICA) [1] at the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> 27th </span><em style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">International Cartographic Conference</em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">
in </span><em style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Rio</em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> de Janeiro, Brazil next week and by </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19px; ">Jeff
McKenna ( President OSGeo) at FOSS4G 2015 in Seoul. This will </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19px; ">further develop the GeoForAll initiative, through expanding partnerships.
We</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> welcome Governments, Industry, SME’s , NGOs etc who support Geo4All’s education mission and criteria [2] to join us as “Partners” and be part of a global network of Open Geospatial
Science Research and Education ‘Labs’ and ‘Partners’ to expand more collaborations for the future [3] . We will work to bring together all key players (Government organisations, Industry, SMEs, NGOs) on the common mission of education and opportunities for
all.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">We started from nothing and it is 100 percent the dedication and efforts of all our colleagues globally which helped us .We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">their</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> help
and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative. </span></div>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We look forward to working and building collaborations with all interested on this education mission. Access to quality education and opportunities is key for getting rid of extreme poverty and enable broadly shared
prosperity for all.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Best wishes,</font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Suchith</font><br>
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<div style="font-family: Noteworthy-Light; font-size: 15px; ">[1] <a href="http://icaci.org/presidents-blog-ica-and-osgeo-renew-their-memorandum-of-understanding/" target="_blank">http://icaci.org/presidents-blog-ica-and-osgeo-renew-their-memorandum-of-understanding/</a> </div>
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<div style="font-family: Noteworthy-Light; font-size: 15px; ">[2] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Noteworthy-Light; font-size: 15px; ">[3] <a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/07/geo4all-welcomes-ideas-for-building-global-synergies-and-collaborations-for-access-to-quality-education-and-opportunities-for-all/" target="_blank">http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/07/geo4all-welcomes-ideas-for-building-global-synergies-and-collaborations-for-access-to-quality-education-and-opportunities-for-all/</a> </div>
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