<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Jeff and all,<br><br></div>Our Open Data for Resilience team (<a href="https://www.gfdrr.org/opendri" target="_blank">https://www.gfdrr.org/opendri</a>) at the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) has been promoting open source, open data, OpenStreetMap with regards to resilience and disaster risk reduction applications in many countries through trainings, projects,etc.... Several members of the team are OSGeo charter member and advocate and technically, the World Bank is a UN specialized agency so happy to be part of the committee and to help this cooperation too.<br><br></div>Best,<br><br></div>Vivien<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Werner Leyh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wernerleyh@yahoo.com" target="_blank">wernerleyh@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Jeff, Hi Jeroen, Hi Venka, Hi all<br>
<br>
With regard to the work package “disaster managment”, covered by <a href="http://www.unisdr.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.unisdr.org/</a> ,<br>
the following “UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the implementation of the<br>
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030” could be important for us:<br>
<a href="http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/events/45270" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/events/45270</a><br>
<br>
The event will take place on 27-29 January 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
<br>
Of course, there are many other UN activities where FOSS could be very useful.<br>
Nevertheless, disaster management is an important point with links to main other areas.<br>
“Link Open Data” approaches with “crowd sourced data” will surely an important point.<br>
<br>
Submission of abstracts is still possible till 30 November 2015.<br>
Werner<br>
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On Sat, 10/31/15, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new UN committee - call for members<br>
To: "osgeo" <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
Date: Saturday, October 31, 2015, 12:18 PM<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Thanks Jeroen, Venka, and everyone<br>
that already signed up as members<br>
(wow, great). I'm waiting on the new mailing list to<br>
be created, then<br>
we can start planning there. Venka: I had spoken with<br>
Kyoung-Soo Eom<br>
yesterday and he is very happy to hear of the new committee,<br>
I will<br>
definitely add him to the new mailing list so we can all<br>
collaborate there.<br>
<br>
-jeff<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2015-10-31 7:50 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:<br>
> Hi Jeff,<br>
> Great initiative, I've just signed up to the<br>
committee.<br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Jeroen<br>
><br>
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>> Op 30 okt. 2015 om 20:58 heeft Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>><br>
het volgende geschreven:<br>
>><br>
</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> >> Hi everyone,<br>
>><br>
>> At the last OSGeo board meeting we agreed to form a<br>
new committee, focused on the UN/United Nations. I<br>
have drafted an initial wiki page for the committee, that<br>
gives some background. Please, if you are interested<br>
in helping promote Open Source geospatial at the UN with its<br>
members states, definitely add your name to the wiki<br>
page. We will likely organize the first committee<br>
meeting sometime in November. Thanks!<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee</a><br>
>><br>
>> -jeff<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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