<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>+1<br><br>Kind regards,<br><div>Marc Vloemans</div><div><br></div></div><div><br>Op 26 aug. 2017 om 23:13 heeft Andy Anderson <<a href="mailto:aanderson@amherst.edu">aanderson@amherst.edu</a>> het volgende geschreven:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>

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<div class="">On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Polimi <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">I want to nominate Mark Iliffe as charter member of OSGeo. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Mark has a lot of experience both as researcher and as a consultant of important organizations, like World Bank.</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">His main activities have been in coordinating mapping in developing countries examining the emergent phenomenon of community mapping and volunteered. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Das Ramani Huria, one of the project which has been seeing him involved as a main actor, is considered as a best practice for developing (and probably could also be for developed)
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He is also invited delegate to the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN GGIM) as an expert on Volunteered Geographic Information and geography in emerging countries. <br class="">
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">He organised the 2013 FOSS4G Conference as a member of the local organising committee and is one of the two chairs of FOSS4G 2018 in Dar Es Salaam.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">OSGEO will greatly benefit of the presence of Mark in our community. </span></div>
<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Thanks and best regards, </span></div>
<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Maria </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli</b></div>
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Politecnico di Milano</span></div>
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