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--<br class="">Serena Coetzee<br class=""><br class="">Geography Building 3-5<br class="">Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa<br class="">email: <a href="mailto:serena.coetzee@up.ac.za" class="">serena.coetzee@up.ac.za</a> · Web: <a href="http://www.up.ac.za/cgis" class="">www.up.ac.za/cgis</a> · Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><br class=""></span></span>
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<br class=""><div><div class="">On 26 Aug 2017, at 23:13, Andy Anderson <<a href="mailto:aanderson@amherst.edu" class="">aanderson@amherst.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:36 PM, Polimi <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;" class="">I'm honored of nominating Msilikale Msilanga as OSGeo Charter Member.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;" class="">He is consulting the World Bank on Transportation and ICT by collecting in Tanzania geospatial information on transportation, education, and public facilities and by training the government
on Open Data. He has a huge experience in community based projects (using FOSS) for flooding resilience in informal settlements. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;" class="">He has been working with the local community since 2011 helping them to understand how to use the mapping equipment for collaborative projects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;" class="">After the experience in Tanzania, he also helped the creation of the first community mapping in Mozambique. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;" class="">Moreover, Msilikale is one of the two chairs of FOSS4G 2018 in Dar Er Salaam. I believe that his experience on collaborative mapping is fundamental for our OSGeo Community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;" class="">Many thanks and best regards,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;" class="">Maria </span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies" id="NoLP" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font class="">http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies</font></a></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""> </span></p>
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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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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing<br class="">
Politecnico di Milano</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" <a href="http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html" id="NoLP" class="">http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html</a>, Board
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""> </span></p>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Sol Katz Award 2015</b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""> </span></p>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867, <a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" id="NoLP" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a></span></div>
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