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<br class=""><div><div class="">On 27 Aug 2017, at 09:11, Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" class="">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">+1 <br class=""><br class="">Mark has also contributed to the success of FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham.<br class=""><br class="">Best wishes,<br class=""><br class="">Suchith<br class="">________________________________________<br class="">From: Discuss <<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" class="">discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>> on behalf of Andy Anderson <<a href="mailto:aanderson@amherst.edu" class="">aanderson@amherst.edu</a>><br class="">Sent: 26 August 2017 10:13 PM<br class="">To: osgeolist<br class="">Cc: Cro; Iliffe Mark<br class="">Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Mark Iliffe as OSGeo Charter Member<br class=""><br class="">I second the nomination.<br class=""><br class="">— Andy<br class=""><br class="">On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Polimi <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a><<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" class="">mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I want to nominate Mark Iliffe as charter member of OSGeo.<br class=""><br class="">Mark has a lot of experience both as researcher and as a consultant of important organizations, like World Bank.<br class="">His main activities have been in coordinating mapping in developing countries examining the emergent phenomenon of community mapping and volunteered.<br class=""><br 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) countries.<br class=""><br class="">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=""><br 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.<br class=""><br class="">OSGEO will greatly benefit of the presence of Mark in our community.<br class="">Thanks and best regards,<br class="">Maria<br class=""><br class="">Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:<br class=""><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies" class="">http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------<br class="">Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli<br class="">Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing<br class="">Politecnico di Milano<br class=""><br class="">ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board<br class=""><br class="">UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)<br class=""><br class="">Sol Katz Award 2015<br class=""><br class="">P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)<br class="">Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867, maria.brovelli@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Discuss mailing list<br class="">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee<br class="">and may contain confidential information. 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