<div dir="ltr">I couldn't resist publicly giving a shout-out to Ron Fortunato and AWorldBridge and their connection to these other organizations. In my view, they are leading the globe in this kind of cross organizational "commons-based peer production" effort and all GeoForAll labs should consider trying to mimic what they are doing. <div><br></div><div>Great work Ron and teams!</div><div><br></div><div>Charlie Schweik<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:29 AM, Suchith Anand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I would like to congratulate our GeoForAll lab colleagues -</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ron Fortunato’s and his students at AWorldBridge for their exceptional determination and efforts in contributing technical excellence and substantive achievements to assisting small-holder farmers in Africa in managing
the Fall Armyworm through the Fall Armyworm Monitoring & Early Warning System mobile app .</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">They built this for FAO that FAO then released as their app! Details at </span><a href="http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1106850/icode/" id="m_-4248522693325828682LPlnk221563" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://www.fao.org/news/<wbr>story/en/item/1106850/icode/</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Fall Army Worm is having a devastating impact on Africa. If you want to know more about the Fall Army Worm FAW, see this,</span></p>
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<span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://www.fao.org/food-chain-crisis/how-we-work/plant-protection/fallarmyworm/en/" id="m_-4248522693325828682LPlnk849037" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://www.fao.org/food-chain-<wbr>crisis/how-we-work/plant-<wbr>protection/fallarmyworm/en/</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ron’s AWorldBridge is one of the GeoForAll Labs (they have two labs - one</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">running projects for NASA and UN FAO in Middletown, NY, USA and a second one running delivering corresponding data including climate change studies for USGS, NOAA and NASA at Barrow, Alaska, USA. Everything they produce
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please see</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">FAO thank you certificate</span></p>
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<span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/fao/WorldBridgeCertificate.pdf" id="m_-4248522693325828682LPlnk82424" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://worldwind.arc.nasa.<wbr>gov/fao/<wbr>WorldBridgeCertificate.pdf</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks to Patrick for sharing this excellent news.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">A World Bridge is an international award-winning program for learning 21st Century Skills, using advanced teaching methods that incorporate real- world projects involving industry and government partners. A World Bridge continually
advances educational models for international leadership, economic development, and educational research. These dynamic projects involve the design and implementation of Real-world, Real-time Project- Based Learning into the curriculum. Students develop</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">professional
skills while working on locally-oriented projects that have relevance to the larger global community, such as urban management and sustainable resources. Details at
</span><a href="http://aworldbridge.com" id="m_-4248522693325828682LPlnk236837" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://aworldbridge.com</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am particularly impressed by their work with students through NASA Europa Challenge. Alaska’s A World Bridge program in Kodiak won back-to-back NASA Europa - International Grand Challenges the past two years, competing against
the world’s “Best and the Brightest” to generate solutions to societal issues that will benefit both the local and world communities.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The students are also working on the
NASA OpenCitySmart global initiative, which challenges “the world’s best and brightest” to find solutions for creating sustainable communities. They are looking for renewable energy solutions and the development of shared energy grids suitable for Arctic conditions.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please see the amazing work that the students are doing that was summarised in our June 2017 Newsletter at
</span><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/Newsletter-Vol-3_6.pdf" id="m_-4248522693325828682LPlnk151809" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://www.osgeo.org/wp-<wbr>content/uploads/Newsletter-<wbr>Vol-3_6.pdf</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">We are very grateful to the contributions of these amazing students to GeoForAll. It is important that we can share these amazing ideas with all so that it keeps building more synergies. We are a global community, and it is
this global perspective which gives us strength. It is important that we highlight and share ideas from colleagues in different parts of our home planet.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p>
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