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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) greatly appreciates and welcomes the contributions of the global student community.
</span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">OSGeo Student Awards</span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> are given to acknowledge the excellent work of students.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are pleased to announce OSGeo student award for the
</span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">best student presentation at FOSS4G 2018</span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (250 USD) to
<b>Stephen Oloo</b> for his work on <b>“Mapping livestock keepers and their herds across Africa based on households’ survey”</b> . Stephen Oloo is a part time student at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, undertaking a masters degree in Geographic Information
System. He also works at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as a Spatial Data Analyst where he is involved in developing GIS and remote sensing products used for modelling livestock distribution, forage monitoring, rangelands analysis, and
mapping of livestock resources.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are pleased to announce OSGeo student award for the
</span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">best student poster presentation</span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">at FOSS4G 2018</span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (250 USD) to
<b>Samy Katumba</b> for his poster titled “<b>Spatial statistical analyses to assess the spatial extent and concentration of multidimensional poverty in Gauteng using the South African multidimensional poverty index”</b>.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Samy Katumba is a researcher at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO). He is also a PhD Geoinformatics student at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). Samy is currently working on how to use spatial statistical
analysis, spatial econometrics methods and machine learning algorithms for analysing and visualising socio-economic data and phenomena such as poverty, inequality, racial and other forms of diversity or segregation within urban spaces. Samy's interests and
areas of research include spatial statistics, spatial econometrics, Web GIS, mapping, geospatial data visualisation, spatial analysis, geospatial data mining, machine learning and online geo-information retrieval. He has a master of science degree with specialisation
in Geoinformatics from the University of Pretoria (South Africa).</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Congratulations to Stephen Oloo and Samy Katumba for winning the OSGeo Student Awards at FOSS4G 2018. We also thank all students who presented their</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">work at FOSS4G 2018. The jury members for the awards </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">were Rafael Moreno, Serena Coetzee, Victoria Rautenbach, Franz-Josef Behr, Marco Minghini, Maria Brovelli and Suchith Anand.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our thanks specifically to Maria Brovelli and Serena Coetzee for their work and efforts to makes these students awards possible.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Suchith</span></p>
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