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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<br>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition online course and resources from GODAN Action might be useful to some of you. The course might be useful for policy makers and scientists working in
the area of agriculture, nutrition, weather and climate, and land data. <br>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It consists of five units as follows including 18 lessons. </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Unit 1: Open Data Principles</font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">More Details, lecture slides at
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit1" id="LPlnk142047" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit1</a></font><br>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Unit 2: Using Open Data</font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">More Details, lecture slides at<b> </b>
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit2" id="LPlnk897426" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit2</a></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Unit 3: Making Data Open</font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">More Details, lecture slides at
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit3" id="LPlnk401381" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit3</a> </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal; min-height:14px"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Unit 4: Sharing Open Data</font></b><br>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">More Details, lecture slides at
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit4" id="LPlnk662237" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit4</a></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Unit 5: Intellectual Property and Copyright</font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">More Details, lecture slides at<b> </b>
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit5" id="LPlnk850163" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit5</a></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This e-learning course and course materials is the result of a collaboration between GODAN Action partners, including the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (<a href="http://fao.org/" id="LPlnk416291" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">FAO</a>), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (<a href="http://www.gfar.net/" id="LPlnk293445" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">GFAR</a>),
Wageningen Environmental Research, AgroKnow, <a href="http://aiddata.org/" id="LPlnk897869" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">AidData</a>, the Institute of Development Studies (<a href="http://www.ids.ac.uk/" id="LPlnk7206" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">IDS</a>),
the <a href="https://landportal.info/" id="LPlnk728600" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">Land Portal</a>, the Open Data Institute (<a href="http://www.opendata.institute/" id="LPlnk947296" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">ODI</a>)
and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (<a href="http://www.cta.int/en/" id="LPlnk748901" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">CTA</a>). I want to thank all GODAN colleagues who worked to develop these resources and make
it available for everyone.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For your geodata visualisation research and education needs, there is lot of work done by GeoForAll colleagues that might be useful . One
example is the <b>FOSS4G GeoAcademy Curriculum</b> <b>lectures and labs</b> . These are maintained and made available for download from the Spatial {Query} Lab on behalf of the
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GeoAcademy</a>. The lectures focus on a vendor-agnostic set of theories and principles. </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">These lectures and labs are freely available for you to use and are released under the
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license</a>. The lectures and labs are aligned to the
<a href="http://www.careeronestop.org/COMPETENCYMODEL/competency-models/geospatial-technology.aspx" id="LPlnk948012" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
Geospatial Technology Competency Model</a> and all labs focus on the use of Free and Open Source GIS Software (FOSS4G). All of the labs are also available on
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GitHub</a>.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The following courses are available</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/gst-101-introduction-to-geospatial-technology/" id="LPlnk763786" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><b>GST
101 – Introduction to Geospatial Technology (QGIS)</b></a></span><b> </b></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-102-spatial-analysis/" id="LPlnk269114" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><b>GST
102 – Spatial Analysis (QGIS)</b></a></span><b> </b></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-103-data-acquisition-and-management/" id="LPlnk757222" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><b>GST
103 – Data Acquisition and Management (QGIS)</b></a></span> </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-104-cartographic-design/" id="LPlnk517734" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><b><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">GST
104 – Cartographic Design (QGIS and Inkscape) </font></b></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-105-introduction-to-remote-sensing/" id="LPlnk322320" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><b>GST
105 – Introduction to Remote Sensing (QGIS and GRASS)</b></a></span><b> </b></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">All details and courses at
<a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/" id="LPlnk672569" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/</a></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You can download the software and resources from
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http://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/</a></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I want to thank all colleagues who worked to develop these educational resources and make it available for everyone.</span><br>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-stretch:normal; line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best wishes,</font></p>
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