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<b>Enviado:</b> martes, 16 de junio de 2020 16:01<br>
<b>Para:</b> Suchith Anand<br>
<b>Cc:</b> osgeolist; Yariwo; geoforall@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ICIMOD’s initiative on Empowering women in geospatial information technology</font>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 2:42 PM Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin:0px; font:12px "Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (</span><a href="https://www.icimod.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">ICIMOD</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">)
has been organizing the "Empowering women in geospatial information technology" training under its SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (</span><a href="http://servir.icimod.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">SERVIR-HKH</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">)
Initiative for the past two years. The training course, extended exclusively to young women from Nepal, provides them with theoretical as well as practical knowledge in the use of EO data and GIT using real-world examples from the HKH region. In its third
iteration and in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this intensive four-day course is being offered online to eligible women in Nepal. The training covers a wide range of topics, including principles of geographic information science (GIS), basic concepts
of remote sensing (RS), image calculation and spectral indices, and mapping using open source tools to solve emerging environmental problems. Details at
</span><a href="https://servir.icimod.org/events/empowering-women-in-geospatial-information-technology" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://servir.icimod.org/events/empowering-women-in-geospatial-information-technology</span></a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font:12px "Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">It is great to see that ICIMOD are using Free and Open GIS in their training programs. </span><span style="font-style:normal; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Details
on their recent training event for Virtually empowering women in Nepal with geospatial skills during the COVID-19 lockdown at</span><span style="font-style:normal; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://servir.icimod.org/news/virtually-empowering-women-in-nepal-with-geospatial-skills-during-the-COVID-19-lockdown" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px; font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://servir.icimod.org/news/virtually-empowering-women-in-nepal-with-geospatial-skills-during-the-COVID-19-lockdown</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">GeoForAll community would like to send our congratulations to ICIMOD for organising this important initiative . This is an excellent example of</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Bridging
the Geospatial Digital Divide</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">and providing
geo digital economy opportunities for all [1],[2],[3],[4].</span><br>
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<span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">On behalf of GeoForAll, I would also like to thank</span><span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Women
in GIS, Kenya [5] for their contributions to GeoForAll</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b style="font-weight:normal">.
</b></span><span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Details at
</span><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/geo-for-all-labs/women-in-gis-kenya/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.osgeo.org/geo-for-all-labs/women-in-gis-kenya/</span></a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font:12px "Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please keep sharing GeoForAll ideas and educational resources so that more faculty and students have
access to the resources</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px; font:12px "Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(228,175,10)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font:12px "Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">GeoForAll community are grateful to everyone working to make geoeducation and digital economy opportunities
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