[Geo4All] "Humanitarian Mapathons for Children": the Big Challenge

[Maria Brovelli]

Many thanks Suchith!
As told during the webinar, we want to organise a Big MiniMapathon next 
year more or less in the period of the Earth Day (it could be 20th April).
Everybody who is interested in this First  MiniMapathon Big Challenge, 
please contact me!
The idea is to have (at least) one champion for every country. Offer 
yourself for coordinating the activity in your country, please!

Best regards!
Maria


Il 14/05/2016 11:17, Suchith Anand ha scritto:
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> On behalf of Geo4All , i am pleased to share the slides and recordings 
> of the webinar on *"Humanitarian Mapathons for Children"* as part of 
> the *"Open Geospatial Science & Applications" webinar series*.
>
> *Presenters: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Marco Minghini, Aldo Torrebruno 
> (Politecnico di Milano), and Tyler Radford (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap 
> Team (HOT)*
>
> *Talk abstract:*
>
> This webinar provides an introduction on humanitarian mapathons for 
> children, which represent a remarkable educational experience as they 
> combine geography and awareness about our world, technology and 
> humanitarian aspects. Following the successful experiences of 
> Politecnico di Milano (Italy), the most important educational and 
> technical aspects of humanitarian mapathons with children will be 
> outlined. The purpose is to provide the GeoForAll community, and 
> specially the teachers involved (at all levels), with some practical 
> instructions on how to set up and run their own mapathons. The webinar 
> is organized in collaboration with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team 
> (HOT) under the umbrella of the United Nations Open Geospatial 
> (UNOGeo) initiative of which GeoForAll and the Open Source Geospatial 
> Foundation (OSGeo) are partners.
>
> The recordings and slides of the webinar is avialable at the Geo4All 
> webinars page at http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/
>
> The background of this webinar is at 
> https://hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_map_swaziland_for_malaria_elimination 
>
>
> Our thanks to *Prof. Maria Brovelli, Dr. Marco Minghini*  and all 
> Politecnico di Milano colleagues for thier excellent work and service 
> for the wider humanity. They have been leading all our humanitarian 
> mapathons (Nepal, Japan, Equador) [1], [2] and it is a great 
> opportunity to hear and learn from thier experiences. Also thanks to 
> all the school teachers in Como, Italy who helped organise this 
> mapathon for the students.*This also help teach the students the real 
> essence of education and humanity and “sharing knowledge and 
> expertise” to help each other in times of need.* There is an excellent 
> article on Humanitarian Mapathons by Marco Minghini for this month's 
> newsletter at http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/
>
> Thanks to Dr. Rafael Moreno and colleagues at University of Colorado 
> Denver [3] for organising the Geo4All webinar series. We are looking 
> forward to work with you all on this education mission and expand Open 
> Geospatial Science [4],[5],[6] .
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> Dr. Suchith Anand
> http://www.geoforall.org/
>
> *Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science *
>
>
> [1] 
> http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/humanitarian-mapathons-for-japan-and-ecuador/ 
>
> [2] 
> http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/04/mapping-response-contributions-for-nepal/ 
>
> [3] http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/
> [4] 
> http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
> [5] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
> [6] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
>
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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
Politecnico di Milano

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