[Geo4All] Preliminary report on Education for the City We Need: Exploring how to integrate the New Urban Agenda in higher education curriculums

Franz-Josef Behr franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
Thu Feb 8 23:45:52 PST 2018


Dear Ruslan,


please share some key results with me and the list. I am especially 
interested in all kind of Geospatial contributions to the SDG.


Best regards - Franz-Josef


Am 08.02.2018 um 20:54 schrieb Ruslan Rainis:
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> Hi Suchith,
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> Thank you for sharing.
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> Presently, I'm attending the World Urban Forum 9 (WUF9).
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> "Geoinformation Science in Transforming Education and Research for 
> Sustainable Tomorrow and the Bottom Billions"
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> Ruslan
> Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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> *From:* GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of 
> Suchith Anand <suchith_anand at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 8, 2018 5:04:50 AM
> *To:* OSGeo Discussions; GeoForAll OsGeo
> *Subject:* [Geo4All] Preliminary report on Education for the City We 
> Need: Exploring how to integrate the New Urban Agenda in higher 
> education curriculums
>
> Dear colleagues,
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> In June 2017 ,  TU Delft organised Urban Thinkers’ Campus (UTC ) on 
> Higher Education for the New Urban Agenda. The aim of the meetings was 
> to explore how to integrate the UN-Habitat NEW URBAN AGENDA in higher 
> education curricula. [1]
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> For those interested there is a preliminary report available both at 
> the World Urban Campaign website 
> http://www.worldurbancampaign.org/education-city-we-need-exploring-how-integrate-new-urban-agenda-higher-education-curriculums 
>   and at UTC website https://utctudelft.org/executive-summary/
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> I want to thank the organisers for inviting me to present 
> OpenCitySmart [2] and GeoForAll ideas at TU Delft Urban Thinkers 
> Campus “Education for the City We Need”  There has been growing 
> attention to the event, in view of the fact that education for the New 
> Urban Agenda is one of the main challenges (and one of the great 
> opportunities) for the implementation of the NUA.
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> The final report will be launched at the World Urban Forum in Kuala 
> Lumpur next week.
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> Best wishes,
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> Suchith
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> [1] 
> https://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/06/education-for-the-city-we-need-how-to-integrate-the-un-habitat-new-urban-agenda-in-higher-education-curricula/
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> [2] 
> https://www.devex.com/news/how-nasa-and-the-un-are-using-location-intelligence-to-build-smart-cities-in-developing-countries-89721 
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