<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dear Suchith:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Your talk was truly motivational for all the
audience. Everyone was excited with your motivation. Our community is living a
very special moment, because for the first time we are building an entire new
legislation on Geoinformation in a democratic process, including participation
of society, government, industry and the academia.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I would like to thank you for coming here to Brazil
and share important insights in this process. Also, I hope this partnership of
OSGeo Labs network continue to give us many opportunities to spread the word
and create collaborative links across the globe.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Best regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Silvana Camboim</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Federal University of Paraná/Brazil</span></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2014-05-29 4:03 GMT-03:00 Suchith Anand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear All,<br>
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Earlier this week, i had the opportunity of participating in the NSDI meetings in Brazil. Details at <a href="http://www.planejamento.gov.br/jornadainde/index.asp" target="_blank">http://www.planejamento.gov.br/jornadainde/index.asp</a><br>
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I would like to thank the Ministry of Planning, Government of Brazil for organising this excellent event and also for their kind invitation for keynote presentation where i shared the developments in Open Geospatial Science and Applications and its importance for widening education opportunities, new jobs creation and innovation ecosystems in Geoservices. Details at <a href="http://www.planejamento.gov.br/jornadainde/evento.asp?evt=2" target="_blank">http://www.planejamento.gov.br/jornadainde/evento.asp?evt=2</a><br>
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I would like to share some of the things i learned from our colleagues in Brazil which i think is relevant to the wider community.<br>
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1. There are fast paced developments happening in Geospatial domain and it is important the countries should keep updating their Geoinformation policies to reflect this and take advantage of the new opportunities. I am pleased to see countries like Brazil are well tuned to global developments.<br>
2. It is important to have inputs from the academic community and i was pleased to see this bringing together of key people from government and academia to discuss ideas and good practices.<br>
3. Education and Capacity building is key for expanding opportunities.<br>
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I am looking forward to building strong research and teaching collaborations in Brazil and worldwide in Open Geospatial Science.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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