<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Suchith,</div><div><br></div><div>That is correct. Ideally earlier. But beginning of April would work. Our new uploader is deployed to production, so anyone who wants to simply upload layers (for instance, of their schools physical evolution) could do that now. The storytelling work is yet to be finalized and pushed to production.</div><div><br></div><div>We intend to hold a global instructional on the new MapStory for the Geo4All community soon after launch, which would cover all dimensions of the platform including crowd-editing and storytelling.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your interest!</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div>703-981-9373</div><div><br>On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:52 AM, Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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It will help show the scalability of the initiative through time. For example, few schools in 2005 to 12000 schools now, where these schools are , how many students in each school benefitted over time, teachers trained, no. of computers in each school etc.
So in a few minutes anyone can get a holistic idea of the wider impact .<br>
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I understand fro the MapStory website, that MapStory site to being updated with more functionality etc and it should be ready in April beginning? Chris, Jon - is that correct? So maybe Pradeep by the time you get all the background information on IT@Schools
, you will be able to add the new MapStory with more functionalities.<br>
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Also what i hope, is for our Geo4All spatial literacy program, then students in each of these 12000 schools can look at thier school as an example and start a MapStory on thier local geography, history etc and link to IT@School developments (add narratives
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 27, 2016 2:29 AM<br>
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<p>Hello Suchith,</p>
<p>Great idea. And I will look into the Kerala experience of IT@Schools. </p>
<p>All together it would be a great MapStory.</p>
<p>Best</p>
<p>Pradeep</p>
<p>On 24-02-2016 18:16, Suchith Anand wrote:</p>
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Hi Chris, Jon,<br>
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I would like to connect you with Silvana and Mike and the wider community who are running the Geo4All Cartographic Challenge as part of the International Map Year so that we can plan to have MapStory as a platform to help provide some excellent interactive
examples of How Openness can help to reduce inequality esp. in providing quality education opportunities for students from economically poor backgrounds.<br>
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There are many examples we can look into. For example, it will be great to have MapStory on the spatio-temporal development of gvSIG Batovi initiative in Uruguay (as we have Sergio cc in who can provide us more details and contacts and IT@Schools
<a href="https://www.itschool.gov.in/glance.php" target="_blank">https://www.itschool.gov.in/glance.php</a> in Kerala (cc in Pradeepkumar ,University of Kerala who is working to establish an OSGeo lab in Kerala University)<br>
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This will also help us convey the impact of open principles in education. It takes years to really see the impact of education efforts.<br>
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Silvana, Mike - please discuss your competition ideas with Chris, Jon and any specific queries you have please inform any help needed.<br>
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Sergio, Pradeep - can you please help with this. Thanks.<br>
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All - if you have any other examples , please discuss ideas for developing MapStory based on your educational examples on this and we can link all this in our website later. It will greatly help policy makers understand the impact of open principles in education
in empowering students globally and making them part of the digital economy opportunities.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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<strong>Sent:</strong> Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:17 PM<br>
<strong>To:</strong> Silvana Camboim; <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a>; OSGeo Discussions<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Our thanks to
<strong>Professor Silvana Comboim </strong> (The Federal University of Paraná, Brazil) and chair of the ICA Commission on Open source Geotechnologies and
<strong>Mike Finn</strong> (United States Geological Survey, USA) and cochair of the ICA Commission on Open source Geotechnologies for leading this excellent
<strong>Geo4All Cartographic Challenge</strong> as part of the <strong>International Map Year to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on Reducing inequality within and among countries.</strong> I think this is a great opportunity to highlight
the importance of working together on the bigger aim to empower and provide quality education opportunities for our bottom billions brothers and sisters worldwide (who are too poor that they dont even have a voice).<br>
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<strong>Digital technologies are a big enabler for providing Quality education opportunities for everyone</strong>. The costs of hardware is coming down (and will keep coming down), internet access is increasing even in poor countries (and will keep increasing)
but the biggest artificial barrier is the high cost of properitary software. So by having free and open software will enable billions of our brothers and sisters globally to also get opportunities for getting quality education. I have seen this happening in
poor schools in my own state Kerala in India, where thanks to a pioneering initiative called<strong> IT@Schools</strong> which is also
<strong>the world's largest simultaneous deployment of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) based ICT education providing opportunities for over 12,000 schools, benifitting 6 million students and 200,000 teachers in the state</strong>. Details at
<a href="https://www.itschool.gov.in/glance.php" target="_blank">https://www.itschool.gov.in/glance.php</a> The scalability of this initiative has been amazing and this would not have happened if we had to depend of properitery vendors.
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There are lot of examples around the world that shows the power of open principles in education. For example, our colleagues in
<span class="st">Uruguay</span> (Sergio Acosta y Lara and others) are doing amazing work through
<strong>gvSIG Batovi initiative</strong> providing digital education opportunities to all students in government schools across the country through the wider<strong> CEIBAL initiative</strong>. See details at
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo</a> (video with English translation).<br>
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Education and empowerment are key for getting rid of extreme poverty and help create digital economy opportunities also for billions of our economically poor brothers and sisters across our planet and we cannot allow creating artificial digital barriers
through high costs properitary licences to keep continue denying them their rightful opportunities for a better future for thier children.
<strong>Access to quality education opportunities is everyone's birthright</strong>.<br>
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Education and empowerment of students are also key for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations.
<strong>So let us all work together to enable open principles in education to help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and opportunities for everyone.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith <br>
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To celebrate this year, ICA Commissions are preparing a series of activities to demonstrate the ability of Cartography helping to solve global issues, accordingly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals [2]</p>
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The result of this will be a poster exposition and an Atlas published by ICA. Each goal (there are 17) will have one poster. The Open Source Geotechnologies Commission got the Goal number 10 (“Reduce inequality within and among countries”). Under this goal,
there are 7 targets detailed in page 21 of this document [3].</p>
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10.1 By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average<br>
10.2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status<br>
10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard<br>
10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality<br>
10.5 Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of <span style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">such</span>regulations<br>
10.6 Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions<br>
10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies<br>
10.a Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries,in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements<br>
10.b Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the needis greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked
developing countries, in accordance withtheir national plans and programmes<br>
10.c By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors withcosts higher than 5 percent</p>
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This challenge is a call for all Geo4labs for inputs to construct this poster in an open and collaborative way. The idea is to expand the poster to a website, where projects, applications, and other solutions could be shared. This is a great opportunity to
showcase the labs outcomes in the UN environment in this very sensitive and important global issue. Any other ideas on this project are welcome!</p>
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<span style="text-decoration:underline"><strong style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">How to participate:</strong></span></p>
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Send and abstract from 500 to 1000 words include as many pictures of classes, projects, field works, mapathons, and, of course, maps and map interfaces.
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Optional: Video with up to 5 minutes presenting your lab activities. </li><li style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">
Send the results to <a href="mailto:geo4all.cartographicchallenge@gmail.com" style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:#1982d1; text-decoration:none" target="_blank">geo4all.cartographicchallenge@gmail.com</a> until
March 31<span style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-size:10px; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; min-height:0px; line-height:1px">st</span>, 2016.
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During the month of April, the posters layout ideas will be open to vote and collaboration.</p>
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<strong style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Outputs :</span></strong></p>
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Website with results and edited video </li><li style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">
Publication of the abstracts with ISBN </li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Silvana Camboim (chair) – <a href="mailto:silvanacamboim@gmail.com" target="_blank">silvanacamboim@gmail.com</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mike Finn (co-chair) - <a href="mailto:mfinn@usgs.gov" target="_blank">mfinn@usgs.gov</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Open Source Geotechnologies Commission – <a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/" target="_blank">http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/</a></span></p>
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[1] <a href="http://mapyear.org/" style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:#1982d1; text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://mapyear.org/</a>/</p>
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