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Many thanks Suchith!<br>
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).<br>
Everybody who is interested in this First MiniMapathon Big
Challenge, please contact me!<br>
The idea is to have (at least) one champion for every country. Offer
yourself for coordinating the activity in your country, please! <br>
<br>
Best regards!<br>
Maria<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 14/05/2016 11:17, Suchith Anand ha
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color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
On behalf of Geo4All , i am pleased to share the slides
and recordings of the webinar on
<b>"Humanitarian Mapathons for Children"</b> as part of
the <b>"Open Geospatial Science & Applications"
webinar series</b>.
<br>
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<b>Presenters: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Marco Minghini,
Aldo Torrebruno (Politecnico di Milano), and Tyler
Radford (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)</b><br>
<br>
<b>Talk abstract:</b><br>
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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.<br>
<br>
The recordings and slides of the webinar is avialable at
the Geo4All webinars page at
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/"
target="_blank">http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/</a>
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The background of this webinar is at <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_map_swaziland_for_malaria_elimination"
target="_blank">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_map_swaziland_for_malaria_elimination">https://hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_map_swaziland_for_malaria_elimination</a></a>
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Our thanks to <b>Prof. Maria Brovelli, Dr. Marco
Minghini</b> 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.<b>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.</b>
There is an excellent article on Humanitarian Mapathons by
Marco Minghini for this month's newsletter at
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/"
target="_blank">http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/</a>
<br>
<br>
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] .
<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
<br>
Dr. Suchith Anand<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.geoforall.org/"
target="_blank">http://www.geoforall.org/</a>
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<br>
<b>Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial
Science </b><br>
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<br>
[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/humanitarian-mapathons-for-japan-and-ecuador/"
target="_blank">
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/humanitarian-mapathons-for-japan-and-ecuador/</a>
<br>
[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/04/mapping-response-contributions-for-nepal/"
target="_blank">
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/04/mapping-response-contributions-for-nepal/</a>
<br>
[3] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/"
target="_blank">http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/</a>
<br>
[4] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/"
target="_blank">
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/</a>
<br>
[5] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications"
target="_blank">
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications</a>
<br>
[6] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board"
target="_blank">
http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board</a> <br>
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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
Politecnico di Milano
ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
Sol Katz Award 2015
Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
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