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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Please find below the draft of the proposed panel session at AAG 2019. We need two volunteers who are planning to attend AAG and interested in co-organising this session to please let me know by 22nd October.</p>
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<b>AAG 2019 PANEL </b></p>
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<b>Enabling the Right to Benefit from Geospatial Scientific Progress for everyone </b></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">At the 2019 AAG Conference, YouthMappers will be organising a mapathan and the GeoForAll community aims to support this excellent initiative by bringing together a panel session looking into ideas for enabling the Right to
Benefit from Geospatial Scientific Progress for everyone through Open Principles in Geospatial Education.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Geographic Information Science is an important contributor to the advancement of human knowledge, as well to solving so many societal challenges.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Through
there has been huge advances in Geographic Information Science over the the last few decades, the benefits of Geospatial education and entrepreneurship opportunities are very limited for economically poor students and communities. GIS was an expensive technology
and hence many economically poor students and communities did not have access to this over many decades.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">The last decade has seen a rapid growth in open source geospatial software and open data developments which has now made geospatial software</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">and education opportunities available to all. Open principles in education (open educational resources, free and open software, open data, open standards , open access
to research publications) are a big enabler for</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">
</span><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size: 12px;">making geoeducation </span></font><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-size: 12px;">opportunities accessible to all .</span></font></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How do we enable geoeducation opportunities for all? How can </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Open Principles in Geospatial Education</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> help </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">enable</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">everyone
to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications? How can we create a global community of thinkers</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">committed to enabling geoeducation</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">opportunities
for all?</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you are interested in co-chairing this session, please email</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">to </span><a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" id="LPlnk228550" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
by Wednesday October 2</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2nd</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 17 October 2018 16:16<br>
<b>To:</b> Suchith Anand; Guido Stein; Mueller, Thomas<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Chad Blevins; geoforall-ab@lists.osgeo.org; Thomas Gertin; Sven Fuhrmann; Zeballos, Marcela<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Hi Suchith – you capture it very accurately! Thanks, and looking forward to this!</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Patricia</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#0D0D0D">Patricia Solís, PhD</span></b></p>
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</b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 7:06 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Guido Stein <guido@guidostein.com>, "Mueller, Thomas" <Mueller@calu.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Chad Blevins <cblevins@usaid.gov>, "Solis, Patricia" <Patricia.Solis@ttu.edu>, "geoforall-ab@lists.osgeo.org" <geoforall-ab@lists.osgeo.org>, Thomas Gertin <tgertin@gmail.com>, Sven Fuhrmann <sfuhrman@gmu.edu>, "Zeballos, Marcela" <Marcela.Zeballos@ttu.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>AAG synergies and collaboration- telemeeting followup</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Thank you to Patricia, Marcella, Tom, Phillip who were able to join our telemeeting. . I hope I correctly summarised the main points from the discussions below . Please correct/edit/modify as needed.</span></p>
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<li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We discussed ideas for supporting YouthMappers hackathon at AAG 2019. Patricia, Marcella are involved in organising this. We can support them by helping organise a panel session (just
before the hackathon) bring key panelists. </span></li></ol>
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Action - Suchith to prepare a draft abstract for the proposed panel session and send it to GeoForAll list with request that any two volunteers who are planning to be at AAG 2019 act as co-chairs for the session. We can then submit this by Oct 24th?
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">2. We discussed the importance of having strong presence for OSGeo at AAG 2019. Once idea was to have OSGeo Live USBs handed out to all AAG participants, students etc . This will be a great way to reach out to
the participants as well as serve a great value to the participants. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">There will costs but doable if we are able to find an organisation to sponsor the OSGeo Live USBs ? Guido- it will be great to have your ideas for this. The sponsor can put their logo in the USB? All ideas welcome.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">Patricia - please add any other points I missed? Thanks.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">Best wishes,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">Suchith</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"></span></p>
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