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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Hi Charlie</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Thank you for your leadership and sharing these excellent updates.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I will promote IASC 2023 CfP and encourage colleagues to submit papers on open education and FOSS4G for GeoForAll
panel.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Teaching the Commons Video and Podcast Contest for World Commons Week 2022 is a great idea. I will promote this
and encourage colleagues to participate in this video contest.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This will also help educators to think on
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Ethics of Digital Feudalism in GIS Education</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">What policies and curriculum are universities, educators adopting to reduce Digital Feudalism in GIS education?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Do your courses cover topics on data rights, digital citizenship ? </span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Are there any university policies and code of conduct to follow if any academics/researchers are funded by any vendor
(for example, through GIS vendor funded faculty posts , research funding by any GIS vendors)? </span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Can academics and researchers publish articles on GIS education promoting the vendor products (either directly or
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">More details at </span><a href="https://rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/ethics-digital-feudalism-gis-education" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/ethics-digital-feudalism-gis-education</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://datavaluesdigest.substack.com/p/how-digital-feudalism-hurts-farmers"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://datavaluesdigest.substack.com/p/how-digital-feudalism-hurts-farmers</span></a> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Best wishes</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 27 August 2022 14:29<br>
<b>To:</b> geoforall@lists.osgeo.org <geoforall@lists.osgeo.org><br>
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Dear GeoForAll colleagues,</p>
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I’m writing you to let you know about two upcoming events GeoForAll members might be interested in. Apologies in advance for a longish email.</p>
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1. <b><a href="https://wcw2022.iasc-commons.org/">World Commons Week2022</a> – Teaching Video and Podcast contest</b>.</p>
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World Commons Week (WCW) is an online, global event I’ve been running for 5 years out of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (<a href="iasc-commons.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">IASC-commons.org</a>). WCW is an event meant to celebrate
scholarship and practice around “the commons”. Open Source Geospatial software and open access educational materials are both examples of “digital commons.” You may remember that GeoForAll did a webinar in the
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqrUQ9apFkc" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">
WCW2020 event</a>.</p>
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In this year’s WCW 2022 event, we are running a <a href="https://wcw2022.iasc-commons.org/teaching-video-contest/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">
Teaching the Commons Video and Podcast Contest</a>. More information about this is below [1]. It would be wonderful to see some GeoForAll education or OSGeo-related software submissions in this contest! Submission deadline is November 15<sup>th</sup>.
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<b>2. <a href="https://2023.iasc-commons.org/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">IASC’s biennial international conference will be in Nairobi, Kenya in June 2023</a></b> </p>
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It would be wonderful to see some GeoForAll activity there. Many of the conference
<a href="https://2023.iasc-commons.org/#conference-sub-themes" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">
sub-themes</a> are of interest to people affiliated with GeoForAll. There is a call for Panels out right now and Subtheme #10 is “<b>Opportunities and challenges of the digital commons</b>.” </p>
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A GeoForAll panel (or individual papers) around open education, open data or FOSS4G software would be a welcomed contribution! </p>
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It might even be possible to organize a set of papers that could, potentially, lead to a special issue in the International Journal of the Commons that I could help navigate if there is interest. </p>
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Or, it might be possible – if someone wanted to propose this – run a workshop on Open Source GIS, co-located at this event. If you are interested in any of these ideas, email me at
<a href="mailto:cschweik@umass.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">cschweik@umass.edu</a>.
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Finally, related to #2, the conference organizers are actively looking for conference financial sponsors to help scholars and students from African countries get to this conference. If there are any GeoForAll or OSGeo affiliated projects or organizations who
would like to be a conference sponsor, please contact me. </p>
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I hope some of you will consider participating on one or both events to help promote GeoForAll and FOSS4G!</p>
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Professor Charlie Schweik</p>
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President-elect of the <a href="https://iasc-commons.org/">International Association for the Study of the Commons</a></p>
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[1] WCW Video/podcast contest</p>
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The aim of this contest is to produce a high-quality, well-conceptualized video or podcast that is 3-5 minutes long and instructional around commons terminology or commons-related concepts. Video or Podcast entries should target either: primary school age children;
secondary or high school age children; university undergraduate and graduate students; or the general public.</p>
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<div>Co-founder, <a href="http://worldlibrarians.org" target="_blank">WorldLibrarians.org</a></div>
<div>Co-lead, <a href="http://UMassAir.org" target="_blank">UMassAir.org</a></div>
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