<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dear Members of ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS
Labs Network,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">we are pleased to
announce that after successful application in July 2014, the website of Kyiv
National University OSGeo Research and Education Lab (Ukraine) is up and
running — <a href="http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/" target="_blank">http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/</a> and
we continue our work on the following directions:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">education and training;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• research;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• open source geospatial software development; and</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• support of its applied adoption;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• users support;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">• </span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">public geospatial data.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="UK" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The website currently
is in Ukrainian, but we’re about to launch English version to become more
accessible for international cooperation.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Best wishes,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">-- <br></p><div dir="ltr"><div>Daria Svidzinska<br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">PhD, Associate Professor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Faculty of Geography</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">website: <a href="http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/" target="_blank">http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">e-mail: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="mailto:lab.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span lang="DE">lab.osgeo@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">facebook: </span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background:rgb(238,238,236)"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lab.osgeo.ua" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/lab.osgeo.ua</a></span></p></div></div>
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