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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi Patrick,
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<div>Thank you for sharing this and i agree with your assessment. </div>
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<div>Expanding the OSGeo platform, World Wind, MapStory etc and links already established through G4A are worth much much bigger for us for the long term. We are better off with focussing on building up the seed crystal slowly but steadily. There is an old
Indian saying which roughly translates as ' with a seed you can create a thousand forests over time'.</div>
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<div id="divRpF953383" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan@nasa.gov]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 15, 2015 8:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] USA: Network to Support City-University Partnerships<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Suchith,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I’ve got a pretty bad attitude on anything substantial coming from large organizations, particularly CMU, in the area of Smart Cities. So I am probably the
wrong person to ask. Getting a basic app into place with just a couple cities working in concert is all we need for a seed crystal. What we will get from these large organizations is more ‘think tank’ stuff that talks endlessly about ‘what is needed and why’
without a whit of sustainable applied results to show for all the grandiose noise.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The MetroLab Network (http://metrolabnetwork.heinz.cmu.edu/), announced at the White House Smart Cities Forum, seeks to strengthen and create partnerships between metro areas and their respective universities
to research, develop, and deploy innovative technologies to address challenges facing the nation’s urban areas. The Network, supported by a $1 million grant from MacArthur, will provide the opportunity to share successes, address challenges, and build shared
platforms for experimentation and data among cities and universities to improve the urban condition. - See more at:
<a href="https://www.macfound.org/press/from-field/network-support-city-university-partnerships/" target="_blank">
https://www.macfound.org/press/from-field/network-support-city-university-partnerships/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we are doing all we can to get that seed crystal sparkling in the sunlight of G4A. With a million bucks, we could have more
than a seed crystal, something more like a golden egg-laying goose, and urban dwelling one, also popping out baby geese of similar sustainable ilk, one for every city on the planet. To quote Mercutio to Romeo “<a name="46">We waste our lights in vain, like
lamps by day.</a>” We know what is needed, we just need to do it, and scale accordingly as cities join up. We may be a bit slow now, but to quote the Friar to Romeo “Wisely and slow; they
<i>stumble</i> that run <i>fast</i>.” </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">(650) 604-5656 (office)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">(650) 269-2788 (cell)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Suchith Anand<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 15, 2015 10:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA; ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: USA: Network to Support City-University Partnerships</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">May i request any of our US colleagues and universities to follow up the links Sergio send at <a href="https://www.macfound.org/press/from-field/network-support-city-university-partnerships/" target="_blank">https://www.macfound.org/press/from-field/network-support-city-university-partnerships/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Patrick - do you have any ideas on how we can use this opportunity to explore collaborations for Urban science thematic?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">
<a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA [sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 15, 2015 4:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> USA: Network to Support City-University Partnerships</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">Maybe of interest for the Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic Group...</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Sergio Acosta y Lara</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Departamento de Geomática</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Dirección Nacional de Topografía</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">URUGUAY</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black">The MetroLab Network (<a href="http://metrolabnetwork.heinz.cmu.edu/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442263828443_2651" target="_blank"><span style="background:white">http://metrolabnetwork.heinz.cmu.edu/</span></a>),
announced at the White House Smart Cities Forum, seeks to strengthen and create partnerships between metro areas and their respective universities to research, develop, and deploy innovative technologies to address challenges facing the nation’s urban areas.
The Network, supported by a $1 million grant from MacArthur, will provide the opportunity to share successes, address challenges, and build shared platforms for experimentation and data among cities and universities to improve the urban condition. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black">Source: <a href="https://www.macfound.org/press/from-field/network-support-city-university-partnerships/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442263828443_2730" target="_blank">https://www.macfound.org/press/from-field/network-support-city-university-partnerships/</a></span></p>
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