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Hi Suchith,<br>
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I'm wary of the practicalities of managing a geobadges system.<br>
My reasoning:<br>
Geobadges will be of best value when they have built up a brand and
are widely recognised.<br>
This requires marketing, associating of the badge with something of
interest (such as associated with quality). To build association of
quality with badges requires some review criteria and review system,
which requires quite a significant amount of volunteer effort before
there is enough content to make the geobadges useful. As such, I
think this would be a hard concept to get off the ground.<br>
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Cheers, Cameron<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/04/2016 5:46 am, Maria Antonia
Brovelli wrote:<br>
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<div>Wonderful idea! I can't attend the meeting due to other
commitments but having Geobadges for minimapathons is nice!!</div>
<div>Many thanks!</div>
<div>Maria & Marco</div>
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Da: Suchith Anand <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk"><Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk></a> <br>
Data: 01/04/2016 17:20 (GMT+01:00) <br>
A: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a>, Anastasia Tom
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Oggetto: [Geo4All] GeoBadges for service to Geo4All education
activities <br>
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font-size:10pt">Dear Geo4All colleagues,<br>
<br>
Last week, i emailed the community with some background info
on GeoBadges [1] send by Anastasia Tom of the American
Geographical Society [2] . So far, i did not get any response
/ideas .<br>
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<div>I understand that badges can also be given for service.
For example, we have done Geo4All Educator Awards[3] last
year , we can plan to have badges given for all nominees etc
and expand ideas for giving GeoBadges for service to OSGeo
education activities (from contributing tutorials, course
materials etc) to acknowledge and encourage more
participation. I would welcome ideas from the community on
how we can make use of this GeoBadges opportunity from AGS
for expanding our impact.
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I suggest we explore ideas for acknowledging the amazing
service that all colleagues are providing for various
Geo4All education activities (Ambassador, Educator etc). We
have an amazing team of contributors at all levels (who are
the magic behind Geo4All) and it is high time, we put in
place a structure to show our appreciation and thank you to
these amazing people for their selfless service for the
benefit of the wider community.<br>
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Some examples below:<br>
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<li>We could give <b>GeoBadges for Service for our
Education efforts</b>. We have the Geo4All Educator
Awards and this can be extended in future by having all
nominees receiving GeoBadges and Citation for their
work. I suggest that Charlie (as the chair of award
committee or his nominee) should lead this.</li>
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<li>We could plan <b>GeoBadges for our GeoAmbassador
program for expanding Spatial Literacy and geographic
awareness in Schools globally</b>. Once the MapStory
platform is launched with new functionalities, we would
be announcing our partnership with MapStory Foundation
to plan spatial literacy for schools globally to help
build spatially thinking society. We need to have lot of
GeoAmbassadors (who are all volunteers) to make this
program a success. One way to acknowledge the
contributions of our GeoAmbassadors is we provide
GeoBadges for our Spatial Literacy GeoAmbassadors. All
ideas welcome on how we can plan this.</li>
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<li>We can also plan to give <b>GeoBadges to the students
who are contributing to the Humanitarian Mapathons</b>
that Maria is leading. Maria , Marco should be the
point of contacts for these <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2016-March/002815.html"
target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2016-March/002815.html</a> </li>
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Please let me know your thoughts/ideas on this. I am
planning to have a tele meeting with Anastasia on next
Friday April 8th 17:00 (UK time)<br>
to learn how GeoBadges work and help us understand more
details. If any of you wish to join this tele meeting (max 4
volunteers) please let me know asap. Thanks.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
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[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://americangeo.org"
target="_blank">http://americangeo.org</a> <br>
[3] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.geoforall.org/news/?action=story&id=20"
target="_blank">http://www.geoforall.org/news/?action=story&id=20</a> </div>
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