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Thanks Suchith for your kind words. I see a lot of potentiality for
G4A and UN.<br>
Please, I want also to advertise about the seminar that Dr.
Kyong-Soo Eom will give on Monday afternoon 3:30 CET time. <br>
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For people close to Milan, you can register here<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eventi.polimi.it/#geospatial">https://www.eventi.polimi.it/#geospatial </a>
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The event will be also avialble in streaming:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqKblSZUBd0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqKblSZUBd0</a><br>
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Nice weekend!<br>
Maria<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 11/03/2016 22:47, Suchith Anand ha
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#000000;font-size: 10pt;">Thank you Maxi and Maria for this
excellent efforts. This is really strategic for us and i am
really pleased to see this developments.
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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Cannata [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 11, 2016 1:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:un@lists.osgeo.org">un@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [UN] Follow up from the UN openGIS
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<div dir="ltr">Dear UN committee members,
<div>as you may know in the past three days Maria and I
participated on the behalf of OSGeo to the
"GeoSHAPE/Arbiter & OpenGDS Workshop" for UN OpenGIS
initiative.</div>
<div><br>
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<div>This was the result of a collaboration between UN and
OSGeo which started in Seoul during the FOSS4G where the
OSGeo board took the commitment of participating in the
UN OpenGIS initiative.</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Brief of the workshop</div>
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<div>The workshop was attended by about 30 representatives
from UN , member states, OSGeo, GeoSHAPE [1] (USA
project) and OpenGDS [2] (Korean project) community.</div>
<div><br>
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<div>This initiative intends to develop an effective and
flexible open source solution to support the UN field
missions around the globe.</div>
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</div>
<div>The location of the workshop were Brindisi where the
UN data center hosts the geospatial infrastructure to
provide required services (currently based on
proprietary solutions). </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>While the first two days were dedicated to the
presentation of the selected open source software
technologies ([1] & [2]), the third and fourth days
were dedicated to define a strategy and to better
understand the UN needs.</div>
<div>The last day was dedicated to sum-up and workshop
closing works.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>During this workshop I had the opportunity to present
OSGeo with its strategy, its community, its committees
and its projects while Maria presented the Geo4All
committee and its outreach activities.<br>
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<div><br>
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<div>During the meeting UN decided to adopt a spiral
approach which encompass the development of pilot
applications<br>
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<div><br>
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<div>The first spiral will be implemented by using the
selected technologies which were "offered" by USA and
Korea and will implement two case studies:</div>
<div>- geoportal</div>
<div>- data analysis</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>UN recognize the need to prioritize the first
implementation (spiral) that will be strategic to
further develop the initiative but at the same time the
initiative want to be inclusive and new opportunity are
appropriately taken into consideration.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>To make it clear, unless not declared, UN is not
supporting this initiative economically, so the
participants provides their commitment on voluntary
basis or funded by their nation.<br>
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<div><br>
</div>
<div>The work will continue in the next months by
analyzing the UN requirements and possible technical
solutions.<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>The contributions they expect from OSGeo are:</div>
<div>- expertise on open source software</div>
<div>- access to the incubation process</div>
<div>- bridge / connection with the private sector</div>
<div>- connection with OSGeo projects</div>
<div>- connection with Geo4All labs</div>
<div>- support in education, research and training</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
<div>Both Maria and I were included as member in the
technical committee of the new initiative which is
named UNOGeo (United Nation Open Geospatial).</div>
</div>
<div><br>
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<div>I believe this is a great opportunity for OSGeo to
better understand the UN requirements so that OSGeo
projects can better implement / support UN mission and
have in the future larger role. Moreover i think it is
also beneficiary for the whole movement to see also the
UN rely on FOSS4G, and on OSGeo projects as they are
behind the currently selected technologies.</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Best Regards,</div>
<div>Massimiliano</div>
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<div>[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/ODTBuilder/Builder"
target="_blank">https://github.com/ODTBuilder/Builder</a></div>
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