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<div>Hi Suchith. In my opinion the best is to have a UN Committee meeting ( Hangout or IRC, even if my personal preference is for the former).</div>
<div>Willingly I'll organize it.</div>
<div>Next week I'll send details about it and I'll put an announcement on the wiki in such a way that people interested can put their names and google contacts.</div>
<div>Have a joyful week end</div>
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Da: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk> <br>
Data: 18/03/17 08:00 (GMT+01:00) <br>
A: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com>, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli@polimi.it>, un@lists.osgeo.org
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Cc: live-demo <Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org> <br>
Oggetto: Re: [Live-demo] meeting of UN OpenGIS in Brindisi - and OSGeo-LIve <br>
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<div class="PlainText">Thanks Cameron . I would also be been to get updates on this from Maria and others. so we can plan more synergies .<br>
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At the GWF 2017 in Hyderabad, i had some good discussions with key colleagues in UN GGIM colleagues and have emailed them on the need for synergies between UN GGIM activities and UN OpenGIS. I will follow up this and introduce you to the UN GGIM colleagues
as all the ideas you said are very important to be included.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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From: Live-demo <live-demo-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com><br>
Sent: 18 March 2017 3:05 AM<br>
To: Maria Antonia Brovelli; un@lists.osgeo.org<br>
Cc: live-demo<br>
Subject: Re: [Live-demo] meeting of UN OpenGIS in Brindisi - and OSGeo-LIve<br>
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Hi Maria, all,<br>
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I'd be interested to hear about ideas proposed to be taken into this UN meeting, and also to propose some ideas.<br>
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I've dug back through the UN email list and found Maria's last report (which was great) and copied below. Has there been any progress on ideas reported from that report?<br>
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Speaking as a member of the OSGeo-Live project, I think there is great potential to lever some of the investment we have put into OSGeo-Live to take into the UN and Geo4All context.<br>
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In particular, OSGeo-Live provides a stable platform from which training material can be built on top of, as proved by its wide use at many OSGeo and FOSS4G workshops.<br>
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It taps into contributors form the many OSGeo-Live projects to help create and maintain content.<br>
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It taps into translators for translating content.<br>
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It provides a stamp of quality.<br>
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And it provides a distribution pipeline.<br>
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I'd be keen to open a conversation within the UN context about this.<br>
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Warm regards, Cameron Shorter<br>
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On 12/3/17 11:50 pm, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:<br>
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Dear All<br>
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there will be a meeting of UN OpenGIS in Brindisi the 27 April 2017 at the UNGSC and I will be invited to attend. If there are no objections I plan to go there. There is a budget provided by the Board for such events.<br>
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As I want to fix the flight as soon as possible (avoiding expensive flights), I ask if there are some objections, to reply as soon as possible and in any case before March 17th.<br>
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Many thanks and best regards,<br>
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Maria<br>
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On 17/11/16 6:14 pm, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:<br>
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Dear All<br>
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I'm just back from the 2nd Workshop of UN Open GIS Initiative, which was organized within a more general Symposium about Technology in Peacekeeping. This choice was excellent because gave the possibility of presenting OSGeo and GeoForAll to a broader audience.<br>
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UN Open GIS proceeds speedily and some pieces of solution were presented both by the Korean and Boundless teams.<br>
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Moreover Sanghee Shin, one of our Directors, has been nominated Chair of the Technical Advisory Group.<br>
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In few words, the Workshop was intense, tiring but very positive.<br>
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We concluded with a webinar which will be available within the GeoForAll Series (thanks to Rafael Moreno and David Alvarez from ASPRS).<br>
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Below a more detailed report.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Maria<br>
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Updates on UN Open GIS Initiative<br>
From 7 to 11 November 2016 the Third International Partnership for<br>
Technology in Peacekeeping Symposium, hosted by the United Nations<br>
Department of Field Support (DFS) in cooperation with the Seoul<br>
Metropolitan Government, was held in Seoul, Republic of Korea at the<br>
Seoul City Hall.<br>
The Symposium brought together a wide range of actors to explore<br>
collaborative partnerships and projects to enhance information and<br>
communications technology (ICT) efforts in the following targeted areas:<br>
* Geospatial Information and Situational Awareness<br>
* Protection Technologies: Sensors, Surveillance and Reconnaissance<br>
* Innovation in Information and Communications Technologies<br>
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OSGeo was invited to the Symposium as one of the partners of the project<br>
UN Open GIS. Maria Brovelli attended the meeting on behalf both of the<br>
OSGeo UN Committee and GeoForAll (Educational outreach of OSGeo).<br>
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UN Open GIS Initiative is a project aiming at identifying and developing<br>
open source geospatial software and services that meets the requirements<br>
of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission<br>
partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing<br>
countries, international organizations, academia, NGO’s, private sector.<br>
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The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:<br>
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* Contributors: any organization who agrees with the objectives of<br>
the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative<br>
in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human<br>
resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic<br>
Board.<br>
* Observers: any individual person or organization who agree with<br>
the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS<br>
Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the<br>
Strategic Board.<br>
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The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:<br>
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* Strategic Board, consisting of representatives from each<br>
contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the<br>
Strategic Board. OSGeo and GeoForAll are part of the Strategic Board.<br>
Maria Brovelli represents there GeoForAll, OSGeo Educational Outreach<br>
and Massimiliano Cannata the OSGeo UN Committee.<br>
* The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic<br>
planning, creation of new Working Groups, called “Spirals”, election of<br>
co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement<br>
advisory group members, and assessment team members.<br>
* Three Co-Chairs (one appointed by UN and two elected among the<br>
Strategic Board members: ) and Secretariats<br>
* Technical Advisory Group (TAG)<br>
* Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)<br>
* Assessment Team (AT)<br>
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- The Spirals, i.e. the Working Groups, which at the moment are the<br>
following:<br>
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* Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (started March 11, 2016) led by<br>
Anthony Calamito (Boundless)<br>
* Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (started May, 2016) led by Maria<br>
Brovelli (OSGeo and GeoForAll)<br>
* Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (started March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong<br>
Kang (Republic of Korea)<br>
* Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (started March 11, 2016) led by<br>
Ki-Joune Li (Republic of Korea)<br>
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OSGeo and GeoForAll have been contributing to several aspects of the<br>
projects. The main contribution for sure has been that related to<br>
Capacity Building.<br>
Up to now people of OSGeo and GeoForAll have helped in selecting and<br>
revising already existing training courses about the basic geospatial<br>
tools of interest for the UN Staff supporting the peacekeeping mission,<br>
who are the staff we are in contact with. A survey provided to the UN<br>
staff showed that they are primarily interested in QGIS, PostGIS,<br>
GeoNode, Geoserver and Openlayers.<br>
We are therefore organising self-paced training courses, assisted by<br>
tutors of OSGeo, GeoForAll and other entities, like GeoAcademy and<br>
Boundless, and offered using the e-learning platform of Politecnico di<br>
Milano.<br>
We have been planned 4 editions of QGIS GeoAcademy (we are currently at<br>
the second edition) and 2 editions of PostGIS Boundless (starting from<br>
January, 9 2017).<br>
Totally around 80 staff of UN will be trained in using QGIS and around<br>
30 in PostGIS. Next year we will go ahead with the other software.<br>
Spreading the usage of Open Source software also within organisation as<br>
UN is one important point for OSGeo and that is the reason why the Board<br>
has chosen to put a so great effort on this initiative.<br>
Apart from the Capacity Building OSGeo will willingly work for<br>
incubating the software that will be available under the umbrella of UN<br>
Open GIS. This will ensure its quality and will give sustainability to<br>
the project itself.<br>
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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli<br>
Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor<br>
Politecnico di Milano<br>
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ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET<br>
Sol Katz Award 2015<br>
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