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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Dear All</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">it is time to make the proposal to OSGeo Board for the activities of the UN Committee in 2019.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">We have the UN Open GIS Initiative entering in its third year of activities; many people of the UN staff have been trained in QGIS and PostGIS (more than 100) thanks to volunteers of GeoForAll. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Currently, there is the third edition of QGIS (Victoria Rautenbach chairing the initiative; Thomas Mueller and Cameron Green mentoring)and the second one of PostGIS (Ivana Ivanova chairing, Paolo Corti, Oliva Martin Sanchez,
and Gregory Giuliani mentoring). </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">About UN Open GIS Initiative the request will be:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">1) support for attending a couple of project meeting and training - (one will be probably in South Sudan) 5000$</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">2) one UN OSGeo Challenge (similar to what we organized last year) to prepare a new training material course on PostGIS (the one we are using, which is a Boundless one, has to be updated and re-built considering the experience
of the trainees and trainers). The budget for this initiative will be 3000 $, the same as the initiatives of last year. In case we got financed, Ivana Ivanova and I can be the mentor of the winner of the Challenge.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">3) Moreover, we can ask some budget for another training course about SDGs and open data/open software. Last year Codrina Maria Ilie was the winner and the training material is almost ready and will be released soon (it
is about the computation of SDG indicator 9.1.1 using QGIS). The budget can be 3000 $, the same as last year and Serena Coetzee and I can be the mentor.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Obviously if you there is somebody who wants to offer her/himself as a mentor, they are more than welcome!</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Please let me know if you have comments. If none, I will proceed with the proposal.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Bets regards,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Maria</p>
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<span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli</b></span><br>
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