[OSGeo Africa] Invitation to guest lecture: Why open source software and open data are good for the economy (and fun to use)

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

Hi Jean Paul,
www.openstreetmap.org is a good start if you are interested in open data
that provides map and land cover information.

There is also a number of excellent talks to be found at
http://stateofthemap.us/schedule/ where a number of people have talked
about open data contributions from local governments and in one of the
talks an estimate was mentioned about the postiive financial affect from
sharing data. I believe it was about data sharing in New York City and New
York State.

Regards


On 6 June 2014 12:17, Jean Paul Ngalams <jpngalams at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the invitation but me I don't live in South Africa, I 'm in
> Democratic republic of Congo, what can be all disposition in my case??? I
> 'm so interest by Open Source Data and all domain which refer to it; I need
> to be one of contributor in the future, so I decide to learn more about it!
>
> Thanks and hoping to read back from you soon!
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Serena Coetzee <serenacoetzee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The Centre for Geoinformation Science invites you to a research seminar
>> presented by the *Open source and data for geospatial research* focus
>> group:
>>
>> Why open source software and open data are good for the economy (and fun
>> to use)
>> by Gavin Fleming, AfriSpatial
>>
>> Date:    12 June 2014
>> Time:     11h30 – 12h20
>> Venue:      Geography 1-2, University of Pretoria
>>
>> Attend five guest lectures at UP and get one PLATO CPD point.
>>
>> Please use the University road entrance for easy access to the new
>> parking garage.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Serena Coetzee
>>
>> Geography Building 3-5
>> Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics
>> and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028,
>> South Africa
>> email: serena.coetzee at up.ac.za Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis
>> Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823 · Fax: +27 12 420 6385
>>
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