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

[Jean Paul Ngalams]

Thanks Gerhardus, I will have a look at it!

Kind regards!


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis <
gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
>>
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>> Jean Paul NGALAMULUME TSH.
>> Contact:+243 9 97 53 47 59
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