[OSGeo-Announce] GeoForAll Newsletter

[Jorge Sanz]

On behalf of GeoForAll community I am pleased to share the latest
edition of our newsletter.

We would like to introduce our colleagues at Hellenic digital earth
Centre of Excellence, Greece, as our “GeoForAll” lab of the month.
Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Greece, has developed as
a hub for fostering interactions and cross disciplinary collaborations
not only between Aristotle University of Thessaloniki students and
faculty, but it is also the hub of the global GeoforAll initiative.
Dr. Nikos Lambrinos initiated the idea of the GeoForAll newsletter,
and in just one year's time, this has become the key platform for
expanding our ideas and building closer collaborations with
universities and industry worldwide.

We are also happy to present Sergio Acosta Y Lara  as our
GeoAmbassodor.  The amazing work that Sergio and colleagues in Uruguay
have done through gvSIG Batovi initiative has been an inspiration for
all of us.  Sergio is a true global citizen who has been working
toward expanding opportunities for geospatial education for all.
Sergio is the leading force who took the initiative to expand
GeoFotAll across South America and is the co-chair of South America.

There are some nice articles including  letter from Patrick Hogan
(NASA) regarding the NASA/Trentino Europa Challenge. Thanks to
everyone contributing articles to our newsletter
http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/


We welcome PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India as our new
lab. Details at
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/09/kalpana-chawla-chair-on-geospatial-technology-and-our-new-osgeo-lab-at-pec-university-of-technology-chandigarh-india/


GeoForAll’s mission is make geospatial education opportunities open to
all and to make sure we all work together to create global citizens
contributing to the betterment of humanity. Caring and Sharing are
important values that all students should learn . Details of why this
is important at
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/sharing-is-caring-why-openness-is-key-for-true-empowerment-and-sustainability/

Please be our GeoAmbassadors and share these ideas with all. Join the
mailing list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall

For the freely available training materials visit
http://www.geoforall.org/training/

For those wishing to learn GIS, there are  free online materails
produced by GeoForAll colleagues at GeoAcademy. Thier  FOSS4G Academy
Curriculum with comprehensive QGIS tutorials are at
http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/

Download QGIS from http://qgis.org/en/site/     (there is also lot of
documentation for learning at http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/index.html

Recording of the Open Principles in Education webinar  can be accessed
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmGoC6iFds4

Open principles in education (open educational resources, free and
open software, open data, open standards etc) are key for  true
empowerment of staff and students globally and making education and
opportunities accessible to all . We look forward to working and
building collaborations with all interested in this education mission.
Access to quality education and opportunities is key for getting rid
of extreme poverty and enabling broadly shared prosperity for all.

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/

GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science