[Board] ICA-OSGeo MoU

[Jeff McKenna]

An update on this for the OSGeo Board:

Next week I will represent OSGeo at the launch of the ICA/OSGeo Lab at
the University of Pretoria, S.Africa (invite PDF attached).

-jeff




On 11-10-18 8:46 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
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> *The Open Source Geospatial Foundation and the International
> Cartographic Association (ICA) Memorandum of Understanding*
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> Nuremberg, Germany
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> September 27, 2011
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> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International
> Cartographic Association (ICA) have signed a Memorandum of 
> Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration
> opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in
> open source GIS software and data.
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> The MoU aims to  provide expertise and support for the establishment of
> Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the
> world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software
> technologies, training and expertise. In the first phase five
> laboratories will be established, one each in Asia, Europe, Africa, the
> Americas and Australasia which will act as nodes for future  expansion.
> It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting
> development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint
> organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA
> network for wider participation globally etc.
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> Professor Georg Gartner, President of the ICA, said "The International
> Cartographic Association (ICA) is committed to  supporting society and
> governments by collaboratively facilitating initiatives and programmes
> that establish and grow the capacity to deliver timely, comprehensive
> and useful geospatial information. This MoU responds to the challenges
> and issues related to the use of open source cartographic and GI
> software and data.  In considering this response, it is pertinent to
> note that ICA is interested in contributing to this initiative, and will
> champion the advancement of the initiative through their various
> individual and collaborative efforts.”
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> Arnulf Christl, President of OSGeo, said  "The Open Source Geospatial
> Foundation (OSGeo) is committed to support and build the highest level
> Open Source geospatial technology. It is our pleasure to be able to
> serve as a platform and multiplier for the cartographic domain, an area
> which needs creativity beyond pure technology. This MoU intends to
> bridge the gap between technology and cartographic requirements and we
> very much look forward to work with members of the International
> Cartographic Association to improve this. A very much hands-on objective
> of this MoU is to jointly organize walk-in events where cartographic
> professionals can access and use a set of software unencumbered by
> proprietary restrictions and vendor lock-in. Both organizations are also
> interested in supporting young academics by lowering the barrier to good
> cartography through collaborative efforts on both sides."
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> OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org/   is a not-for-profit organization founded
> in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative
> development of open source geospatial technologies and data.
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> ICA http://icaci.org/   is the world authoritative body for cartography,
> the discipline dealing with the conception, production, dissemination
> and study of maps.
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> On behalf of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies
> we strongly welcome this excellent initiative. This will be landmark
> opportunity for both OSGeo and ICA in building up synergies and bringing
> opportunities for lots of people worldwide to learn and benefit from
> geospatial technologies especially in developing countries. This will
> build upon the Open Source Geospatial Lab UK initiative started at the
> University of Nottingham. 
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> We are also pleased to announce that Open Source Geospatial Lab Malaysia
> is now being established by Dr. Tuong Thuy Vu in UNMC. Once fully
> established this will be the first such facility in Malaysia and will
> act as focus for building research and development there. It aims to
> help create collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and
> government organisations in open source GIS which will help to create
> and develop opportunities for open source GIS in Malaysia.
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> We are pleased to see many Universities are rapidly following this
> example (such as University of Girona in Spain). Over the next few
> months we will be building collaborations with key Universities and
> research organisations  worldwide  for the establishment of Open Source
> Geospatial Research Laboratories and Research Centres for development of
> open-source geospatial software technologies, training, expertise and
> building up momentum in Open Source GIS education and research worldwide.
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> If you are interested in building research collaboration in Open Source
> GIS please contact me.
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> Best wishes,
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> Suchith
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