[Board] ICA-OSGeo MoU

Suchith Anand Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
Wed Sep 26 03:44:23 PDT 2012


Jeff,

Many thanks and i am sure more  universities across Africa will follow the excellent example of University of Pretoria  so that more students in Africa  get opportunity to study geospatial science in the future.

Best wishes,

Suchith


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From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
Sent: 25 September 2012 15:36
To: osgeo-board List
Subject: Re: [Board] ICA-OSGeo MoU

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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