[Board] UN products

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Mon Oct 5 09:23:47 PDT 2015


Hi Suchith, Maria, all,

I have been speaking directly with Kyoung-Soo Eom since Seoul, the chief 
of the UN Geospatial Information Section.  As you know the Board met 
with the UN GIS team in Seoul, and there was some great discussions. 
Because of the long process involved in an MoU at the UN, it was 
suggested by Mr. Eom that we bypass that long process and instead 
exchange official letters, which I believe is a great idea, to formalize 
our relationship.  Mr. Eom has also invited OSGeo to be part of a 
working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters, as a 
first step.  Of course I'll be bringing up to speed all of the OSGeo 
board on this, by discussing these possible steps at our first meeting 
next week on 15 October.  But I believe this is wonderful momentum with 
the UN and OSGeo.  I must give credit to Sanghee to bring the two teams 
to the same table, during the chaos of running his FOSS4G Seoul - very 
forward thinking of him.

Maria: I am also part of the "UN products" team.

Talk soon,

-jeff



On 2015-10-05 9:46 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> btw is there any MoU planned with UN to futher expand collaborations?
>   Any ideas/  discussions at UN focussed session at FOSS4G Seoul?
>
> Also are there any plans for UN focussed session at FOSS4G Bonn?
>
> Suchith
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> *To:* Maria Antonia Brovelli
> *Cc:* jody.garnett at how2map.com; anitagraser at gmx.at; board at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Board] UN products
>
> Got the same request.
>
> Looks like a newsletter list to disseminate their news.
>
> Looking forward for working with UN.
>
> Maxi
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> 2015-10-04 16:54 GMT+02:00 Maria Antonia Brovelli
> <maria.brovelli at polimi.it <mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>>:
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>     Dear Board Members (and friends)
>
>     I was asked, , as a member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>     and a friend of UN Geospatial Information Sectio, by Kyoung-Soo Eom,
>     Chief Geospatial Information Section of UN, if I want to receive
>     weekly UNGIS new public map products.
>
>     Obviously I'm interested. I think that someone else of OSGeo was
>     also contacted.
>
>     Do you have any information about who?
>
>     In case, after having seen which are and how many are these
>     products, we can decide how to use/share them (possibly with also
>     the other members contacted, in such a way to minimize the time
>     required to manage these data and info).
>
>     Thanks! Best.
>
>     Maria
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>     Best regards, Kyoung-Soo Eom
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