[Board] Letter of suppost for a research project

[Angelos Tzotsos]

The motion passed and the letter has been signed and submitted.

On 2/13/24 22:33, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There is a motion to approve this request on Loomio:
> https://www.loomio.com/d/ZX5OCNIF/letter-of-support-for-climeshed-research-project/1 
>
>
> Please vote.
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On 2/11/24 23:21, Cannata Massimiliano via Board wrote:
>> Dear Board members,
>>
>> I'm writing you this mail to ask a letter of support from OSGeo for 
>> an international project I'm submitting to the Belmont Forum by 
>> 29.02.2024.
>>
>>
>> The project, named CLIMESHED, aims at Empowering Disadvantaged 
>> Communities with Sustainable Water Monitoring and Data Exploitation 
>> for Climate Change by developing an Open Source platform to collect, 
>> manage, process and present environmental data.
>>
>>
>> The proposed platform to be developed will be extensively based on 
>> FOSS4G (istSOS, pyGeoapi, geoPandas, etc.) and OGC standards 
>> (SensorThingsAPI, OGC API Features, WaterML, GeoParquet, etc.).
>>
>>
>> Here a short summary: This project addresses the challenges faced by 
>> disadvantaged communities of middle/low-income countries/regions in 
>> disposing of sustainable, FAIR, completed, updated and reliable data 
>> monitoring and distribution systems on local water quality and 
>> quantity. This hinders the understanding, planning and evaluation of 
>> mitigation actions of negative impacts of climate change on 
>> ecosystems and human health. We propose to experiment and demonstrate 
>> a meshed Open Source solution combining authoritative, low-cost and 
>> citizen-science approaches rooted in Responsible Research Innovation 
>> (RRI) and open science principles.
>>
>>
>> Looking forward for any feedback or request.
>>
>>
>> Best regard,
>>
>> Maxi
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Massimiliano Cannata
>>
>> Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica
>>
>> Responsabile settore Geomatica
>>
>>
>> Istituto scienze della Terra
>>
>> Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design
>>
>> Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana
>>
>> Campus Mendrisio, Via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15
>>
>> CH – 6850 Mendrisio
>>
>> Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14
>>
>> Fax +41 (0)58 666 62 09
>>
>> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch<mailto:massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
>>
>> www.supsi.ch/ist<http://www.supsi.ch/ist>
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos