[OSGeo-Discuss] "Geo for All" Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 2 - September 2015

[Suchith Anand]

Many thanks to Nikos and all for their efforts and contributions  for the second edition of our newsletter. It is now available to download at http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/<http://www.geoforall.org/>

We would like to invite articles from Industry , Universities/Education, Startups, NGOs, Governments on examples of how Open Geospatial Software and Open Data is empowering them and created many new opportunities for "Geo for All" newsletters.


* Examples of  Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Geospatial Industry
* Examples of  Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Startups
* Examples of  Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Universities/Education
* Examples of  Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering  and creating new opportunities for Government organisations
* Examples of  Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for NGOs

We are esp. interested to hear from government organisations/regional/local authorities on  how Open source GIS software helped the local authorities and various government departments in reducing huge annual licence fee costs for proprietary  software and the taxpayers as a whole benifitted from cost efficiencies,  reduce the cost of lock-in to suppliers and products. Now imagine the costs for  not just one year but in the future 5, 10 , 25 years. The savings will be billions of dollars of taxpayers money globally which can be invested by governments in  education, healthcare etc [1]

So please do send examples of how Open Source Geospatial and Open Data is empowering and creating new opportunities from Geospatial Industry, Startups, Education, NGOs, Government organisations to our chief editor of "Geo for All" newsletter -Dr. Nikos Lambrinos, Dept. of Primary Education Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (  Email - labrinos at eled.auth.gr<http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs> )

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-August/001993.html

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From: labrinos at eled.auth.gr [labrinos at eled.auth.gr]
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 6:37 AM
To: 'Suchith Anand'
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Subject: Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 2 - September 2015


Dear all,

The new issue of our Newsletter is ready for downloading from our website (http://www.geoforall.org/).

If you have any comments please don’t hesitate to email me.

Also, if you have any news, information or anything that you want to share with the wider community please send it to me (Chief Editor: labrinos at eled.auth.gr<mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr>)

Thank you very much

Nikos

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Dr. Nikos Lambrinos

Associate Professor

Dept. of Primary Education

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki

Greece, GR-54124

Tel. +30 2310 991201

Email: labrinos at eled.auth.gr

Web pages: http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/

                    http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/

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