[OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies - latest updates

Fri Sep 9 19:48:45 PDT 2016

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the updates and great to see the meeting agenda. Please do email the meeting summary and few photos for our newsletter after the event.

I wont be able to attend the ICA commission meetings at Autocarto as i have been invited for participating in panel session at the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) [1] Summit 2016 in New York and other meetings that week. The GODAN Summit http://summit.godan.info/ seeks to advance the agenda of open data for agriculture and nutrition.The Summit will bring together world leaders and decision makers in - public, private and non-profit united around a collaboration on agriculture and nutrition data openness. The Summit goals are to illustrate the opening, the use, and the importance of agriculture and nutrition data.  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, senior level government staff from governments worldwide are all attending this summit and this is a good opportunity to share Geo4All ideas . GODAN has high level governmental support (G7, United Nations, FAO) and strong collaborations in place with governments worldwide so it is important that we have synergies with GODAN and  work together to expand collaborations.

Wish you all productive commission meetings at AutoCarto and give my regards to all colleagues.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] http://www.godan.info/

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From: Finn, Michael <mfinn at usgs.gov>
Sent: 09 September 2016 10:04 PM
To: Anand Suchith
Cc: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies - latest updates

Thank you Suchith for this update and congratulations to Silvana.

I have been out of the office for six weeks and am getting caught up.

Our ICA Commission workshop will be held next Wednesday, 14 September, 2016.

The webpage you linked is correct; however it is a slight abbreviated version of the program. Allow me to attach the more complete program to this message for additional accuracy and clarity. Further, if you feel you should have made plans to attend the workshop and the AutoCarto 2016 research symposium but did not, it just might not be too late.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Mike Finn

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear all,

The latest details  of Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies organised by the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies at AutoCarto 2016, USA   is now at  http://www.unm.edu/~sfreunds/autocarto2016/Open_Source_Geospatial.html

Thanks to Mike Finn and Silvana Comboim for their leadership.

It is my great pleasure to introduce Prof. Silvana Philippi Camboim as our GeoAmbassador.  I first met Silvana when she visited me at the University of Nottingham during her UK visit few years back. It was then we discussed initial ideas to establish the first Open Source Geospatial lab in South America [1] and expand our collaborations.  In May 2014, i participated in the NSDI conference and meetings in Brasília, Brazil  . It was also a good opportunity for me to see the amazing work Silvana and her colleagues are doing during that visit . I see the work that Silvana is doing in Brazil having a great momentum for our global activities of “Geo for All” mission. Her dedication and focus for expanding geoeducation opportunities in Brazil and globally has always inspired me.

Silvana is a true global citizen who has travelled around the world working for expanding opportunities for geospatial education for all. It is great pleasure that Silvana has succeeded me as the Chair of the ICA Commission on Geospatial Technologies. I had the pleasure to work closely with Silvana during my time as chair of the commission and I strongly believe that Silvana will build upon the work that we have done and take this to higher level.

Details at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/08/geoambassador-of-the-month-prof-silvana-philippi-camboim/

Silvana will be delivering keynote on “Experiences on How Openness Can Help to Reduce Inequality” and also chair the Open Discussion on “Future Directions: Thinking About the Road Ahead”.

We are looking forward to building  strong research and teaching collaborations  worldwide in Open Geospatial Science [2]. We are proud to honour Silvana as our GeoAmbassodor and we are extremely grateful for her contributions to Geo for All.

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand

http://www.geoforall.org/

Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science

[1] http://www.labgeolivre.ufpr.br/?lang=en

[2] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/06/open-consultation-on-the-vision-2030-for-open-geospatial-science/

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