[OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Mark Iliffe as OSGeo Charter Member

[Paolo Corti]

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On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Serena Coetzee <serenacoetzee at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 from (South) Africa
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> On 27 Aug 2017, at 09:11, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
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> +1
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> Mark has also contributed to the success of FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham.
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> Best wishes,
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> Suchith
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> From: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Andy Anderson
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> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Mark Iliffe as OSGeo Charter
> Member
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> I second the nomination.
>
> — Andy
>
> On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Polimi
> <maria.brovelli at polimi.it<mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>> wrote:
>
> I want to nominate Mark Iliffe as charter member of OSGeo.
>
> Mark has a lot of experience both as researcher and as a consultant of
> important organizations, like World Bank.
> His main activities have been in coordinating mapping in developing
> countries examining the emergent phenomenon of community mapping and
> volunteered.
>
> Das Ramani Huria, one of the project which has been seeing him involved as a
> main actor, is considered as a best practice for developing (and probably
> could also be for developed) countries.
>
> He is also invited delegate to the United Nations Committee of Experts on
> Global Geospatial Information Management (UN GGIM) as an expert on
> Volunteered Geographic Information and geography in emerging countries.
>
> He organised the 2013 FOSS4G Conference as a member of the local organising
> committee and is one of the two chairs of FOSS4G 2018 in Dar Es Salaam.
>
> OSGEO will greatly benefit of the presence of Mark in our community.
> Thanks and best regards,
> Maria
>
> Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:
> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies
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