[OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Welcoming Tanzania colleagues for expanding STEM Education ideas

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Karoli,

Welcome to GeoForAll and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Through OSGeo ,you are now part of the world’s largest Geospatial ecosystem , so we welcome you to the huge network of our partners and collaborators globally from governments, industry , universities, NGOs worldwide that you can connect to expand your ideas rapidly. Open innovation is key in driving Digital Economy opportunities and we are determined to make sure that everyone benefits. We believe in empowering people with spatial decision making tools to help build a better society for all of humanity.

For strategies for sustain STEM(GIS Education) in Tanzania , I suggest you start making use of the resources we have already for expanding your training programs from school to university level.

GeoForAll's mission is to make geospatial education opportunities open to all and to make sure we all work together to create global citizens contributing to the betterment of humanity. Caring and Sharing are important values that all students should learn . Details of why this is important at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/sharing-is-caring-why-openness-is-key-for-true-empowerment-and-sustainability/


For the freely available training materials visit http://www.geoforall.org/training/



For those of your students and colleagues wishing to learn GIS, there are  free online materials produced by GeoForAll colleagues at GeoAcademy. Thier  FOSS4G Academy Curriculum with comprehensive QGIS tutorials are at http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/


Feel free to share them with all. Download QGIS from http://qgis.org/en/site/           (there is also lot of documentation for learning at http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/index.html



I would also like to share some other resources which will be ueful for you for expanding your education programs. Please make use of OSGeo-Live for your program needs and give away as many DVDs or USBs with the software as you wish to your students. So students from now not only learn but get the software and fully empowered . This is a very useful resource for running training programs etc. DVDs are easy and low cost to replicate, so you can print thousands of DVDs with all the free and open source Geo software and have them distributed to your colleagues and students as you wish. OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine , that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. Details at http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html


Contents and quick start guides of 50+ tools available from desktop GIS to webmapping to mobile at http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html


http://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/index.html#/        (Quick start presentation to give you an overview).


Access to quality education is everyone's birthright and we now have the opportunity to make this happen. The cost of hardware is coming down (and will keep coming down), internet access is increasing , so the only big hurdle is the high  cost of software .

Please be our GeoAmbassadors and share these ideas with all.


Open principles in education (open educational resources, free and open software, open data, open standards etc) are key for  true empowerment of staff and students globally and making education and opportunities accessible to all . We look forward to working and building collaborations with all interested in this education mission. Access to quality education and opportunities is key for getting rid of extreme poverty and enabling broadly shared prosperity for all.

I am sure other colleagues will be able to provide more information on your queries. I am ccing our OSGeo discuss colleagues as FOSS4G 2018 in Tanzania is a great opportunity to build more synergies in our education efforts. We are  looking forward to work with you  on this.

Best wishes,

Suchith



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From: karoli fabian <karoli at greenae.org>
Sent: 20 February 2017 8:13 AM
To: Anand Suchith; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [Geo4All] Welcoming Tanzania colleagues for expanding STEM Education ideas

Hello GeoForAll


Let me introduce myself, I am Young geoscientist, graduate at university of Dar es Salaam (BSc with Geology, 2014),Currently working as GIS analyst and farm technologist at green agriculture and environment ltd, collecting and analyses all GIS data for the case of monitoring and managing crops at the farm.

At a STEM Education, I was GIS tutor training students the application of drone in GIS and how the GIS can solve our community problem.

I real thanks God and dr.lwidiko for this great network I have now and hopefully will going expend years to come.

I have few staffs need to share with you which will boost us in this initiative.

1.      strategies for sustain STEAM(GIS Education) in Tanzania

Ø  How can you contribute in training the tutor like me(through online training)

Ø  ………………….. (can anyone add more)



2.      Evaluation for the success of GIS Education

Ø  How can we have the database of new user of GIS trained by us.

Ø  How can we support the brilliant GIS project which will solve the community problems in Tanzania.



Thanks I welcome contribution.


Best Regards
Karoli fabian
GIS/Database Specialist/Farm technology Analyst
Green Agriculture and Environment Ltd
karoli at greenae.org
Face book; Karoli Emmanuel Fabian
LinkedIn; karoli Fabian
+255653663328

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 12:45 AM
To: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Welcoming Tanzania colleagues for expanding STEM Education ideas

GeoForAll Colleagues,

I would like to welcome Karoli Fabian, Lwidiko Edward to GeoForAll and looking forward to expand these STEM Education ideas using Open Principles globally. I had a great meeting with them earlier today.

Some videos of this kindly send by Lwidiko and team below

Summary of the bootcamp at https://youtu.be/yKIwgy656VA



Mapping Class at  https://youtu.be/v2iHAiYoxf0


More details at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/02/stem-education-using-geo-open-principles/


I will share this information at the EuroGeo2017 in Amsterdam later next week and start building global collaborations in GeoSTEM education for everyone .FOSS4G-2018 event [1] will be held at the Julius Nyerere International Conference Centre, Dar-es-Salaam and run from Monday 27th August through to Sunday 2nd September, 2018 and is a great opportunity to expand ideas.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/node/1752











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