[OSGeo-Discuss] A Small Circle in Asia Contains More Than Half the World's Population – But How many GI Scientists are from here?

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleagues,

For decades high cost properitary GIS reduced the education and entrepreneurship  opportunities in GIS for the economically poor. But now Thanks to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation  and all OSGeo and open education volunteers , these inequalities for access to geospatial software and learning opportunities  is changing fast. It is the efforts of OSGeo volunteers that helped make tools like QGIS  available free to all schools worldwide forever.

Future is shaped by the decisions made by  everyone everyday. Thank you to all OSGeo volunteers for your work that has made possible  Geo education opportunities  accessible  for all . Be our GeoAmbassadors and let  us pledge and work  for open principles in science and education  to eradicate extreme poverty and enable shared prosperity for all.

More details at https://www.slideshare.net/SuchithAnand/the-future-of-geo-is-open

http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/07/the-future-of-geo-is-open/

http://www.ee.co.za/article/open-source-conference-promotes-spatial-literacy.html

http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/07/a-small-circle-in-asia-contains-more-than-half-the-worlds-population-but-how-many-gi-scientists-are-from-here/

Best wishes,

Suchith





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