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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
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baseline;">I am currently working as part of a JISC funded
project, the Geospatial Engagement and Community Outreach
programme (GECO), which is trying to build connections between geo
activities throughout the UK. As part of this work we will be
running a series of events concerned with the relationship between
geospatial information and other areas of interest to the academic
sector and broader public.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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baseline;">Our first GECO event will be a workshop entitled "Open
Source, Geo and Health" (#gecohealth) which will take place at
Edinburgh Napier University on 9th August 2011 and is now
available for booking!</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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baseline;">This event will be looking at the intersections between
open source, geo and health - there are natural connections around
fields of, say, epidemiology but we think there is also much to
explore here around new analysis that is made possible through
processing of geo enabled data. We have several great speakers
already confirmed:</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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baseline;">Jenny Roe and Catharine Ward Thompson from the
OPENspace Research Centre (based at the Edinburgh College of Art
and Heriot-Watt University) will be talking about green space and
mental well being.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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baseline;">Sergiusz Pawlowicz from the Centre for Geospatial
Science at the University of Nottingham witll be speaking about
his work on Participatory Health Surveys. And we hope to have
speakers from Imperial College London talking about Primary care
perspectives on open source GIS.</span><br>
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0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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baseline;">We also have space available in the programme for
contributions on open source approaches to health and geo issues
and would particularly welcome your contributions around any
relevant perspective or idea on the intersection of open source,
geospatial information and health. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">More information on the event can be found on the GECO
blog:</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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baseline;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://geco.blogs.edina.ac.uk/">http://geco.blogs.edina.ac.uk/</a></span><br>
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0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">And you can register here:</span><br>
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0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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baseline;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://open-geo-and-health.eventbrite.com/">http://open-geo-and-health.eventbrite.com/</a></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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baseline;">Please do pass on to relevant contacts or friends with
an interest in these topics and feel free to repost this
information to other sites/blogs/mailing lists you think may be
interested.</span> <br>
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baseline;">Many thanks in advance,</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">Nicola.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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baseline;">Nicola Osborne</span><br>
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0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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baseline;">GECO website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://geco.blogs.edina.ac.uk">http://geco.blogs.edina.ac.uk</a></span><br>
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.edina.ac.uk/">http://www.edina.ac.uk/</a></span><br>
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href="mailto:nicola.osborne@ed.ac.uk">nicola.osborne@ed.ac.uk</a></span><br>
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Edinburgh</span><br>
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