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<div class="">On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Polimi <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">I want to nominate Mark Iliffe as charter member of OSGeo. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Mark has a lot of experience both as researcher and as a consultant of important organizations, like World Bank.</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">His main activities have been in coordinating mapping in developing countries examining the emergent phenomenon of community mapping and volunteered. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">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)
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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. <br class="">
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">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.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">OSGEO will greatly benefit of the presence of Mark in our community. </span></div>
<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Thanks and best regards, </span></div>
<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Maria </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies" id="NoLP" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font class="">http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies</font></a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing<br class="">
Politecnico di Milano</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" <a href="http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html" id="NoLP" class="">http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html</a>, Board
 of Directors of OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Sol Katz Award 2015</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" id="NoLP" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a></span></div>
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