<div dir="ltr">+1 for me too.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-08-26 22:36 GMT+02:00 Polimi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:'.SF UI Text';color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'.SFUIText';font-size:17pt">I'm honored of nominating Msilikale  Msilanga as OSGeo Charter Member.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:'.SF UI Text';color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'.SFUIText';font-size:17pt">He is consulting the World Bank on Transportation and ICT by collecting in Tanzania geospatial information on transportation,  education, and public facilities and by training the government on Open Data. He has a huge experience in community based projects (using FOSS) for flooding resilience in informal settlements. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:'.SF UI Text';color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'.SFUIText';font-size:17pt">He has been working with the local community since 2011 helping them to understand how to use the mapping equipment for collaborative projects.  </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:'.SF UI Text';color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'.SFUIText';font-size:17pt">After the experience in Tanzania, he also helped the creation of the first community mapping in Mozambique. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:'.SF UI Text';color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'.SFUIText';font-size:17pt">Moreover, Msilikale is one of the two chairs of FOSS4G 2018 in Dar Er Salaam. I believe that his experience on collaborative mapping is fundamental for our OSGeo Community.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:'.SF UI Text';color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'.SFUIText';font-size:17pt">Many thanks and best regards,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:'.SF UI Text';color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'.SFUIText';font-size:17pt">Maria </span></p><br><div><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies" id="m_-3089396813808454821NoLP" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.mdpi.com/journal/<wbr>ijgi/special_issues/<wbr>Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_<wbr>Studies</font></a></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">------------------------------<wbr>----------------------</b></p></div><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli</b></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing<br>Politecnico di Milano</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" <a href="http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html" id="m_-3089396813808454821NoLP" target="_blank">http://www2.<wbr>isprs.org/commissions/comm4/<wbr>wg4.html</a>, Board of Directors of OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Sol Katz Award 2015</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tel. <a href="tel:+39%2002%202399%206242" value="+390223996242" target="_blank">+39-02-23996242</a> - Mob. <a href="tel:+39%20328%20002%203867" value="+393280023867" target="_blank">+39-328-0023867</a>,  <a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" id="m_-3089396813808454821NoLP" target="_blank">maria.<wbr>brovelli@polimi.it</a></span></p></div></div><div><div id="m_-3089396813808454821Signature"><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="margin:0px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font><font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><br></p></font></font></span></div></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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