[OSGeo-Edu] [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

Mon Sep 23 00:56:14 PDT 2013

Thuy,

Thank you for presenting our network  at Asian Geospatial Forum. This is excellent opportunity to inform other colleagues in the region on our initiative. Conferences and events are excellent opportunities to spread the message and get more universities involved. 

Suchith

PS:  Could i also request all of you to put atleast one slide about our education initiative in any presentation you are giving. 

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From: TUONG THUY VU [Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 4:06 AM
To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org; edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org; ica-opensource at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

Dear All,
Glad to learn the great progress from FOSS4G 2013. It's pity that I
couldn't attend due to other commitments in Malaysia.
Just for your information, I will be presenting OSGEOLive and ICA-OSGEO
lab network at Asian Geospatial Forum this Friday. Hope to raise more
awareness and interest to join our lab networks from Asian region.
Anne, Suchith, Venka, Maning and other OSGEO players in Asia, please work
together to grow the network in this region.

Cheers,
Thuy

--
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu, MIEEE
Associate Professor
Open-Source Geospatial Research Lab
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus

Course Director for MSc Geospatial Science for Development Management

On 9/23/13 6:37 AM, "Suchith Anand" <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>FOSS4G 2013 has been a great success (28 Workshops, 180 Presentations.,
>833 delegates  ) thanks to the countless hours of efforts put in by our
>dedicated volunteers. Special thanks to our team members Abi, Addy,
>Antony, Barend, Barry, Claire, Franz-Josef, Jeremy, Jo, IanH, IanE, Mark,
>Matt, Rollo and Steven who not only made FOSS4G 2013
>http://2013.foss4g.org/about-foss4g/committee/  a great success  but also
>has given firm foundation for the "Geo for All" Education initiative .
>We also launched OSGeo Live 7.0 at FOSS4G 2013 in  Nottingham. Thanks to
>the selfless efforts and dedication of hundreds of volunteers worldwide
>that help make this excellent resource possible for the benefit of the
>wider community . Details at http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html  Having
>free and open GI software is key for making possible for students in
>developing and poor countries  to be also able to get geospatial
>education (without the need for high cost  proprietary GI software ) and
>OSGeo Live is cen
> tral to our education efforts. Our Education Team will now with full
>dedication and focus will carry on the "Geo for All" initiative to all
>across the world. Our key aim is to make it possible for students in
>developing and poor countries  to be also able to get geospatial
>education. By 2015, we will  have 50 Open Source Geospatial Labs
>established in universities in Africa alone and they will all be
>teaching GIS courses to hundreds of students. We also will be starting
>work on "Train the Trainer" GIS program for school teachers all over the
>world.
>
>We also launched our latest ICA-OSGeo research lab in Switzerland at  ETH
>Zurich at FOSS4G 2013 . The Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH
>Zurich is part is part of the Institute of Cartography and
>Geoinformation, chair of Cartography . Details at
>http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/karto/index_EN
>The preceding Institute of Cartography was founded in 1925 by Professor
>Eduard Imhof, one of the main founders of modern academic cartography. It
>is therefore the oldest university institute in cartography world-wide.
>In 2011, with the establishment of the new chair of Geoinformation
>Engineering, the scope of activities of the institute was expanded and
>its name was adapted. In cartography, the institute strives to maintain
>its leading position in topographic cartography (relief representation),
>thematic cartography, and atlas cartography (school atlases, national
>atlases) by exploiting and further developing cartographic knowledge and
>adapting it to new interactive technologies and application domains.
>Geoinformation Engineering aims at analyzing, representing, modelling,
>and visualizing spatio-temporal decision processes and integrates such
>models in mobile geoinformation services and spatial information
>technologies.It also aims to provide support for increasing the number
>and qua
> lity of open source teaching and training materials for Cartography and
>GIS. As a proud member of the ICA-OSGeo Network , the ETH Zurich OSGL is
>focusing on Education, Open Geodata and on Cartographic and Geospatial
>Research. The lab website at http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html
>
>Thanks to the momentum build by FOSS4G 2013, we have got many new
>applications from  universities in this week alone for establishing
>research labs, so we are well in track to keep bringing investment for
>staff and infrastructure to  establish over 100 research labs in
>universities world wide by Sep 2014 (the time of the next  FOSS4G
>conference ).  We  will be  now working to setup a brand new website for
>our rapidly  expanding education initiative and take this to the next
>level.
>
>Once again many thanks to all of you who helped for making FOSS4G 2013 a
>great success. Without all of your help, we would not have been able to
>make this possible. Also thanks to all volunteers who made and kept their
>pledges at FOSS4G 2013  http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/pledge/
>
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Suchith (on behalf of "Geo for All" Team of FOSS4G 2013
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