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

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Sergio,

That is excellent. We definitely want to get your expertise and inputs for the "Train the trainer" GIS program for school teachers. As you know , thanks to some volunteers we are now translating gvSIG Batovi documentation from Spanish-English and will make it available in ELOGeo to benifit other GIS educators . Once the documents are available in English more people will benefit from your excellent work.

OSGeo Live will be important part of our Training program. I will invite Angelos, Astrid and other interested members from the OSGeo Live community to join our next monthly  ICA-OSGeo labs telemeeting (I had been busy catching up with many workloads after FOSS4G - so will send the meeting time etc in Oct beginning)  where we will be discussing more ideas and plans to take this forward.

Our new website of the ICA-OSGeo labs initiative "Geo4All.org" will be active in one month (colleagues from University of Southampton are working on it), and having the new website is important so we  build up momentum for our education efforts. Thanks again for your support and contribution.

Suchith


-----Original Message-----
From: Sergio Acosta y Lara [mailto:sacosta at dntopografia.gub.uy] 
Sent: 25 September 2013 14:01
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org; edu discuss; ica-opensource at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

Hi Suchith. I will like to have some feedback from that "Train the Trainer" GIS program for school teachers as I'll probably be organizing a workshop on gvSIG Batoví for teachers' trainers soon and I would like to be in harmony with it.
Regards,

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Sección Sistemas de Información Geográfica Dirección Nacional de Topografía Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY

----- Mensaje original -----
De: "Suchith Anand" <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Para: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org, discuss at lists.osgeo.org, "edu discuss" <edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, ica-opensource at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Enviados: Domingo, 22 de Septiembre 2013 19:37:57
Asunto: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

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 Liv  e 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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