[Ica-osgeo-labs] Pre-AAG Workshop on "Open GIS: New Opportunities for Research and Education, " April 7, 2014

[Suchith Anand]

Thanks Helena.

For those of you who are new to our initiative please find attached a short article written by Helena and Charlie in  GIM International so you get the bigger picture.

We are also aiming for creating training materials for educators. It was with this aim that the ELOGeo initiative was launched in 2010. The aim was to provide a web-based infrastructure and database repository to support and encourage the educational transfer of knowledge and training. The focus is on the effective use of open geospatial services through sharing and co-production of methodologies, tools and educational curricula and materials. Current courses target the researchers, non-geospatial experts and general public who want to use open data, standards and tools. The framework can be accessed at http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk  

OSGeo Live is central to our education efforts.  Our key aim is to make it possible for poor students  to be also able to get geospatial education (high cost proprietary GIS is the biggest limiting factor for widening geospatial education).  We also will be starting work on "Train the Trainer" GIS program for school teachers all over the world and looking forward to collaboration with all of you.

There are already some good examples on this from colleagues in our network  . We have been working with colleagues in gvSIG Batoví initiative in Uruguay (Especially with Sergio Lara in MTOP). We are now doing translation (Spanish-English) with the help of volunteers for the educational content translation and structuring for gvSIG Batoví initiative in Uruguay (will make it available through ELOGeo) , so that it benefits wider community worldwide. The aim of gvSIG Batoví is to develop a powerful educational tool that enables primary and secondary education students to understand space, to easily interpret maps and to learn free technologies as part of the wider CEIBAL Initiative  http://www.ceibal.org.uy/  

More details are at

http://www.gvsig.org/web/home/projects/gvsig-educa  

http://www.sensysmag.com/resources/toolbox/28182-gvsig-educa-offers-desktop-open-source-gis-for-education.html  

The video link (with English translation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo    is useful to get basic information on the wider CEIBAL initiative.


We have also now launched "Geo for All" Education mission . Our colleagues at the University of Southampton are now working on the website etc. You can get some idea of our work at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/   

We are looking forward to strong participation from  universities worldwide for this initiative and we are keen to make sure that more universities  make use of opportunities in  Open Source Geospatial for their research and education.

To give you an example from South America,  our First ICA-OSGeo lab in Brazil was established just over a year back but in June 2013, Brazil colleagues organised the first meeting of the ICA-OSGeo Labs in Brazil  at São Paulo  and now we have many universities in Brazil joining us.

http://mundogeoconnect.com/2013/grade/encontros-paralelos/webinar-ica-osgeo-18-de-junho/   

The slides in Portuguese are at http://www.mundogeoconnect.com/2013/arquivos/palestras/18_jun-a-silvana_camboim.pdf   


Please join our mailling list at http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs   so you can updated on the latest developments. We also have a monthly telemeeting , so please join that so we can plan future research collaborations. For example, earlier this week Prof. Maria Brovelli (Italy) led a COST bid submission with participation from universities in  8 different countries. We are hoping the bid will be successful, so we can expand our EU research collaborations.

I know in US, Helena, Phil, Charlie are working on NSF bid and with more US universities, there will be more momentum for building up research collaborations. 

Horizon 2020 http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm    is a good opportunity (the first call will be out in Jan 2014)  for building International research collaborations and it will be good to plan ideas for joint projects for this. Also it will be good if you all can attend our monthly telemeetings. It is a good opportunity to build ideas for future research collaborations. Last month's telemeeting summary at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Network_2013-09-05 

Serge, Dan - many thanks again for taking this initiative. Phil Davies has already confirmed that he will participate. We will have an overview presentation of the ICA-OSGeo Lab network at the event by one of our colleagues . Countrywise USA is now our biggest growth and i am confident that by the time of the workshop, we will have over 20 universities in USA as part of our network. 

I am cciing Prof Georg Gartner (ICA President) who will also be happy to provide any support needed. We look forward to work with you.

Best wishes,

Suchith

PS: It might be good if you can arrange a 2 hour telemeeting facility sometime during the Pre-AAG Workshop. I can speak with Phil (he has been kindly hosting our monthly telemeetings) and get this arranged as then those of us who cannot attend personally can also contribute suggestions/ideas at the workshop.

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From: Helena Mitasova [mailto:hmitaso at ncsu.edu] 
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Subject: Re: Pre-AAG Workshop on "Open GIS: New Opportunities for Research and Education," April 7, 2014

Serge, Dan,

Thank you very much for for the invitation, I did not plan to come to AAG, but I am wondering whether there will be anybody from our rapidly expanding ICA-OSGeo network represented to provide update on the current state of the initiative and perhaps show some examples of collaborations that we have already in place. The workshop sounds really interesting so I will check my schedule and get back to you if I can come.

For those on this list who have not yet heard about the network, you can learn more here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives
and if you already have an established open source geospatial research and/or education and are interested to join, please let us know, new members are welcome!

Best regards,

Helena

Helena Mitasova
Associate Professor
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
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On Sep 25, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Daniel Sui wrote:

> Dear all:
> 
>  You are cordially invited to attend  a pre-AAG workshop on "Open GIS: New Opportunities for Research and Education" next year in Tampa, FL.   Next year's AAG meeting is April 8-12, 2014.  Our workshop will be one full day on April 7, 2014, which means you need to arrive in Tampa, no later than April 6, 2014. 
> 
>  The primary goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia, industry, and government agencies to discuss the new opportunities and set the agenda  for Open GIS research and education in light of new advances during the past five years.  An edited volume is planned based upon the talks given at this workshop. 
> 
>  
>  We are still working on the logistic details for the workshop.  At this point, we just need a confirmation on two items: 1). whether you are interested in attending the pre-AAG Open GIS workshop; 2). In case you are unable to attend the pre-AAG workshop, but still attend the AAG meeting, please let us whether you are interested in getting involved in a panel (or paper session) devoted to open GIS during the 2014 AAG meeting.  Of course, you are more than welcome to attend the pre-AAG workshop and serve on the open GIS panel.
> 
>  
> Please reply by Oct. 1, 2013 if you can. Thanks!    More details will follow soon. 
> 
> 
>  
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  
>  Sergio (Serge) Rey - Arizona State University
> 
>  Daniel Sui - The Ohio State University
> 


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