[Ica-osgeo-labs] Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges

[Suchith Anand]

Dear All,

For the Geospatial World Forum 2014 , there will be a special session on Capacity Building that Prof. Dr. Josef Strobl  is chairing. Detaoils at http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2014/preconf_capacity.asp
It is a good opportunity to share ideas on "Geo for All" with the wider community. I would like to thank Josef and the GWF organisers for inviting and giving this opportunity for us.

One of the countries where we are seeing amazing developments is Brazil .Last year , the first meeting of the ICA-OSGeo Labs in Brazil (thanks to Silvana and Arlette) was held at São Paulo , parallel to  Connect Latin America 2013. 

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

In May 2014, there will be a Brazilian NSDI theme event in  Brasília  which i will attend and jointly present with Silviana about "Geo for All" initiative. I understand that there will be around 400 participants from government and universities in Brazil for this event, so an excellent opportunity to build more long term research and teaching collaborations. 

Tomorrow (24th Feb) , we will have the first meeting of our Advisory Board and i am looking forward to discuss more ideas for expanding our initiative. Will keep you all updated.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 2:48 PM
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Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges

Hi All,

“Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges”  conference is being held at Warsaw on 11th March 2014. It will be organised by the Centre for Open Science, which is a part of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw. It will benefit from the results of an OECD workshop on open science, which will be held on the previous day and hosted by the Polish Ministry of Science. Details at https://conference2014.ceon.pl

I will be presenting about our “Geo for All” network for the conference and it will be good opportunity to build future research collaborations. I will aim to promote the excellent work you all are doing . "Geo for All" network is well positioned to attract the opportunities in Open Science globally and for OSGIS 2014 (which is being planned at Nottingham which we will be sending the CfP later this month), we will also aim to have a parallel "Open Science conference" to build synergies with the wider Open Science community.

Suchith


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