[Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics - NEW IDEA: IBM Partner

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Charlie and Sasha ,
We should involve everyone we can. This is probably the area, due to the common interest and identical needs, where the most ‘collective’ activity can take place. Additionally, it’s also the area where the positive results of this collective effort can be significantly experienced. Cities are in dire need. Here is just one example of a very wealthy city but in utter disrepair and needing to be a lot smarter about managing infrastructure. They are not alone.
http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

We should involve universities and essentially have them take the lead with us supporting ‘them’ however we can.

Master programme in Sustainable Cities at Aalborg University Copenhagen http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/

Climate Adaptation Guidebook for Municipalities
http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

Recommend we establish a formal letter that describes our purpose, includes our signatures and is extended to organizations and institutions offering our support as well as inviting them to participate.

-Patrick
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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charles Schweik
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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics - NEW IDEA

One other thing on this thread folks - my colleague Sasha reminded me of this:
Should we consider trying  to partner with IBM (always a supporter of open source I think)?

See http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/

Cheers,
Charlie

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu<mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>> wrote:
Hi Urban Science working group:

1) Great to see the edits/additions on the wiki [1]. Keep them coming.

2) I have an idea. (sorry for a long note, but I don't want to add this to the wiki, at least yet).

I have added my colleague, Alexander 'Sasha' Stepanov to this email thread. He is the 'GIS Architect' for our university campus. Sasha and I have had an idea of offering a different type of advanced GIS course for students that follows new pedagogies: "flipped" (uses online open access information read outside of class), team-based learning, and service learning.

Sasha's enterprise GIS for our campus is amazing. He has been emphasizing to me that it is a "small city" and there is an opportunity for students to do projects working with him on different "city management" GIS applications. For example, last semester we had two students do campus GIS projects on Tree Management, and also Recycling Management. (this was using ESRI technologies).

What I am wondering is how many others on this thread are at universities that are using GIS to manage their campuses.

If there are some, I wonder about the idea of an educational grant proposal to support our network that would:

1) Establish "City Analytics" systems to support our campuses;
2) Develop parallel "flipped, Team Based learning, Service learning" classes run at the same time/semester across a network of campuses;
3) Include some webinars that all our classes would attend;
4) Build together a MOOC with open educational material that we would all use and share in these courses.
5) We could test the learning of people just doing the MOOC versus the MOOC and service learning as a research question.

Reactions? Anyone working at a university campus who would be interested in these ideas?

Charlie

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics



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