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

Wed Feb 25 06:09:29 PST 2015

Ok, *if we as a community want to try and go for an US NSF Research
Coordination Network (RCN) grant, I think this is the NSF program we should
target: **Geography and Spatial Sciences Program (GSS)*.

See [1].

It lists RCN as one of its funding streams. It's listed goals are here:

   - To promote scientific research in geography and the spatial sciences
   that advances theory and basic understanding and that addresses the
   challenges facing society.
   - To promote the integration of geographers and spatial scientists in
   interdisciplinary research.
   - To promote education and training of geographers and spatial
   scientists in order to enhance the capabilities of current and future
   generations of researchers.
   - To promote the development and use of scientific methods and tools for
   geographic research.

Does anyone on this list know any of the program officers listed in the
contacts of the link below [1]?

What I'd like to do is try and outline a draft letter to them sketching out
our RCN ideas and seeing if they would be interested in entertaining an RCN
proposal from us. If I take the lead on this and work on an outline (I have
time right now), can I solicit some help on some sections? I think I can
write about our network and bring in theoretical on the idea of global
"commons based peer production" networks, which is what we are. I can
sketch out the educational idea I have proposed related to flipped, service
learning, team based learning and blended learning with the network idea
and some kind of coordinated webinars, recorded lectures, etc. While I am a
public administration faculty with GIS and IT background, what I don't have
is experience on a set of core application areas or state of the art on
Urban Science/City Analytics. I'll need help on that.

*Are you all game if I forge ahead on trying to outline this?*

While I'm a big proponent of openness, I don't think we want to use a wiki
page for a grant proposal, though. *I'd need to know who wants to be
closely associated with this* (contact me off-line) and we try to use
Google Docs or something that can be more controlled.

Also, if anyone knows of another grant opportunity outside of the US that
we can use the same ideas or link, let me know.

Cheers,

Charlie

[1] http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505034

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <
patrick.hogan at nasa.gov> wrote:

>  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
>
>  650.604.5656 (office)
>
>  650.269.2788 (cell)
>
>
>
> *From:* ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Charles Schweik
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:36 AM
> *To:* Suchith Anand
> *Cc:* Stepanov Alexander; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Ingo Simonis;
> Anthony Beck; Chris Pettit; Gabor Remetey; Doreen Boyd; Chandola, Varun;
> Jim Miller (miller at ittc.ku.edu); Giuseppe Conti; MELICK Brandt
> *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> 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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>
>
> --
>
> Charlie Schweik
>
> Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>
> Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
> Administration
>
>
>
> Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
>
> Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/
>
>
> Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press,
> 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545
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-- 
Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
Administration

Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/

Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012)
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