[Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics Group - Upcoming City as Commons conference in Italy in November

Wed Jul 8 04:22:24 PDT 2015

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Charlie,
>
> This is excellent idea. We should aim to submit abstract based on the
> Urban Science thematic ideas and Open City Principles for "City as a
> Commons" conference.
>

I can't fit this in. But it would help move us toward some collaborative
writing. But a warning! It will be a very different conference from
what many on this list normally participate in, I imagine.

*Anyone interested in taking the lead, attending and submitting an abstract*
?

A submission on Open City Geospatial Science Principles (or some topic like
that) would probably fit best for either the:

1) The Urban Commons and Democratic Innovation [1]; or,
2) The 'Collaborative\Sharing Economy' track [2]; or,
3) The 'Social Innovation...' track [3]

[1]
http://www.labgov.it/wordpress/urbancommons/commons-democratic-Innovation/
[2]
http://www.labgov.it/wordpress/urbancommons/collaborative-sharing-economy/
[3]
http://www.labgov.it/wordpress/urbancommons/commons-democratic-Innovation/

> Please take lead to build strong connection between GeoForAll and OSGeo
> and IASC.

I will be doing this over the longer term. I want to have a GeoForAll\OSGeo
presence in the 2017 conference -- including an introduction to open source
GIS workshop there. Such a connection will be beneficial for both
organizations.

Cheers,
Charlie

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Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics Group - Upcoming
City as Commons conference in Italy in November

Hi GeoForAll Urban Science Group -- especially our european colleages,

1) I am sending this to one of our original email lists... I'm not sure who
is on the urbanscience listserv that was established. Should we use that
instead Patrick or Chris?

2) There is a call for abstracts for a conference in Italy in Novemeber on
the City as a Commons [1]. Our work might not fit exactly in this, but for
example, Volunteer Geographic Information for Urban is one example of where
'commons' activity occurs in our work. I encourage people on this list to
look at the call and consider submitting something. What we are trying to
do, in my view, is develop data and technology 'commons' for urban policy
and management.

3) Note, the above is a thematic conference of the broader Interational
Association for the Study of the Commons [2]. In an effort to build our
community, over the next few years, I am hoping to make a strong connection
between GeoForAll and OSGeo and IASC... there are many researchers and
educators who attend IASC conferences (many study natural resource commons
'-- landcover, water, irrigation systems, fisheries) and they need GIS and
many come from developing world contexts. I'm hoping we can plan to have
some GIS workshops at the next global IASC conference in July 2017 in
Utrecht, Netherlands. Let me know if you have any interest in that idea.

Cheers,
Charlie

[1] http://www.labgov.it/urbancommons
[2] http://www.iasc-commons.org/

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