[Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/Inputs for expanding "Geo for All" to School education and more collaborations with Industry, Government etc

Thu Jul 9 03:27:21 PDT 2015

Hi all,

In my opinion, if we (the Universities) establish a lab then we need schools
and industry/government to implement what we do.
If a school/industry/government does something which corresponds to Geo for
All aims then they need us (the Universities) to promote through our
network.
What I mean is that Geo For All is Geo For All - Together.
So, in order to establish a Lab within Geo For All you should have a
University and at least one from the others (University/school,
government/University, University/industry, etc) and apply for it. 
We can establish a committee which can get these applications and send them
for blind peer view to scientists of the network (no matter where they
belong as long as they are experienced). This way we can have new Labs which
can use the Geo For All Logo and get closer to schools/industry/government.

Wishes
Nikos

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Dr. Nikos Lambrinos
Associate Professor
Dept. of Primary Education
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki
Greece, GR-54124
Tel. +30 2310 991201
Email: labrinos at eled.auth.gr
Web pages: http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/
                    http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/
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[mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 12:39 PM
To: Charles Schweik
Cc: Kurt Menke; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/Inputs for expanding "Geo for All" to
School education and more collaborations with Industry, Government etc

Hi Charlie,

You are right,  there is nothing in the MoU that specifies that only
universities or schools can be labs . My personal opinion is also that
everyone  following the MoU principles and our criteria should establish lab
[government or industry partner etc] and as you rightly pointed out that
will add more synergies.

I did receive feedback from a few colleagues that only universities/HE/FE
should be able to have title of  ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs (the argument being if
government, industry etc establish their own labs, then there is no
incentive for them to collaborate with the university labs ) but i think
there is nothing stopping any university lab to have their own links with
any industry/government/NGOs collaborations (in fact, we encouraged all
university labs to set up an Advisory Board, so that they can bring in key
people in industry, government etc  for expanding collaborations).   

This also links well to the plans for H2020 etc, the more industry,
government labs we have that will further strengthen the proposals and
bids.In fact, having many industry/government labs is good for this for
collaborating on joint projects, mentoring programs, initiating start ups,
incubation facilities etc. 

So i leave this to you all and AB to discuss at Como and let us look at the
bigger picture and how we all came work together for make this possible.

Suchith

________________________________________
From: Charles Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 10:12 AM
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: Phillip Davis; Kurt Menke; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/Inputs for expanding "Geo for All" to
School education and more collaborations with Industry, Government etc

Hi Suchith... You said:

...the title of ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs should only be for Education (i.e. only
Universities, HE, FE, Schools etc be able to use the logos of ICA, OSGeo and
ISPRS in their lab website etc).

With all due respect, I personally don't understand why a government or
industry partner (or a hybrid, like Kurt) can't establish a lab. I think we
should be totally inclusive. Looking back at the original MOU [1], I don't
see anything in it that specifies that only universities or schools can be
labs.

As you understand, there are important educational connections that can be
made here. Some firms and government agencies are engaged in training (like
FOSS4G workshops), and I'd love to see their training materials go into a
common repository I hope we can finally establish this year. Moerover, there
are untapped educational opportunities, such as internships or online
mentoring we can establish through academia-industry-government lab
connections. And, importantly, partnerships between educational and
government or industry labs could be made to work on open geospatial science
research (another component of education).

What we are trying to build is a global network of labs (public, private,
nonprofit) contributing to 'Commons-based Peer Production' in the context of
open geospatial science education and research. I have a section on the
grant I am writing that describes what this is and I'm happy to share it
with the list if people would like.

I look forward to the discussion on this on our first meeting next week -
(Item 2, Como pre-conference meeting) [2] and then we'll also report back on
what we decided at the first BOF.

Warm regards,

Charlie

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda

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