[Ica-osgeo-labs] Letter of Inquiry to US NSF to support a Research Coordination Effort in the context of Urban Science and City Analytics

[Charles Schweik]

Dear GeoForAll colleagues,



I, along with Patrick Hogan, Chris Pettit, Phil Davis, and a few others in
our GeoForAll group, have developed a draft “letter of inquiry” to the US
National Science Foundation’s Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS) program.
This letter will be investigating whether NSF GSS would welcome a full
grant proposal submission to create a Research Coordination Network for
GeoForAll with a specific focus on Urban Science and City Analytics. We are
focusing on this topic because it is an area that has received some
substantial dialog over the last month over the GeoForAll list, and we need
something to focus on collaboratively so that we can move to the next level
of network collaboration.

We also have the idea to try and have GeoForAll participants in
universities or colleges use our own campuses as “educational sandboxes”
where students develop geospatial applications for our institutions as
service learning, team-based learning opportunities, and share their
solutions with the network.



According to the NSF GSS program website [1], the due date for a proposal
would be September 3, 2015.



We already have a list of interested GeoForAll\OSGeo partners on the Urban
Science\City Analytics wiki page [2], and I have used the names there on
the end of the letter of inquiry.



*If you would like to see the draft letter and perhaps be included on this
initiative as a network participant, please *



*(1) add your name to the Urban Science wiki ‘Who’s Who Here’ list [2] and *

*(2) contact me right away so I can send you the draft letter for a quick
read. *



I hope to send this letter out to NSF this week, and hopefully we can build
on this text to go after some funding via other sources worldwide.



Thanks,



Charlie Schweik



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

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


-- 
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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