[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]

Hi GeoForAll colleagues:

Last call!

Anyone wishing to be listed on this inquiry letter on Urban Science/City
Analytics to the US NSF, please contact me *today*. I want to send this
letter off at the end of the day today (it is 10am where I am).

Thanks,
Charlie Schweik

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
> wrote:

> 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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> A: http://five.sentenc.es
>



-- 
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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