[Ica-osgeo-labs] Presentation...

[Phillip Davis]

An associate runs the IUCN office in DC and ask I share the following:

 Calling all innovators! The Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge is a competition that will award Grand Prizes of up to $500,000 for the most impactful and scalable science and tech solutions to combat trafficking of terrestrial and marine wildlife. The Challenge, an initiative of USAID in partnership with the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, and TRAFFIC, calls on the global community to deliver bold and innovative solutions to stamp out the illegal trade in wildlife – a crisis for nature and humanity. The competition focuses on four wildlife trafficking issues: 1) understanding and shutting down transit routes; 2) strengthening forensic evidence to build strong criminal cases; 3) reducing consumer demand for illegal wildlife products; and 4) tackling corruption.  Learn how your skills can help solve one of the world’s most urgent problems by visiting www.wildlifecrimetech.org and applying today. The Challenge is accepting applications from April 22 through June 30. Check it out! ''



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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of lorrain eugenio giddings soto [lorgid.soto at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 5:38 PM
To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Presentation...

Hello everyone,

My name is Lorrain Giddings, I work in the state university of Veracruz  (Universidad Veracruzana). I'm part of an office called "Coordinación Universitaria de Observatorios". It's an office dedicated to promote civil observatories by helping to establish the indicators that will be generated and putting together social, economical and environmental context data. We have been doing this threw QGIS and GeoServer. We now have a pretty strong gis and geoserver office so we decided to promote QGIS in our university and  we've been very successful at it. Many of the new GIS users use QGIS software and some ARCGIS user have also migrated. My job in the institution is to gather data form official sources and to make tutorials and also give GIS classes. I've been working hard on translating the procedures people do in ARCMAP and IDRIS to OSGeo different programs. I thought you'd like to know this, it's a great software and were very happy with it. We use it so much that I thought it was time to get in touch with the community, I wrote to OSGEO and they told me about this mail list. We are very happy to have joined this and are looking forward to establish some kind of communication with you guys. Maybe  we could  invite you over so you can talk about OSGeo, or even teach something about  it.  It's a great program and I'm very happy teaching and learning it. Hope to hear back from you.

Lorrain Eugenio Giddings Soto

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