[Geo4All] Geo4All Humanitarian mapathons lead

Thu Apr 21 22:02:42 PDT 2016

With last week's terrible earth quakes in Japan and Equador, it clearly shows that we all need to think out of the box to find solutions. Current and future students  will be the ones who will find solutions for seemingly difficult research areas like Earthquake prediction. Last years Europa Challenge was won by some high school students from Alaska beating even big university teams which shows if given the opportunity any school students can achieve amazing potential and be part of helping solve global challenges. They developed an amazing prototype of Global Earthquake Forecasting system.

Details and video at http://www.edlinesites.net/pages/America_Bridge_Project/Europa_Challenge

>From this year at the University of Nottingham we are also actively promoting Europa Challenge for this. Our first event will be on 3rd May 2016

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/esnc-and-europa-challenge-2016.aspx

I request more universities to promote Europa Challenge in whichever way you can (by seminars, info days or making use of whichever platforms that exist within your universities).

Through Geo4All Schools we aim to use geotechnologies as a usecase to advance STEM interest in Schools through Open Principles so that students develop creative minds to help solve global challenges (not just mere users). The bigger aim is to also to advance STEM education across the world and bring together schools, teachers and students across the world in joint projects and help building international understanding and global peace.

Suchith
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From: GeoForAll [geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Suchith Anand [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 7:44 PM
To: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Geo4All Humanitarian mapathons lead

Dear Colleagues,

The earthquakes in Nepal last year and Japan and Ecuador last week, highlighted the importance of having a key lead from Geo4All to coordinate our mapathons for providing rapid assistance to HOT and the humanitarian organizations facing the post-event operations.

Marco Minghini and colleagues at Politecnico di Milano have always provided us with strong leadership on this and i propose that we have Marco Minghini and Politecnico di Milano as our main lead for coordinating Geo4All Humanitarian mapathons .

Similar to our webinars (Webinars are now coordinated and lead by Rafael and University of Denver), I suggest that we also have a seperate link in our website to provide details of this  (including links to tutorials etc) so in future rapid action can be taken. Thank you Marco for your help.

Suchith

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From: Discuss [discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Suchith Anand [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 7:15 PM
To: discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] humanitarian mapathons for Japan and Ecuador

May i request anyone who is interested to help for the humanitarian mapathons for Japan and Ecuador to please contact Dr Marco Minghini (Email - marco.minghini at polimi.it )  who is leading the Geo4All efforts on this.

Our thanks to Marco and colleagues for thier help and efforts  [1]

Suchith

[1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/04/mapping-response-contributions-for-nepal/

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From: GeoForAll [geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Marco Minghini [marco.minghini86 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 4:41 PM
To: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Cristiano Giovando; Tyler Radford
Subject: [Geo4All] humanitarian mapathons for Japan and Ecuador

Dear all,

following the terrible earthquakes that have hit Japan and Ecuador, tomorrow we will have a mapathon here at GEOlab - Politecnico di Milano to assist HOT and the humanitarian organizations facing the post-event operations.

If anyone wants to join the mapathon from remote (or simply would like to help in mapping but has no experience on how to do that), please contact me.

All the best,

Marco

Marco Minghini, Ph.D.
GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - Como Campus
via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como (Italy)
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