[Ica-osgeo-labs] [OpenCitySmart] Urban Transitions Global Summit

Mon Jan 18 03:41:11 PST 2016

Hi Emma, all,

Please also put the video overview presentation of OpenCitySmart – The Open Platform for Smart Cities presented at European Space Agency’s EO Science 2.0 conference (Oct 2015) at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.

Thanks to Ant Beck for helping prepare this excellent video overview at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWuMfMMPfPw

It is a sad fact that inspite of all the technological advancements, a vast majority of the world's poorest living in urban areas still do not have access to basic facilities (water, sanitation, electricity). The town planners in the developing world also need to be empowered with the tools they need to build up the digital infrastructures needed for enabling good quality of life for citizens in rapidly developing cities in poor countries also  (without having to pay huge costs for buying properitery software). OpenCitySmart tools like  NASA World Wind , Online What if etc are part of the solution to enable this.

There is urgent need for developing smart cities in the developing world also to enable all citizens worldwide to have good quality of life for the current and future generations. We all need to work together to make this possible. And by working together we may come to better appreciate what we share in common as well as experience the joy being able to help each other.

Best wishes,

Suchith

From: Christopher Pettit [c.pettit at unsw.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 10:57 AM
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Subject: RE: [OpenCitySmart] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Transitions Global Summit

Hi Emma and all,

Here is some more content for the GeoForAll newsletter.

The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) (http://aurin.org.au/) has been developing a geo-enabled open source online workbench to support urban researchers, planners and policy-makers plan for more sustainable, resilient and productive cities. As part of this online workbench AURIN has developed a full operational online planning support systems (PSS) tool, which contributes towards the “ Geo for All” (http://www.geoforall.org/)  Opencitysmart https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart) agenda.

The Online What If? (OWI) PSS tool is an open source implementation of the desktop What if? 2.0 PSS tool, originally developed by Prof Richard Klosterman (http://www.whatifinc.biz/). What if? 2.0 tool has been used by over 150 users in 22 countries to support collaborative land use planning. The OWI source code can be accessed via GitHub and install on your own server. You can also use your own copy of OWI hosted by AURIN free of charge for non-commercial purposes. Access to all of the resources you need to use OWI from: http://aurin.org.au/projects/portal-and-infrastructure/what-if/. This site includes complete documentation on using OWI and a demo data set for Wanneroo, situated in the City of Perth, Western Australia.

References
Pettit, C.J. Klosterman, R.E. Nino-Ruiz, M. Widjaja, I., Tomko, M., Sinnott, R. (2013). The Online What if? Planning Support System in Planning Support Systems for Sustainable Urban Development, Eds Geertman, S and Stillwell, J. Springer Publishers, pp 349-362.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6w8ls38b5fuad61/Whatif_Perth.pdf?dl=0

Pettit, C.J. Klosterman, R.E., Delaney, P., Whitehead, A, L., Kujala, H.,. Bromage, A., Nino-Ruiz, M. (2015) The Online What if? Planning Support System: A Land Suitability Application in Western Australia, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. Vol 8, Issue 2, pp 93-112.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qee63l2ri3hdxyg/304995_1_En_20_Chapter_OnlinePDF.pdf?dl=0

Regards

Chris

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From: OpenCitySmart [mailto:opencitysmart-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Sent: Monday, 18 January 2016 11:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [OpenCitySmart] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Transitions Global Summit

Suchith, Emma, and All,

Yes, Urban Transitions, we either make this work or we are unmade!
What is the least common denominator for a global society? It is a City!
And you don’t have to be blind to see it, but it can help! If you got rhythm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W130l1uoTY0

How can we best help each other while we are helping ourselves? It’s the old adage, think global, act local! All cities have essentially the same problems to face, infrastructure management, transportation, construction, fire and safety, etcetera. Why are cities each left to each duplicate solutions to these identical needs? We are missing a great opportunity to recognize our commonality, and share the burden by dividing the problem and generating solutions that we can share, evolve and continually optimize.

This could also begin to help the world see itself as one for all and all for one, in both spirit and in action. In the words of John F. Kennedy, “We choose go to [OpenCitySmart] and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win!” We need a common ^open^ platform that will allow us to add or subtract features we can all build to.

The NASA Europa Challenge, in concert with Politecnico di Milano at Como and the GeoForAll enterprise has this as our goal. Care to join us? http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (office)
(650) 269-2788 (cell)

From: Suchith Anand [mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 6:05 AM
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Subject: RE: [OpenCitySmart] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Transitions Global Summit

Patrick -  this is also is a good venue for the awards for Europa Challenge 2016 esp as the theme is on CitySmart :) Having the award given in Shanghai shows it is international (also gives more outreach in Asia).

If you are interested to follow up this, we can then discuss with Darren and make this happen.

Suchith
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Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 4:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [OpenCitySmart] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Transitions Global Summit
Hi all,

It would be nice to have something included in the next GeoForAll newsletter about the OpenCitySmart project.  It is a project that I personally am particularly interested in as well. I am the North American co-editor, and we like to include sections on new software/apps/projects in the OSGeo community.  The wiki still uses future tense for the OpenCitySmart project, so I assume it is fairly new.

If someone involved close to the heart of this project could write up a paragraph or two about this project, it could be featured in the next newsletter. If anyone would like to summarize some key features, go over some achievements, examples of applications, etc. it would be a great addition to the newsletter, and you can email it directly to me (eestrong118 at gmail.com<mailto:eestrong118 at gmail.com>)  An announcement about the conference will be added as well (with no further action required).

Thank you,
Emma Strong
GIS Coordinator, SMPDD

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu<mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>> wrote:

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately, I personally can't go to this, but it is a great idea to have our group do something there.

I guess the first question is, who from the OpenCitySmart community might be able to go?
After that, then we might have a discussion of what would be submitted -- a workshop proposal or a collaborative paper?

One idea on a Workshop might be something around the use of NASA World Wind as a platform with then a couple examples of how people have used it for some Urban-related application? If one theme of our group is moving in that direction, then that might be a motivator for us to get some proof of concepts implemented? Just brain storming here.

Cheers
Charlie

Charlie Schweik
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration
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Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/
Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Christopher Pettit <c.pettit at unsw.edu.au<mailto:c.pettit at unsw.edu.au>> wrote:

Dear All,

There is a call for workshops to be held as part of the Urban Transitions Global Summit.

Could be a good chance to submit and run workshop or a paper ? There is a theme on Digitally Support Urban Futures

Workshop proposal due 20th Jan. Abstracts for posters and presentations due 3rd of March.

Regards

Chris

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