[Geo4All] Update about UN OpenGIS Initiative

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Maria and everyone involved in the UN OpenGIS Initiative,

Many thanks for this excellent initiative and updates. This is an excellent example of how can we contribute our efforts for United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for building a better world for everyone [1].

Dear all - please let Maria know asap if you can volunteer your expertise for this initiative. Thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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Oggetto:        Update about UN OpenGIS Initiative
Data:   Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:50:55 +0200
Mittente:       Maria Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it><mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
Organizzazione:         Politecnico di Milano
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Dear All
I want to send you an update about the involvement of some people of G4A in the UN OpenGIS Initiative.
The short communicate which was prepared about this initiative is below.

I thank all G4A and OSGeo (and also WB, WFP) people who have been involved up to now and/or will be involved in next steps:
Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani,Scott Hatcher,Ivana Ivanova,Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez ,  Paolo Corti,  Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis
and my students:
Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

I'll keep you informed. Please, if there are other people who want to be part of this initiative, contact me.
Have a nice week!
Maria

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The Geospatial Information Section (or UNGIS), Information and Communications Technology Division (ICTD) of the United Nations Department of Field Support (DFS) decided to pursue efforts, nicknamed as UN OpenGIS Initiative, in order to identify the role of open source geospatial technologies that could be substantial supported for UN Peace Operations. The UN OpenGIS Initiative aims at developing an enterprise GIS system using free and open source geospatial solutions in support of UN Peace Operations. For more information on UN OpenGIS Initiative, please contact Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, of UN and Prof. Ki-Joune Li of Pusan National University.
Within the initiative, there is a working group on Capacity Building, led by Prof. Maria Brovelli (Politecnico di Milano), as the Chair, as well as Mr. Diego Gonzales (UN) and Mr. Juan Hurtado (US South Command), as vice Chairs.
The team is composed by a list of volunteers of GeoForAll (G4A, a joint initiative between OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS) in providing suitable training packages for UN staff on open source geospatial technologies.
As the first step, it was decided to conduct training program as a virtual class for UN Staff, which is an on-line course as self-training with the help of G4A tutors, using some free and open source selected tutorials. The virtual class training courses will cover various subjects such as QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, GeoServer and OpenLayers. UN Staff will directly access training material through the free and open source ‘Beep Platform’ of Politecnico di Milano and could also be communicated with Tutors. The first course for the virtual class is chosen for QGIS GeoAcademy. The virtual class will be started in the second half of September 2016.

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