[Geo4All] UN Open GIS Capacity Building Initiative

[Ki-Joune Li]

Dear Maria,

 

I would congratulate you for starting the first GeoAcademy QGIS for UN Open
GIS,

and also appreciate all who have contributed to this wonderful CB program.

 

Thanks,

 

Ki-Joune

 

From: Maria Antonia Brovelli [mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it] 
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 1:19 AM
To: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; discuss osgeo <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
Cc: Diego Gonzalez Ferreiro <gonzalezferreiro at un.org>; Ki-Joune Li
<lik at pnu.edu>; eom at un.org
Subject: UN Open GIS Capacity Building Initiative

 

Dear All 

tomorrow we will start a first GeoAcademy QGIS Course in the frame of UN
Open GIS Capacity Building.

We will have four editions (one every month) for the UN Staff of Operational
Field (Peacekeeping Missions).

GeoAcademy will be strongly involved as well as some colleagues of
Universities and I want to thank Rick Smith, Tom Mueller and Youngok Kang,
who are the first tutors. I want also to let you know that many other
educators have given generously their availability and they will help in
next editions.

Diego Gonzales of UN also deserves a very big thank for the wonderful
co-chairing of this capacity building working group.

 

In my opinion the general UN Open GIS initiative aiming at approaching UN to
Open Source is relevant for our communities (both OSGeo and G4A). It means
that UN will start using open source GIS and this gives new opportunities to
all people involved in open source development, documenting, teaching and
training. 

It is true that few pieces of software have been taken into account so far.
But, please, consider that this initiative started in March and all this
process requires time to be implemented. And the time for attending courses
of UN Operational Field staff  is limited.

 

I will keep you informed.

Have a pleasant and fruitful week.

Maria

 

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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli

Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
Politecnico di Milano

 

ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)"; OSGeo;
ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET 

Sol Katz Award 2015

 

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