[Geo4All] 2018 YouthMappers Research Fellowships

Solis, Patricia patricia.solis at ttu.edu
Wed Nov 8 01:28:56 PST 2017 

DEADLINE 15 January 2018

The YouthMappers program invites applications for the 2018 YouthMappers Research Fellowship, a 9-month program designed to enlist, enable, and showcase the contributions of open geospatial data for research on resilience of vulnerable populations around the world. The proposed research projects must create and use open data, meet a standard of excellence and address the competitive criteria listed in the full call for applications, available at this webpage:

www.youthmappers.org/researchfellowship<http://www.youthmappers.org/researchfellowship>

Applications should be submitted by a team of two: 1) a university student (either undergraduate, masters or doctoral level) and 2) his/her faculty mentor or thesis advisor. Eligibility is restricted to members of YouthMappers chapters created and in good standing by December 1, 2017.  The Fellowship will provide support and costs to attend a Research Methodology Symposia in the United States and also a fellowship award of a total of $8,000 to be used as specified in the fellowship guidelines. Networking and additional mentoring by international experts will be part of the program and to connect proposed research results with relevant international stakeholder organizations.


Patricia Solís, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Center for Geospatial Technology
Research Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Geosciences
Adjunct Associate Professor, Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University

Co-Founder and Director, YouthMappers
www.youthmappers.org<http://www.youthmappers.org/>
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Today's Topics:

   1. Opening for Urban/ Infrastructure Studies in Uganda (Dan Bwanika)
   2. Re: Opening for Urban/ Infrastructure Studies in Uganda
      (Suchith Anand)
   3. Re: Opening for Urban/ Infrastructure Studies in Uganda
      (Dan Bwanika)
   4. Re: [Board] Opportunity: American Geophysical Union:
      Implementation of FAIR principles -> MOU by AGU and OSGeo ?
      (Suchith Anand)


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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 04:05:07 +0100
From: Dan Bwanika <bulemezi at gmail.com<mailto:bulemezi at gmail.com>>
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Subject: [Geo4All] Opening for Urban/ Infrastructure Studies in Uganda
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Dear Forum

Uganda has;

259 urban centres
22 municipalities
163 town councils

Most of the Africa continent is not surveyed or mapped.

Departments, faculties, schools, institutes or individuals involved in
Urban Infrastructure Studies and Communication research there's an
opening for; Miner Field Studies, Research Reports, Urban and
Infrastructure Prototyping, Dissertation or Thesis,
Urban/Infrastructure Business/Consultancy Reports etc.

If interested in any of the above for your; Students,Organisation,
Journal Article; Dissertation or Thesis you are welcome to get in
touch with Daniel https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.uidc-ea-org&data=02%7C01%7Cpatricia.solis%40ttu.edu%7C54313c9471c649db7bbe08d5268a823b%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C636457298704982951&sdata=CmI58G9SZQ6hbBT23sPGr%2BoZNO3xJ8ZgFS3pk4Uw9Vk%3D&reserved=0 .

I can get one of the municipalities to undertake studies.

Best Wishes.

Daniel Bwanika

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Box 12413 Kampala
Uganda

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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 08:21:54 +0000
From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>
To: Dan Bwanika <bulemezi at gmail.com<mailto:bulemezi at gmail.com>>, "GeoForAll at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:GeoForAll at lists.osgeo.org>"
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Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Opening for Urban/ Infrastructure Studies in
Uganda
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Hi Daniel,

Welcome to GeoForAll and thank you for sharing this updates. The situation you described is very true in many developing countries till recently but thanks to the effort of Open communities worldwide this is changing fast. You have now full access for all your geoeducation software education needs from the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Please be the GeoForAll leader in Uganda and share GeoForAll ideas at your conference and to all colleagues . Give everyone the power to donate software so digital divides are bridged. You can now donate  Free and Open Source Geospatial software to all the urban centres, municipalities and town councils in Uganda so they are empowered forever.

We look forward to your active participation in GeoForAll.

Best wishes,

Suchith



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From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of Dan Bwanika <bulemezi at gmail.com<mailto:bulemezi at gmail.com>>
Sent: 08 November 2017 3:05 AM
To: GeoForAll at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:GeoForAll at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [Geo4All] Opening for Urban/ Infrastructure Studies in Uganda

Dear Forum

Uganda has;

259 urban centres
22 municipalities
163 town councils

Most of the Africa continent is not surveyed or mapped.

Departments, faculties, schools, institutes or individuals involved in
Urban Infrastructure Studies and Communication research there's an
opening for; Miner Field Studies, Research Reports, Urban and
Infrastructure Prototyping, Dissertation or Thesis,
Urban/Infrastructure Business/Consultancy Reports etc.

If interested in any of the above for your; Students,Organisation,
Journal Article; Dissertation or Thesis you are welcome to get in
touch with Daniel https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.uidc-ea-org&data=02%7C01%7Cpatricia.solis%40ttu.edu%7C54313c9471c649db7bbe08d5268a823b%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C636457298704982951&sdata=CmI58G9SZQ6hbBT23sPGr%2BoZNO3xJ8ZgFS3pk4Uw9Vk%3D&reserved=0 .

I can get one of the municipalities to undertake studies.

Best Wishes.

Daniel Bwanika

--
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Box 12413 Kampala
Uganda

t: +256-752-972-960
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:57:59 +0100
From: Dan Bwanika <bulemezi at gmail.com<mailto:bulemezi at gmail.com>>
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Dear Prof. Suchith Anand

This comes at a timely period in Africa's physical transformation.
I will certainly do my best to be the messenger of the good news.

Experts, Academicians/ schorals/readers into the fields venturing into
this region, feel free to contact me if there is anything /where I can
be of use or help..

Best Wishes

Daniel Bwanika

On 11/8/17, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi Daniel,

Welcome to GeoForAll and thank you for sharing this updates. The situation
you described is very true in many developing countries till recently but
thanks to the effort of Open communities worldwide this is changing fast.
You have now full access for all your geoeducation software education needs
from the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Please be the GeoForAll leader
in Uganda and share GeoForAll ideas at your conference and to all colleagues
. Give everyone the power to donate software so digital divides are bridged.
You can now donate  Free and Open Source Geospatial software to all the
urban centres, municipalities and town councils in Uganda so they are
empowered forever.

We look forward to your active participation in GeoForAll.

Best wishes,

Suchith



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From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of Dan Bwanika
<bulemezi at gmail.com<mailto:bulemezi at gmail.com>>
Sent: 08 November 2017 3:05 AM
To: GeoForAll at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:GeoForAll at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [Geo4All] Opening for Urban/ Infrastructure Studies in Uganda

Dear Forum

Uganda has;

259 urban centres
22 municipalities
163 town councils

Most of the Africa continent is not surveyed or mapped.

Departments, faculties, schools, institutes or individuals involved in
Urban Infrastructure Studies and Communication research there's an
opening for; Miner Field Studies, Research Reports, Urban and
Infrastructure Prototyping, Dissertation or Thesis,
Urban/Infrastructure Business/Consultancy Reports etc.

If interested in any of the above for your; Students,Organisation,
Journal Article; Dissertation or Thesis you are welcome to get in
touch with Daniel https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.uidc-ea-org&data=02%7C01%7Cpatricia.solis%40ttu.edu%7C54313c9471c649db7bbe08d5268a823b%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C636457298705139210&sdata=SKdi38sfl2pUPCsp68CvVpf9gygsOfsW0hvO9m8RWdk%3D&reserved=0 .

I can get one of the municipalities to undertake studies.

Best Wishes.

Daniel Bwanika

--
_____________________________
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Box 12413 Kampala
Uganda

t: +256-752-972-960
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:24:16 +0000
From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>
To: "board at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>" <board at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>>,
"geoforall at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>" <geoforall at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>>
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Subject: Re: [Geo4All] [Board] Opportunity: American Geophysical
Union: Implementation of FAIR principles -> MOU by AGU and OSGeo ?
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Hi Peter,

Thank you for this info. This is an excellent outreach idea and AGU is a like minded community that we need to proactively build synergies. I think the work that  Open Geoscience Committee has doing by organising annual townhall meetings at the EGU gernal assemblies etc has been really great impact and we need to expand these ideas . OSGeo projects are driving science conducted by AGU/EGU members, so it is natural synergies. For the MoU with AGU/EGU and other like minded communities, you can get ideas from the MoUs the OSGeo have with ICA, ISPRS, IGU to get the template and modify as needed.

Please take lead to reach out to AGU, EGU  and establish MoU. This will be of interest to the GeoForAll Academic community as well.  We really need champions like you to reach out proactively to wider communities and build collaborations. So thank you for your initiative to reach out.

Best wishes,

Suchith



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From: Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe at gmx.de<mailto:peter.loewe at gmx.de>>
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Subject: [Board] Opportunity: American Geophysical Union: Implementation of FAIR principles -> MOU by AGU and OSGeo ?

Dear Board, (cc: OpengeoScience Committee)

I can inform you about an interesting opportunity for OSGeo.

AGU (https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.agu.org&data=02%7C01%7Cpatricia.solis%40ttu.edu%7C54313c9471c649db7bbe08d5268a823b%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C636457298705139210&sdata=PXUzC7TsVjTOFSlAygAyPXv51ResmVoA9LXJwGjoT2Y%3D&reserved=0, representing 60.000 geoscientists globally) is currently preparing a project to implement the FAIR-principles (Findable|Accessible|Interoperable|Reusable) for their science divisions and early career scientists. In this context, I'm attending the projects kickoff-meeting next week.

The current focus of AGU is to apply FAIR to all kinds of research data which is used and published.
According to the project stakeholders at AGU, they want to create a critical mass of all stakeholders providing input how to advance the implememntaion of FAIR.

It can be argued that software, including the OSgeo projects, is also a kind of data. We know from the annual general meetings of AGU and its twin organisation EGU (European Geoscience Union), that software tools from OSGeo projects are workhorses for science conducted by AGU/EGU members.

OSGeo has been reaching out to EGU/AGU already: The Open Geoscience Committee has been organising annual townhall meetings at the EGU gernal assemblies for over four years, OSGeo BOF-meetings have been organised during earlier AGU general assemblies.

While I have not been invited to the upcoming meeting because of being a OSgeo charter member, I believe this is a good opportunity to make our voice heard and put us officially on the map (IMHO FAIR is fully compatible with the OSGeo paradigm) and to argue for a MOU with AGU.

Feedback from the board would be appreciated, whether this approach is in the interest of OSGeo. If so, more advice on how to push for / prepare a MOU would be great (-> latest MOU with  DOI )


Best,
Peter

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