[Geo4All] Final CFP (go.illinois.edu/gsi-cfp2): Second NSF Workshop on Conceptualizing a National Geospatial Software Institute

[Suchith Anand]

Dear Shaowen,





Thank you for sharing the summary of previous excellent workshop. Great to know that the institute is aimed to help bridge academia and industry and will benefit both sides. I think this is good idea. Having many industry players will ensure healthy competition to help accelerate innovation opportunities for all. 




“Fake news “and “Fake Science” are becoming big problems globally, so we all need to be very attentive on all developments. I do have concerns with  some vendors starting to trademark “science” for marketing their products etc, thereby “science” is being misused . I have raised this issue through an open letter [1] . 




As the vendors are very powerful and with lot of money power they can buy influence . I think it is important that all advisors and staff involved  in all public funded projects declare any conflict of interest with any vendors (funding/sponsorship  received from any software vendors currently or in the past) ) to ensure transparency and good practices. Thanks.




Best wishes,





Suchith







[1] https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/open-letter-importance-scientific-freedom-and-public-good








From: Wang, Shaowen <shaowen at illinois.edu>
Sent: 05 June 2018 23:23
To: Suchith Anand; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: Final CFP (go.illinois.edu/gsi-cfp2): Second NSF Workshop on Conceptualizing a National Geospatial Software Institute  
Dear Suchith, 

 

Many thanks for spreading the word. The potential institute is supposed to help bridge academia and industry and benefit both sides. You might be interested to read the summary of our first workshop:http://gsi.cigi.illinois.edu/workshop/workshop-summary/. 

 

Best,

-Shaowen

 

Sent from my iPhone

 

From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 10:15 AM
To: "Wang, Shaowen" <shaowen at illinois.edu>, "geoforall at lists.osgeo.org" <geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: Final CFP (go.illinois.edu/gsi-cfp2): Second NSF Workshop on Conceptualizing a National Geospatial Software Institute

 

 

Dear Shaowen,

 

Thank you for sharing this info. I have shared the call with my lists and contacts and I hope you get some good position papers. This is a great initiative and I am looking forward to the outcomes from the project.

 

I have a query. As I understand it is taxpayer funded (NSF) project for  a national Geospatial Software Institute (GSI), did  all project members and  others involved in the project declare if they had any conflict of interest  (esp. if any of them have  received any funding/sponsorship  from any GIS or other software vendors currently or in the past)? This will help to create clear transparency guidelines for the future.

 

Thank you for this great initiative for establishing a national Geospatial Software Institute (GSI). I am sure this will be role model for other countries to follow.

 

Best wishes,

 

Suchith

 

 

From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Wang, Shaowen <shaowen at illinois.edu>
Sent: 29 May 2018 19:19
To: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Final CFP (go.illinois.edu/gsi-cfp2): Second NSF Workshop on Conceptualizing a National Geospatial Software Institute

 

Dear colleagues,

 

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently funded a project (http://gsi.cigi.illinois.edu) to conceptualize a national Geospatial Software Institute (GSI) as a long-term hub of excellence in geospatial software that can serve diverse research and education communities. We have strong momentum to conceptualize the GSI after the first workshop:http://gsi.cigi.illinois.edu/workshop/agenda/ that was a great success. The second workshop will take place in Chicago, IL, USA on July 15-17, 2018. July 15th is intended for an ice-breaking event on the evening so that most participants will be ready for the morning program on July 16th. We plan to wrap up the workshop by 1pm on July 17th.

 

We are inviting position papers:http://go.illinois.edu/gsi-cfp2 due on June 1, 2018, and look forward to your submissions.If your position paper is selected, you will receive NSF travel support to attend the workshop. Your help for spreading the word is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks & best, 

-Shaowen

 

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Shaowen Wang

Professor and Department Head

Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar

    Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science

Affiliate Professor

    Computer Science, Information Sciences, Urban & Regional Planning

Founding Director

    CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,www.geog.illinois.edu 
  
 
  
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