[Geo4All] AAG synergies and collaboration- telemeeting followup

[Suchith Anand]

Dear all,


Please find below the draft of the proposed panel session at AAG 2019.  We need two volunteers who are planning to attend AAG and interested in co-organising this session to please let me know by 22nd October.


Details below


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AAG 2019 PANEL


Enabling the Right to Benefit from Geospatial Scientific Progress for everyone



At the 2019 AAG Conference, YouthMappers will be organising a mapathan and the GeoForAll community aims to support this excellent initiative by bringing together a panel session looking into ideas for enabling the Right to Benefit from Geospatial Scientific Progress for everyone through Open Principles in Geospatial Education.


Geographic Information Science is an important contributor to the advancement of human knowledge, as well to solving so many societal challenges.Through there has been huge advances in Geographic Information Science over the the last few decades, the benefits of Geospatial education and entrepreneurship opportunities are very limited for economically poor students and  communities. GIS was an expensive technology and hence many economically  poor students and communities did not have access to this  over many decades.  The last decade has seen a rapid growth in open source geospatial software and open data developments which has now made geospatial software  and education opportunities available to all. Open principles in education (open educational resources, free and open software, open data, open standards , open access to research publications) are  a big enabler for  making geoeducation  opportunities accessible to all .


How do we enable geoeducation opportunities for all? How can Open Principles in Geospatial Education help enable  everyone to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications? How can we create a global community of thinkers  committed to enabling geoeducation  opportunities for all?


At AAG 2019, we aim to bring together key thinkers to discuss ideas for this.


If you are interested in co-chairing this session, please email  to Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> by Wednesday October 22nd



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From: Solis, Patricia <Patricia.Solis at ttu.edu>
Sent: 17 October 2018 16:16
To: Suchith Anand; Guido Stein; Mueller, Thomas
Cc: Chad Blevins; geoforall-ab at lists.osgeo.org; Thomas Gertin; Sven Fuhrmann; Zeballos, Marcela
Subject: Re: AAG synergies and collaboration- telemeeting followup


Hi Suchith – you capture it very accurately! Thanks, and looking forward to this!

Patricia



Patricia Solís, PhD

CoFounder and Director, YouthMappers

Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Geography

Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University









From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 7:06 AM
To: Guido Stein <guido at guidostein.com>, "Mueller, Thomas" <Mueller at calu.edu>
Cc: Chad Blevins <cblevins at usaid.gov>, "Solis, Patricia" <Patricia.Solis at ttu.edu>, "geoforall-ab at lists.osgeo.org" <geoforall-ab at lists.osgeo.org>, Thomas Gertin <tgertin at gmail.com>, Sven Fuhrmann <sfuhrman at gmu.edu>, "Zeballos, Marcela" <Marcela.Zeballos at ttu.edu>
Subject: AAG synergies and collaboration- telemeeting followup



Thank you to Patricia, Marcella, Tom, Phillip who were able to join our telemeeting. . I hope I correctly summarised the main points from the discussions below . Please correct/edit/modify  as needed.



  1.  We discussed ideas for supporting YouthMappers hackathon at AAG 2019. Patricia, Marcella are involved in organising this. We can support them by helping organise a panel session    (just before the hackathon) bring key panelists.

Action - Suchith to prepare a draft abstract for the proposed panel session and send it to GeoForAll list with request that any two volunteers who are planning to be at AAG 2019 act as co-chairs for the session. We can then submit this by Oct 24th?



2. We discussed the importance of having strong presence for OSGeo at AAG 2019. Once idea was to have OSGeo Live USBs handed out to all AAG participants, students etc . This will be a great way to reach out to the participants as well as serve a great value to the participants.



There will costs but doable if we are able to find an organisation to sponsor the OSGeo Live USBs ? Guido- it will be great to have your ideas for this. The sponsor can put their logo in the USB?  All ideas welcome.



Patricia - please add any other points I missed? Thanks.



Best wishes,



Suchith











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