[Geo4All] Help needed for AgriGIS capacity development across Africa

[Victor Sunday]

Dear Suchith,
Thanks for this update and we welcome Kiringai.Please,let me know how I can
help further the GODAN network in Nigeria ,if any and how exactly,do you
want the training material packaged.
Victor N.Sunday
Founder & Team Coordinator-UniqueMappers Open Source & Citizens Science
Network(UniqueMappersTeam)
UniqueMapperTeam GeoForAll Lab,Nigeria
Lecturer:Goinformatics & Environmemental Managment
University of Port Harcourt,Nigeria

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:30 PM Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) supports the
> proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and
> nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent
> challenge of ensuring world food security. As part of GODAN’s Capacity
> Development Working Group[1], we ran AgriGIS ThinkTank in Nairobi (2016)
> and Washington (2017) to get inputs from the community. Details at
> https://www.godan.info/documents/summary-godan-think-tank-open-geo-data-and-open-tools-achieve-food-security-and-sustainable-agriculture
>
>
> As requested by participants at the GODAN ThinkTanks , we have
> provided links and resources for free and open tools for AgriGIS at the
> GODAN website and started promoting OSGeo software to our community
> members. There is big demand from the GODAN capacity development community
> for GeoForAll training resources [2] ,  OSGeoLive, open data tutorials
> etc. GODAN Capacity Development community consists of over 4000 members
> globally  from policy makers to students.
>
>
> As majority of our members are from developing world and from economically
> poor communities , there is internet bandwidth issues esp. for downloading
> big files like OSGeo Live (4GB!), so we have decided to provide them
> through USBs to our partners (RCMRD, RUFORUM etc) for their AgriGIS
> training in Africa and I would like to request help from the
> OSGeo community for  this. We will also be helping the Regional
> Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)
> colleagues to establish GeoForAll labs in their universities. The Regional
> Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM),
> established by ten Vice Chancellors in 2004, is a consortium of 113 African
> universities operating within 38 countries spanning the African continent.
> RUFORUM is coordinated by a Secretariat hosted by Makerere University in
> Kampala, Uganda. RUFORUM supports universities to address the important and
> largely unfulfilled role that universities play in contributing to the
> well‐being of small‐scale farmers and economic development of countries .
> Details at https://www.ruforum.org/about-us
>
>
> In 2018, I was invited by RUFORUM to  address on the topic of  *“Harnessing
> the digital potential to drive  **higher education transformation in
> Africa”* [3].  I shared GeoForAll principles to ensure geo digital
> economy opportunities are also available to economically poor countries and
> economically poor people worldwide.
>
>
> I would like to introduce you to Kiringai Kamau ( GODAN Africa lead) and
> request you to help him and  all colleagues in Africa to build up
> capacity in AgriGIS. Kiringai is also Programme Lead for University of
> Nairobi’s Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing
> (CANIS). He is the Executive Director for Programme for Capacity
> Development in Africa (P4CDA) where he is involved in a new thinking in
> African Agriculture - the Student Led Agricultural Extension (SLAE).
>
>
> I had the opportunity to meet Kiringai at the GODAN AgriGIS ThinkTank In
> Nairobi in 2016 [4]. He went on to establish GeoforAll at University of
> Nairobi’s Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing
> (CANIS) and shared GeoForAll ideas to wider colleagues in Africa. I am
> impressed by his work on Capacity Development at grassroots level esp.
> for students and small holder farmers.
>
>
> Kiringai, You already know GeoForAll community. May I introduce you to
> OSGeo Live community. Please join the maillist at
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive and send any queries
> you have to help you in your training needs. Please also request relevant
> colleagues in RUFORUM, RCMRD and other universities in Africa to join the
> OSGeolive maillist , so they can get help for their AgriGIS capacity
> development and training needs. Thanks.
>
>
> I also request the GeoForAll community to share ideas on developing  training
> materials in Capacity Development in Climate, Landuse, ecosystem services
> for Agriculture. Thanks.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
> Dr. Suchith Anand
>
> Chief Scientist
>
> Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition
>
> https://www.godan.info
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> [1]
> https://www.godan.info/working-groups/capacity-development-working-group
>
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> [2]
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/
>
>
> [3]
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/harnessing-the-digital-potential-to-drive-higher-education-transformation-in-africa/
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>
> [4]
> https://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/11/summary-of-agrigis-thinktank-and-workshop-2016-nairobi-kenya/
>
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