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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thanks Andy . The updated abstract version is good.</p>
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<div class="" style="margin:0px; line-height:normal"><span class="">Geographic Information Science and Technology are important contributors to the advancement of human knowledge, as well to solving many societal challenges. </span><span class="">Through there
have been huge advances in GIST over the last few decades, the benefits of geospatial education and entrepreneurship opportunities are very limited for economically poor students and communities, due to the expense of the technology. </span><span class="">However,
the last decade has seen a rapid growth in free and open-source geospatial software along with the development of many open-data resources, </span>based in open standards<span class="">. </span>Together with open educational resources and open access to research
publications, these <span class="">Open Principles in Geospatial Education have significantly lowered the barrier to the use of GIST by the broader public</span><font class=""><span class="">.</span></font></div>
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research; (c) participation of individuals and communities in decision-making and the related right to information; and (d) an enabling environment fostering the conservation, development and diffusion of science and technology.”</div>
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last decade has seen a rapid growth in open source geospatial software and open data developments which has now made geospatial software</span><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> </span><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">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</span><span class="" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px"><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> </span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> </span></span><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">making
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">You are right, we have till Nov 8th to finalize ideas for this. We just need on more cochair willing to help organise this panel session to inform us if possible by 22nd Monday so we can start work on
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">I understand YouthMappers are planning the mapathon outside the main AAG conference venue (Patricia - did I understand this correctly ?) . If so, we have bit more time to finalise the panelists etc.</div>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Looks like I’ll be going to AAG, and I’m willing to co-chair.
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<div class="">October 22 is a Monday, by the way. Looks like we have until November 8 to pull this together in its entirety:</div>
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<div class="">On Oct 19, 2018, at 7:14 AM, Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk232760" previewremoved="true">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">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.</div>
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<b class="">AAG 2019 PANEL </b></div>
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<b class="">Enabling the Right to Benefit from Geospatial Scientific Progress for everyone </b></div>
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<span class="">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.</span><span class=""> </span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin:0px; line-height:normal"><span class="" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px">Geographic Information Science is an important contributor to the advancement of human knowledge, as well to solving so many societal challenges.</span><span class="" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px">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.</span><span class="" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px"> <span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px">The
last decade has seen a rapid growth in open source geospatial software and open data developments which has now made geospatial software</span><span class="" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px"> </span><span class="" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px">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</span><span class="" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px"> <span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12px">making
geoeducation </span></font><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12px">opportunities accessible to all .</span></font></div>
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<span class="">How do we enable geoeducation opportunities for all? How can </span><span class="">Open Principles in Geospatial Education</span><span class=""> help </span><span class="">enable</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">everyone to enjoy
the benefits of scientific progress and its applications? How can we create a global community of thinkers</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">committed to enabling geoeducation</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">opportunities for all?</span><span class=""><br class="">
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<div class="" style="margin:0px; line-height:normal"><font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12px">At AAG 2019, we aim to bring together key thinkers to discuss ideas for this.</span></font></div>
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<span class="">If you are interested in co-chairing this session, please email</span><span class=""> <span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="">to<span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" id="LPlnk228550" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span class="">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a><span class=""><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>by
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<b class="">Sent:</b><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>17 October 2018 16:16<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Suchith Anand; Guido Stein; Mueller, Thomas<br class="">
<b class="">Cc:</b><span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chad Blevins;<span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:geoforall-ab@lists.osgeo.org" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk118909" previewremoved="true">geoforall-ab@lists.osgeo.org</a>;
Thomas Gertin; Sven Fuhrmann; Zeballos, Marcela<br class="">
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">Hi Suchith – you capture it very accurately! Thanks, and looking forward to this!</div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><b class=""><span class="" style="color:rgb(13,13,13)">Patricia Solís, PhD</span></b></div>
<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><b class=""><span class="" style="color:rgb(13,13,13)">CoFounder and Director, YouthMappers</span></b></div>
<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span class="" style="color:rgb(13,13,13)">Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Geography</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span class="" style="color:rgb(13,13,13)">Department of Geosciences</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,<span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="" style="color:rgb(13,13,13)">Texas
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">From:<span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk546223" previewremoved="true">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Date:<span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 7:06 AM<br class="">
<b class="">To:<span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Guido Stein <<a href="mailto:guido@guidostein.com" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk414990" previewremoved="true">guido@guidostein.com</a>>, "Mueller, Thomas" <<a href="mailto:Mueller@calu.edu" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk528558" previewremoved="true">Mueller@calu.edu</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Cc:<span class="x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Chad Blevins <<a href="mailto:cblevins@usaid.gov" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk884045" previewremoved="true">cblevins@usaid.gov</a>>, "Solis, Patricia" <<a href="mailto:Patricia.Solis@ttu.edu" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk647081" previewremoved="true">Patricia.Solis@ttu.edu</a>>,
"<a href="mailto:geoforall-ab@lists.osgeo.org" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk728318" previewremoved="true">geoforall-ab@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:geoforall-ab@lists.osgeo.org" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk766557" previewremoved="true">geoforall-ab@lists.osgeo.org</a>>,
Thomas Gertin <<a href="mailto:tgertin@gmail.com" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk983472" previewremoved="true">tgertin@gmail.com</a>>, Sven Fuhrmann <<a href="mailto:sfuhrman@gmu.edu" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk596124" previewremoved="true">sfuhrman@gmu.edu</a>>,
"Zeballos, Marcela" <<a href="mailto:Marcela.Zeballos@ttu.edu" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk589963" previewremoved="true">Marcela.Zeballos@ttu.edu</a>><br class="">
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correct/edit/modify as needed.</span></div>
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the hackathon) bring key panelists. </span></li></ol>
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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?</span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">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. </span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">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.</span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Patricia - please add any other points I missed? Thanks.</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt"></span></div>
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