[GRASS-user] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN's program..: ESRI and cities mapping

[Benjamin Ducke]

Jeroen,

who do we have to contact at the UN for details on project applications
to get some funding for GRASS development and deployment around the
world?

There are lots of dedicated academics and professional GIS developers
behind GRASS GIS, based at highly respected public and private
institutions around the world. Many of them would most happily dedicate
additional time and effort to coordinating funded GRASS development.

With a substantial monetary investment, GRASS could overtake any
commercial solution in targeted functionality and usability. It is
spatial technology that's enabling, free, democratic and unconditional
to share for the entire world.

-- that's what the UN should be all about, isn't it?

Cheers,

Benjamin

Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
> Hi Ravi,
> As a UN employee I guess I have to react on your statement :-)
> As UN we are trying to provide and use quite a bit of open source 
> technologies. The OSGeo GeoNetwork opensource that I work on is an 
> example of that and there are a number of other activities existing or 
> starting up. take a look at the UN produced DVD "GeoNetwork opensource" 
> that contains nothing but geospatial open source software and is 
> distributed for free to many people all over the world.
> It remains a fact that many applications are (still?) build on 
> proprietary applications and there is not much wrong with that happening 
> also. At present I bet there are more developers that work on 
> proprietary systems and have no interest or knowledge to develop using 
> open source software and sometimes applications are simply not there yet 
> in open source. Mind you, I'm saying this as a profound open source 
> advocate :-) 
> As said, there are multiple initiatives that support open source, but 
> the world does not change in a day while many existing problems need to 
> be addressed immediately.
> Ciao,
> Jeroen
> 
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 3:00 PM, RAVI KUMAR wrote:
> 
>>     Hi all,
>>     It is unfortunate that United Nations nearly advocates Proprietory
>>     GIS.
>>     Time we react to this. The developing world is already throwing
>>     billions into
>>     un-sustainable Proprietory GIS for various GIS jobs.
>>      
>>     Fope the FOSS4G will discuss this and send a memorandum to UN..
>>      
>>     ww2.un <http://ww2.unhabitat.org/guonet/gis.asp>http://
>>     <http://ww2.unhabitat.org/guonet/gis.asp>habitat.org/guonet/gis.asp
>>     <http://ww2.unhabitat.org/guonet/gis.asp>
>>     Cheers
>>     Ravi Kumar
>>
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