[Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/Inputs for expanding "Geo for All" to School education and more collaborations with Industry, Government etc

Rania Elsayed ranyaalsayed at gmail.com
Mon Jul 13 01:06:38 PDT 2015 

Hello All,
National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences is a research
institute.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Libère,
>
> "Geo for All" has already arrived in Burundi and will keep expanding to
> make sure geoeducation opportunities are available to all .   Our
> colleagues at The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development
> (RCMRD) are our key link to Burundi and other countries in Africa . We hope
> over time dedicated labs will be established in many universities and
> schools across Africa including in Burundi .
>
> RCMRD was established in Nairobi – Kenya in 1975 under the auspices of the
> United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the then
> Organization of African Unity (OAU), today African Union (AU). RCMRD is an
> inter-governmental organisation and currently has 20 Contracting Member
> States in the Eastern and Southern Africa Regions; Botswana, Burundi,
> Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda,
> Seychelles, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania,
> Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Details at http://www.rcmrd.org/organization/
>
> Please inform any universities , schools etc interested in "Geo for All
> "to join us. We welcome you.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: libere mudende [mudendlibere at yahoo.fr]
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 7:06 AM
> To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/Inputs for expanding "Geo for All" to
> School education and more collaborations with Industry, Government etc
>
> Dear All;
> I want to know how the Geo for All can arrive in developping countries
> specialy in Burundi.
>
> Yours sinerely;
> Libère Mudende
>
>
>
> Le Mercredi 8 juillet 2015 16h57, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> a écrit :
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> The agenda and timings for the various GeoforAll meetings planned at
> FOSS4G-Europe Como next week are now available at [1]. Thanks to Charlie
> for taking lead on this and Helena for getting our lab list updated.
>
> The Agenda is very packed and covers all key topics. We are hoping to have
> telemeeting facility so those  who are not at Como can connect remotely to
> the meeting. The second BOF on Friday, will be  discussing GeoForAll
> expansion to schools and teacher training is important and timely. I am
> sure we will make good progress on this with the momentum that we are
> creating.
>
> There are currently 8  members that are outside academia (government,
> industry, NGO) in our lab list wiki table .Our AB is discussing ideas on
> how we engage more with Industry, Government etc for the future. It is good
> to discuss and decide how we want to proceed.
>
> Do we want to exclude all these 8 organisations who all have contributed
> for  "Geo for All" just because they are from government/industry etc OR is
> this a great opportunity to think of ideas of how we can engage more with
> Governments, Industry etc and get them more involved in "Geo for All" [2] .
> The key essence of ICA-OSGeo MoU was to  developing on a global basis
> collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government
> organisations in open source GIS software and data and we should enable
> that NOT create artificial barriers.
>
> One simple solution is  putting all Government/Industry/NGO etc in a
> separate table as "Geo for All" -Government, Industry, NGO Partners" and
> this will enable more government, Industry etc to join and support our
> mission. Only academic/university/school  labs will be allowed to use
> ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS title. The applications from those interested to join as
> supporters/partners from Industry, Government etc will have to be through
> the various regional chairs as with universities/colleages/schools .
>
> "Geo for All" -Government, Industry, NGO Partners
>
> * French Space Agency CNES  [Government]
> * IGN- France  [Government]
> * Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP      Montevideo      Uruguay
> [Government]
> * GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State      La Paz  Bolivia
> [Government]
> * National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences        Egypt
> [Government]
> * Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) [NGO]
> * ISRIC - World Soil Information Foundation      Wageningen      The
> Netherlands [NGO]
> * Birds Eye View GIS    USA [Industry]
>
> Also one thing that i noticed  while looking through the labs lists, is
> the cross fertilisation of activities from universities/industry happening.
> For example, the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich [3] is
> linked with  SourcePole [4]  and hopefully this will inspire more
> university labs to expand collaborations with industry and also help their
> students to create more startups in the future. I was looking at OSGeo UK
> Chapter and there are many SMEs in the UK doing training [5] etc in this
> and we need to think of ways to engage with them not just in UK but
> globally.
>
> As more and more government organisations, local authorities rapidly move
> to QGIS and other Open source solutions for enhanced efficiency and lower
> costs , one of the disadvantages till now  had been lack of support
> services and an ecosystem at the local level which is in fact the BIGGEST
> OPPORTUNITY for SMEs and startups to fill in and expand OSGeo ecosystem.
> There should be a strong ecosystem (universities, local government, SMEs
> etc)  to enable create conditions  for  many small RedHat [6]
> opportunities  to be created in Open Geospatial ecosystem worldwide  , so
> that there will be lot of jobs creation as well as innovation opportunities.
>
> So i have requested all AB members to provide their ideas /suggestions on
> this , so that Charlie, Helena and others can use the info. in our
> discussions at Como to help us find the best way forward.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda
> [2]  http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-July/001846.html
> [3] http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html
> [4] http://www.sourcepole.com
> [5]  http://www.osgeo.org/uk/training_providers
> [6]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
>
>
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