[Ica-osgeo-labs] Letter of Inquiry to US NSF to support a Research Coordination Effort in the context of Urban Science and City Analytics

Tue Mar 17 02:40:52 PDT 2015

Hi all,

O.K. Therefore, please, let me know how to sign the letter.

In fact, I was thinking on an H2020 network in the same item. I will write to the european list and, if we see that there is a critical mass, can open the network to other non-european countries.

Best regards,

Toni

Antoni Pérez Navarro 
Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació [Responsable de les assignatures de Física i Sistemes d'Informació Geogràfica] 
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 

aperezn at uoc.edu 
22@ (Rambla Poblenou, 156 / 08018 Barcelona) 
@tonipereznavarr

Aquest missatge s'adreça exclusivament a qui va destinat i pot contenir informació privilegiada o confidencial i dades de caràcter personal, la difusió de les quals és regulada per la Llei orgànica de protecció de dades i la Llei de serveis de la societat de la informació. Si no sou la persona destinatària indicada (o la responsable de lliurar-lo a qui va destinat), no heu de copiar aquest missatge ni lliurar-lo a tercers per cap concepte. Si heu rebut aquest missatge per error o l'heu aconseguit per altres mitjans, us demanem que ens ho comuniqueu immediatament per aquesta mateixa via i l'elimineu irreversiblement. 

Abans d'imprimir aquest missatge electrònic penseu en el medi ambient.

--- Missatge original de Charles Schweik per a Antoni Pérez Navarro (aperezn at uoc.edu) amb còpia a "ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org" enviat el 17.03.2015 10:36

Hi Antoni,   Yes, I am putting US participants first, but the US NSF Research Coordination Network program encourages the development of an international network. There are rules about how the funding can be used, but I am trying to show in this letter that we have an international group who wants to work on Urban Science/City Analytics research and education together.    So having international names under the US ones is helpful.   Finally, I am hoping that the same ideas can be used by others on this list to go after other non-US sources of funding.   I hope that clarifies. If you want me to send you the letter, let me know.   Thanks, Charlie  
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Antoni PXrez Navarro wrote:
Sorry Charlie but, since it a letter to the USA government, should not only to be signed by USA citizens?

Antoni Pérez Navarro 
Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació [Responsable de les assignatures de Física i Sistemes d'Informació Geogràfica] 
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 

aperezn at uoc.edu 
22@ (Rambla Poblenou, 156 / 08018 Barcelona) 
@tonipereznavarr

Aquest missatge s'adreça exclusivament a qui va destinat i pot contenir informació privilegiada o confidencial i dades de caràcter personal, la difusió de les quals és regulada per la Llei orgànica de protecció de dades i la Llei de serveis de la societat de la informació. Si no sou la persona destinatària indicada (o la responsable de lliurar-lo a qui va destinat), no heu de copiar aquest missatge ni lliurar-lo a tercers per cap concepte. Si heu rebut aquest missatge per error o l'heu aconseguit per altres mitjans, us demanem que ens ho comuniqueu immediatament per aquesta mateixa via i l'elimineu irreversiblement. 

Abans d'imprimir aquest missatge electrònic penseu en el medi ambient.

--- Missatge original de Charles Schweik per a "ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org" enviat el 17.03.2015 10:06

Hi GeoForAll colleagues:   Last call!    Anyone wishing to be listed on this inquiry letter on Urban Science/City Analytics to the US NSF, please contact me today. I want to send this letter off at the end of the day today (it is 10am where I am).    Thanks, Charlie Schweik

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Charles Schweik wrote:

Dear GeoForAll colleagues,

I, along with Patrick Hogan, Chris Pettit, Phil Davis, and a few others in our GeoForAll group, have developed a draft ?letter of inquiry? to the US National Science Foundation?s Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS) program. This letter will be investigating whether NSF GSS would welcome a full grant proposal submission to create a Research Coordination Network for GeoForAll with a specific focus on Urban Science and City Analytics. We are focusing on this topic because it is an area that has received some substantial dialog over the last month over the GeoForAll list, and we need something to focus on collaboratively so that we can move to the next level of network collaboration. 
We also have the idea to try and have GeoForAll participants in universities or colleges use our own campuses as ?educational sandboxes? where students develop geospatial applications for our institutions as service learning, team-based learning opportunities, and share their solutions with the network.

According to the NSF GSS program website [1], the due date for a proposal would be September 3, 2015.

We already have a list of interested GeoForAll\OSGeo partners on the Urban Science\City Analytics wiki page [2], and I have used the names there on the end of the letter of inquiry.

If you would like to see the draft letter and perhaps be included on this initiative as a network participant, please

(1) add your name to the Urban Science wiki ?Who?s Who Here? list [2] and
(2) contact me right away so I can send you the draft letter for a quick read.

I hope to send this letter out to NSF this week, and hopefully we can build on this text to go after some funding via other sources worldwide.

Thanks,

Charlie Schweik

[1] http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505034
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
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Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration
Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/
Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545   -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es

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Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration
Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/
Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545   -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es

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Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration
Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/
Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545   -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es
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