[OpenCitySmart] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Transitions Global Summit

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith, Emma, and All,

Yes, Urban Transitions, we either make this work or we are unmade!
What is the least common denominator for a global society? It is a City!
And you don't have to be blind to see it, but it can help! If you got rhythm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W130l1uoTY0

How can we best help each other while we are helping ourselves? It's the old adage, think global, act local! All cities have essentially the same problems to face, infrastructure management, transportation, construction, fire and safety, etcetera. Why are cities each left to each duplicate solutions to these identical needs? We are missing a great opportunity to recognize our commonality, and share the burden by dividing the problem and generating solutions that we can share, evolve and continually optimize.

This could also begin to help the world see itself as one for all and all for one, in both spirit and in action. In the words of John F. Kennedy, "We choose go to [OpenCitySmart] and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win!" We need a common ^open^ platform that will allow us to add or subtract features we can all build to.

The NASA Europa Challenge, in concert with Politecnico di Milano at Como and the GeoForAll enterprise has this as our goal. Care to join us? http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

-Patrick
(650) 604-5656 (office)
(650) 269-2788 (cell)

From: Suchith Anand [mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 6:05 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; opencitysmart at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [OpenCitySmart] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Transitions Global Summit

Patrick -  this is also is a good venue for the awards for Europa Challenge 2016 esp as the theme is on CitySmart :) Having the award given in Shanghai shows it is international (also gives more outreach in Asia).

If you are interested to follow up this, we can then discuss with Darren and make this happen.

Suchith

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From: OpenCitySmart [opencitysmart-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Emma Strong [eestrong118 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 4:03 PM
To: Charlie Schweik
Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>; opencitysmart at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:opencitysmart at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [OpenCitySmart] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Transitions Global Summit
Hi all,

It would be nice to have something included in the next GeoForAll newsletter about the OpenCitySmart project.  It is a project that I personally am particularly interested in as well. I am the North American co-editor, and we like to include sections on new software/apps/projects in the OSGeo community.  The wiki still uses future tense for the OpenCitySmart project, so I assume it is fairly new.

If someone involved close to the heart of this project could write up a paragraph or two about this project, it could be featured in the next newsletter. If anyone would like to summarize some key features, go over some achievements, examples of applications, etc. it would be a great addition to the newsletter, and you can email it directly to me (eestrong118 at gmail.com<mailto:eestrong118 at gmail.com>)  An announcement about the conference will be added as well (with no further action required).

Thank you,
Emma Strong
GIS Coordinator, SMPDD

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu<mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>> wrote:

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately, I personally can't go to this, but it is a great idea to have our group do something there.

I guess the first question is, who from the OpenCitySmart community might be able to go?
After that, then we might have a discussion of what would be submitted -- a workshop proposal or a collaborative paper?

One idea on a Workshop might be something around the use of NASA World Wind as a platform with then a couple examples of how people have used it for some Urban-related application? If one theme of our group is moving in that direction, then that might be a motivator for us to get some proof of concepts implemented? Just brain storming here.

Cheers
Charlie

Charlie Schweik
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


On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Christopher Pettit <c.pettit at unsw.edu.au<mailto:c.pettit at unsw.edu.au>> wrote:

Dear All,



There is a call for workshops to be held as part of the Urban Transitions Global Summit.



Could be a good chance to submit and run workshop or a paper ? There is a theme on Digitally Support Urban Futures

Workshop proposal due 20th Jan. Abstracts for posters and presentations due 3rd of March.



Regards

Chris

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