[Pacific] Fwd: [OSGeo-Edu] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched - FOSS4G2013

[Edwin Liava'a]

Hi All,

Forwarding here updates from FOSS4G2013 initiatives.

Interesting to see focus on FOSS for Education, Open Geodata and on
Cartographic and Geospatial Research. Read more on forwarded email
below....

How about us in the Pacific?

cheers,

Edwin
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De: "Suchith Anand" <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Para: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org, discuss at lists.osgeo.org, "edu
discuss" <edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org>,
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Enviados: Domingo, 22 de Septiembre 2013 19:37:57
Asunto: [Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All" education mission is now launched

Dear All,

FOSS4G 2013 has been a great success (28 Workshops, 180
Presentations., 833 delegates  ) thanks to the countless hours of
efforts put in by our dedicated volunteers. Special thanks to our team
members Abi, Addy, Antony, Barend, Barry, Claire, Franz-Josef, Jeremy,
Jo, IanH, IanE, Mark, Matt, Rollo and Steven who not only made FOSS4G
2013 http://2013.foss4g.org/about-foss4g/committee/  a great success
but also has given firm foundation for the "Geo for All" Education
initiative .  We also launched OSGeo Live 7.0 at FOSS4G 2013 in
Nottingham. Thanks to the selfless efforts and dedication of hundreds
of volunteers worldwide that help make this excellent resource
possible for the benefit of the wider community . Details at
http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html  Having free and open GI software
is key for making possible for students in developing and poor
countries  to be also able to get geospatial education (without the
need for high cost  proprietary GI software ) and OSGeo Liv
 e is cen
 tral to our education efforts. Our Education Team will now with full
dedication and focus will carry on the "Geo for All" initiative to all
across the world. Our key aim is to make it possible for students in
developing and poor countries  to be also able to get geospatial
education. By 2015, we will  have 50 Open Source Geospatial Labs
established in universities in Africa alone and they will all be
teaching GIS courses to hundreds of students. We also will be starting
work on "Train the Trainer" GIS program for school teachers all over
the world.

We also launched our latest ICA-OSGeo research lab in Switzerland at
ETH Zurich at FOSS4G 2013 . The Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at
ETH Zurich is part is part of the Institute of Cartography and
Geoinformation, chair of Cartography . Details at
http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/karto/index_EN
The preceding Institute of Cartography was founded in 1925 by
Professor Eduard Imhof, one of the main founders of modern academic
cartography. It is therefore the oldest university institute in
cartography world-wide. In 2011, with the establishment of the new
chair of Geoinformation Engineering, the scope of activities of the
institute was expanded and its name was adapted. In cartography, the
institute strives to maintain its leading position in topographic
cartography (relief representation), thematic cartography, and atlas
cartography (school atlases, national atlases) by exploiting and
further developing cartographic knowledge and adapting it to new
interactive technologies and application domains. Geoinformation
Engineering aims at analyzing, representing, modelling, and
visualizing spatio-temporal decision processes and integrates such
models in mobile geoinformation services and spatial information
technologies.It also aims to provide support for increasing the number
  and qua
 lity of open source teaching and training materials for Cartography
and GIS. As a proud member of the ICA-OSGeo Network , the ETH Zurich
OSGL is focusing on Education, Open Geodata and on Cartographic and
Geospatial Research. The lab website at
http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html

Thanks to the momentum build by FOSS4G 2013, we have got many new
applications from  universities in this week alone for establishing
research labs, so we are well in track to keep bringing investment for
staff and infrastructure to  establish over 100 research labs in
universities world wide by Sep 2014 (the time of the next  FOSS4G
conference ).  We  will be  now working to setup a brand new website
for our rapidly  expanding education initiative and take this to the
next level.

Once again many thanks to all of you who helped for making FOSS4G 2013
a great success. Without all of your help, we would not have been able
to make this possible. Also thanks to all volunteers who made and kept
their pledges at FOSS4G 2013  http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/pledge/


Best wishes,

Suchith (on behalf of "Geo for All" Team of FOSS4G 2013
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