[Pacific] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Geospatial Science

[Edwin Liava'a]

Hi All,

This is a major leap by advocates of "Geo for All". The key academic
objective of establishing an Open Geospecial Science as a decipline
has been successfully established.

I for one has been trying to establish an Open Source Geospatial Lab
here in Fiji but since I am not affiliated with any University, I am
not eligible to move forward with it.

And this is why, I am bringing this up, hoping USP, FNU or any other
University within our Pacific Islands region will take this
opportunity.

Best regards to yall.

cheers,

Ed

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:07 AM
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Geospatial Science
To: "discuss at lists.osgeo.org" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>,
"ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org" <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>


Colleagues,

One of the key academic objectives of "Geo for All" is to firmly
establish Open Geospatial Science as a discipline (academic journals,
journal special issues etc) and thanks to our excellent academic
colleagues we were able to achieve this in a very short time.

For example, the Open Access ISPRS International Journal of
Geo-Information special issue on Open Geospatial Science and
Applications  (which is now getting ready) is aimed for this.
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications

Please note  that for  the special issue on Open Geospatial Science
and Applications that we are editing (myself, Thierry, Barend, Serena,
Franz-Josef, Luciene)  , the call for papers has been closed in Feb
2015 and we are NO LONGER accepting any new submissions. I thank ISPRS
and the publishers for waiving the  article processing charges for all
articles published in this Open access journal for our special issue.

But there are many other opportunities now for those interested to
consider, for example the new Open Access Springer journal on Open
Geospatial Data, Software and Standards. Details  at
http://www.opengeospatialdata.com/

I also understand that many other GIS journals are also planning
regular Special Issues on Open GIScience, so there are lot of other
journals you can submit your research.

We will be discussing this at FOSS4G Europe -2015 to see how we can
ensure that the Academic Tracks at the various FOSS4G and various GIS
conferences with Open GIScience tracks  globally  can be better
streamlined for specific journals and how we can rapidly advance the
discipline.

It is very essential that we continue establishing and expanding Open
Source Geospatial Labs in universities worldwide to build firm
foundations to rapidly expand the discipline. We are now actively
working to further enable Openness in Geospatial Education (expand
university programs through our labs worldwide, MOOCs through
GeoAcademy  , PhD summer schools in both Open GIS and Geospatial Data
, training programs for School teachers etc), so we are able to train
and develop a new generation of  geospatial scientists globally. We
believe in empowering people with spatial decision making tools to
help build a better society for all of humanity.

As part of our next stage of expansion of "Geo for All", we want to
focus on using the Open Geospatial Labs that we are building in
universities worldwide to expand research by bringing together
colleagues from other departments in the universities for expanding in
 three key areas where there is Big Data focus in research and
development (Urban Data Science , Transport Science & Applications ,
Environment and Climate Science ). This will help  expand our
established research labs and to establish new research labs in
universities worldwide in Urban Science , Transport, Environment
themes building on Open Principles (Open Data, Open Software, Open
standards, Open Access to Research publications etc).  For new
universities who wish to establish Open Geospatial Labs focussing on
any of these research themes, we would be happy to hear from you and
you can contact our regional chairs for details at
http://www.geoforall.org/

I had good discussions today with Charlie who will be leading the
GeoforAll meetings at FOSS4G 2015- Europe, Como, Italy
http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/    (July 14th-17th, 2015 ) to discuss
and plan future ideas for our expansion.

Combining the potential of  Free and Open Source software, Open
Standards, Open Data, Open Education Resources, we are now offering
education opportunities to nurture and develop Open Minds in students
globally for a better planet and better future for all.

We look forward to working with all in expanding Open Geospatial Science.

Best wishes,

Suchith



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