[Portugal] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data in empowering people and organisations and creating new opportunities

[Artur Gil]

O Suchith Anand será um dos oradores convidados do SASIG 2015 a decorrer no
ISCTE, em Lisboa, nos próximos dias 24 e 25 de Setembro. A não perder!
Inscrições em: http://osgeopt.pt/sasig2015/

Cumprimentos
AG

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*De:* Suchith Anand

We would like invite articles from Industry , Universities/Education,
Startups, NGOs,  Governments  on examples of how Open Geospatial Software
and Open Data is empowering them and created many new opportunities for
"Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org/   newsletters.

Even proprietary GIS vendors and their business partners make huge use of
and rely heavily on open source for their business[1] . That is true
empowerment and we want to get more examples from the wider community for
our newsletter

* Examples of  Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating
new opportunities for Geospatial Industry
* Examples of  Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating
new opportunities for Startups
* Examples of  Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating
new opportunities for Universities/Education
* Examples of  Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering  and
creating new opportunities for Government organisations
* Examples of  Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating
new opportunities for NGOs

We are esp. interested to hear from government organisations/regional/local
authorities on  how Open source GIS software helped the local authorities
and various government departments in reducing huge annual licence fee
costs for proprietary  software and the taxpayers as a whole benifitted
from cost efficiencies,  reduce the cost of lock-in to suppliers and
products. Now imagine the costs for  not just one year but in the future 5,
10 , 25 years. The savings will be billions of dollars of taxpayers money
globally which can be invested by governments in  education, healthcare etc.

As more and more government organisations, national, regional and local
authorities rapidly move to QGIS and other Open source solutions for
enhanced efficiency and lower costs , there is a need for support services
and an ecosystem at the local level which is in fact the BIGGEST
OPPORTUNITY for SMEs and startups  to fill in .  There should be a strong
ecosystem (universities, local government, SMEs etc)  to enable create
conditions  for  many  new opportunities [2]  to be created in Open
Geospatial ecosystem  , so that there will be lot of jobs creation as well
as innovation opportunities. So examples from Startups in OSGeo ecosystem
are very welcome. There is already a great list of service providers of
OSGeo ecosystem and this is just the start.

So please do send examples of how Open Source Geospatial and Open Data is
empowering and creating new opportunities from Geospatial Industry,
Startups, Education, NGOs, Government organisations to our chief editor of
"Geo for All" newsletter -Dr. Nikos Lambrinos, Dept. of Primary Education
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (  Email -
labrinos  eled.auth.gr )

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1]
http://www.gogeomatics.ca/magazine/osgeo-presents-geo-for-all-initiative-may-30-ottawa-social.htm
[2]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
[3] http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1
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