[Portugal] Fwd: Invitation to "Geo for All" region wise and thematic groups

[Artur Gil]

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Colleagues,

On behalf of  "Geo for All"  http://www.geoforall.org , we are pleased
to inform that  Region wise and Subject wise Thematic groups are now
established and we welcome you to join us.

Following inputs from the "Geo for All" community we decided to have
new Regional chairs to help us accommodate our expansion plans. Also
this helps us to arrange meetings of the regional research labs
coinciding with the FOSS4G regional conferences now fully established
for accelerating research and teaching collaborations between our labs
. For example FOSS4G-Europe  http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ for our
European labs ; FOSS4G NA https://2015.foss4g-na.org for our North
American labs, FOSS4G-Asia http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2014/ for our
Asian labs etc.

With the region wise thematic groups established, the chairs of these
are now the contact points for any new labs to be established in that
region to contact and the mailing list becomes the first point of
contact for the new members and all regional members in the region can
use the list for collaborating on regional funding calls, FOSS4G local
conferences etc.  This way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets
local/region requirements/needs. The criteria for membership for
ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs are at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

North America Region
Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
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http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-northamerica
Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_North_America
Email: cschweik  pubpol.umass.edu; hmitaso  ncsu.edu; pdavis  delmar.edu

South America Region
Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_South_America
Email: sergio.acostaylara  mtop.gub.uy; silvanacamboim  gmail.com

Africa Region
Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa)
and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)
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http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa
Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Africa
Email: bridget  afrispatial.co.za; serenacoetzee  gmail.com;
ranyaalsayed  gmail.com

Asia Region (including Australia)
Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
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http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-asiaaustralia
Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Asia
Email: raghavan  media.osaka-cu.ac.jp; Tuongthuy.Vu  nottingham.edu.my

Europe Region
Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Anne Ghilsa (Germany)
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http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-europe
Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Europe
Email: maria.brovelli  polimi.it; a.ghisla  gmail.com

Thematics: Subjects/Language

Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic
Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)
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http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience
Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
Email: cpettit  unimelb.edu.au; patrick.hogan  nasa.gov

Teacher Training & School Education thematic
Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland) and Adrian Manning (UK)
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http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-teachertraining
Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation
Email: j.d.w.m  btinternet.com; ela  gridw.pl

Spanish thematic
Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)
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http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-spanish
Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish
Email: sergio.acostaylara  mtop.gub.uy; aperezn  uoc.edu

We invite all of you who are interested in different regions are
welcome to join the specific mail list to build local collaborations
and directly contact the regional chairs for new applications for
establishing ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS  Research labs in universities worldwide
to build Open Principles in  Geo Education.

Best wishes,

Suchith Anand