[UN] Fwd: Re: Establishment of the UN-GGIM Working Group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters

Wed Jan 6 08:01:25 PST 2016

Dear all,
Following request for interest and discussion with Shangee I will like to
offer to co-chair togheter with Maria the UN committee.

If you agree I will be committed to work with you do for inspiring the open
source adoption in UN related works and in disaster mitigation.

Best
Maxi
Il 05/Gen/2016 19:13, "Sanghee Shin" <shshin at gaia3d.com> ha scritto:

> Dear Maxi,
>
> Great to hear that you’d like to co-chair UN committee. Please share your
> intention to lead UN committee through UN committee list. I think all will
> agree with you.
>
> I also hope Maxi act as a liaison person to UN-GGIM or UNGIS team to
> handle MOU/letter exchange for the time being or permanently(?). According
> to Mr. Eom’s last email, his team has a plan to have  'Open Source
> Geospatial Solution WorkShop’ at Brindisi, Italia around this February or
> March. He wants to have some OSGeo board members or experts there to
> discuss future cooperation. So, we need to move quickly I think.
>
> Please share your thought on this.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> 신상희
> ---
> Shin, Sanghee
> Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
> http://www.gaia3d.com
>
> 2016. 1. 6., 오전 10:20, Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
> 작성:
>
> I will be happy to co-chair with maria.
>
> Best
> (Still from holidays)
>
> Maxi
> Il 05/Gen/2016 16:33, "Sanghee Shin" <shshin at gaia3d.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Dear Arnulf and All,
>>
>> First of all thanks Arnulf for your leading this.
>>
>> I’ve contacted Mr. Eom around 10 days ago about this and I got several
>> documents from Mr. Eom.  I’ll forward all those to board private list and
>> Arnulf as well. Sorry for my late forwarding this, I’ve just awakened from
>> long holidays.
>>
>> There are 2 things we need to handle, I think.
>>
>> 1. MOU or exchanging letter with UN
>> - This should be done by board level, I think
>>
>> 2. Appoint new UN committee chair
>> - Maria showed her intention to lead UN committee, if nobody volunteer
>> this role
>>
>> Please share you idea on this.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> 신상희
>> ---
>> Shin, Sanghee
>> Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
>> http://www.gaia3d.com
>>
>> > 2016. 1. 5., 오후 9:20, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) <arnulf at osgeo.org> 작성:
>> >
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>> > Folks,
>> > all the best for the New Year!
>> >
>> > The attached is a draft MoU from UNGIS which ended on my desk through
>> > the interim forwarding of the president's mail address. I chose to not
>> > send it to the public board list because it is in draft state. Can you
>> > please put the MoU with UNGIS on your agenda and send me a confirmation
>> > that you received it?
>> >
>> > Kyoung-Soo is informed (mail forthcoming). Please feel free to directly
>> > contact him. It would be great if you could add me to the CC so that I
>> > know that you have picked up the ball.
>> >
>> > Please note that I do not receive board-priv mails.
>> >
>> > Thanks and best regards,
>> > Arnulf
>> >
>> > - -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> > Subject:      Re: Establishment of the UN-GGIM Working Group on
>> Geospatial
>> > Information and Services for Disasters
>> > Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:36:59 -0500
>> > From:         Kyoung-Soo Eom <eom at un.org>
>> > To:   president at osgeo.org <president at osgeo.org>, Jeff McKenna
>> > <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Dear Jeff,
>> >
>> > I though my reply email below (dated 30 October) was not delivered since
>> > I used different your email and do not hear from you to my reply below.
>> >
>> > Attached please find a draft letter prepared in November but not
>> > forwarded to you since I was awaiting your reply below.
>> > Please review and advise.
>> >
>> > Kind Regards,
>> >
>> >
>> > Kyoung-Soo Eom
>> > Chief Geospatial Information Section (formerly Cartographic Section)
>> > Information & Communications Technology Division (ICTD)
>> > Department of Field Support (DFS)
>> > United Nations
>> >
>> > Tel: +1 (212) 963-0221
>> > email: eom at un.org
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From:        Kyoung-Soo Eom/NY/UNO
>> > To:        "president at osgeo.org" <president at osgeo.org>
>> > Date:        30/10/2015 04:34 PM
>> > Subject:        Re: Establishment of the UN-GGIM Working Group on
>> > Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
>> > -
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >
>> > Dear Jeff,
>> >
>> > Many thanks for your kind update on such a good news.
>> > I am so glad to hear that OSGeo has established a new committee to focus
>> > on working with UN (UNGIS and UN-GGIM, I guess).
>> > We are also discussed internally and it is very welcomed by our communit
>> > y.
>> >
>> > In regard to the exchange of official letters for partnership, while we
>> > are also preparing a draft letter from my end, it would be a good idea
>> > for you to prepare a draft letter so that we can exchange the draft and
>> > review each other to come up with common areas of interest.
>> >
>> > Kind Regards,
>> >
>> > Kyoung-Soo Eom
>> > Chief Geospatial Information Section (formerly Cartographic Section)
>> > Information & Communications Technology Division (ICTD)
>> > Department of Field Support (DFS)
>> > United Nations
>> >
>> > Tel: +1 (212) 963-0221
>> > email: eom at un.org
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From:        Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
>> > To:        Kyoung-Soo Eom <eom at un.org>
>> > Date:        30/10/2015 03:47 PM
>> > Subject:        Re: Establishment of the UN-GGIM Working Group on
>> > Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
>> > -
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Kyoung-Soo,
>> >
>> > I just wanted to send you an update with good news, that the OSGeo Board
>> > is very interested in working with the UN-GGIM and has approved a new
>> > committee at its last board meeting, to focus on working with the UN.
>> > This is an important step I feel, in our relationship.
>> >
>> > I would also like to speak with you about making our relationship more
>> > formal, through the exchange of official letters that you spoke of in
>> > Seoul.  Maybe I could draft a letter and send it to you for review, let
>> > me know if that is a good plan.
>> >
>> > Please have a nice weekend,
>> >
>> > - -jeff
>> >
>> >
>> > - --
>> > Jeff McKenna
>> > President, OSGeo
>> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
>> >
>> >
>> >
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