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

Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli at polimi.it
Wed Jan 6 10:42:58 PST 2016


Thanks a lot Maxi. It will be great to work together on that! and 
luckily for us, Brindisi is in Italy ;-)

Best.
Maria


Il 06/01/2016 17:01, massimiliano cannata ha scritto:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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 <http://www.gaia3d.com/>
>>
>>         > 2016. 1. 5., 오후 9:20, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
>>         <arnulf at osgeo.org <mailto:arnulf at osgeo.org>> 작성:
>>         >
>>         > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>         > Hash: SHA1
>>         >
>>         > 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 <mailto:eom at un.org>>
>>         > To: president at osgeo.org <mailto:president at osgeo.org>
>>         <president at osgeo.org <mailto:president at osgeo.org>>, Jeff McKenna
>>         > <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>>         <mailto: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 <mailto:eom at un.org>
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > From:        Kyoung-Soo Eom/NY/UNO
>>         > To:        "president at osgeo.org
>>         <mailto:president at osgeo.org>" <president at osgeo.org
>>         <mailto: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 <mailto:eom at un.org>
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > From:        Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>>         <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
>>         > To:        Kyoung-Soo Eom <eom at un.org <mailto: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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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
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