[UN] UN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1

Fri Mar 11 12:16:23 PST 2016

Thank you so much Maxi & Maria.
This offers interesting perspectives!

Have a nice weekend

Greg

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>   1. Follow up from the UN openGIS initiative (Massimiliano Cannata)
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> From: Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
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> Subject: [UN] Follow up from the UN openGIS initiative
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> Dear UN committee members,
> as you may know in the past three days Maria and I participated on the
> behalf of OSGeo to the "GeoSHAPE/Arbiter & OpenGDS Workshop" for UN OpenGIS
> initiative.
> 
> This was the result of a collaboration between UN and OSGeo which started
> in Seoul during the FOSS4G where the OSGeo board took the commitment of
> participating in the UN OpenGIS initiative.
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> 
> Brief of the workshop
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> 
> The workshop was attended by about 30 representatives from UN , member
> states, OSGeo, GeoSHAPE [1] (USA project) and OpenGDS [2] (Korean project)
> community.
> 
> This initiative intends to develop an effective and flexible open source
> solution to support the UN field missions around the globe.
> 
> The location of the workshop were Brindisi where the UN data center hosts
> the geospatial infrastructure to provide required services (currently based
> on proprietary solutions).
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> While the first two days were dedicated to the presentation of the selected
> open source software technologies ([1] & [2]), the third and fourth days
> were dedicated to define a strategy and to better understand the UN needs.
> The last day was dedicated to sum-up and workshop closing works.
> 
> During this workshop I had the opportunity to present OSGeo with its
> strategy, its community, its committees and its projects while Maria
> presented the Geo4All committee and its outreach activities.
> 
> During the meeting UN decided to adopt a spiral approach which encompass
> the development of pilot applications
> 
> The first spiral will be implemented by using the selected technologies
> which were "offered" by USA and Korea and will implement two case studies:
> - geoportal
> - data analysis
> 
> UN recognize the need to prioritize the first implementation (spiral) that
> will be strategic to further develop the initiative but at the same time
> the initiative want to be inclusive and new opportunity are appropriately
> taken into consideration.
> 
> To make it clear, unless not declared, UN is not supporting this initiative
> economically, so the participants provides their commitment on voluntary
> basis or funded by their nation.
> 
> The work will continue in the next months by analyzing the UN requirements
> and possible technical solutions.
> 
> The contributions they expect from OSGeo are:
> - expertise on open source software
> - access to the incubation process
> - bridge / connection with the private sector
> - connection with OSGeo projects
> - connection with Geo4All labs
> - support in education, research and training
> 
> Both Maria and I were included as member in the technical committee of the
> new initiative which is named UNOGeo (United Nation Open Geospatial).
> 
> I believe this is a great opportunity for OSGeo to better understand the UN
> requirements so that OSGeo projects can better implement / support UN
> mission and have in the future larger role. Moreover i think it is also
> beneficiary for the whole movement to see also the UN rely on FOSS4G, and
> on OSGeo projects as they are behind the currently selected technologies.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Massimiliano
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> [1] http://geoshape.org/
> [2] https://github.com/ODTBuilder/Builder
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> *Massimiliano Cannata*
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> Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica
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> Responsabile settore Geomatica
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