[UN] Follow up from the UN openGIS initiative

Fri Mar 11 23:13:45 PST 2016

Thanks Suchith for your kind words. I see a lot of potentiality for G4A 
and UN.
Please, I want also to advertise about the seminar that Dr. Kyong-Soo 
Eom will give on Monday afternoon 3:30 CET time.

For people close to Milan, you can register here

https://www.eventi.polimi.it/#geospatial

The event will be also avialble in streaming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqKblSZUBd0

Nice weekend!
Maria

Il 11/03/2016 22:47, Suchith Anand ha scritto:
> Thank you Maxi and Maria for this excellent efforts. This is really 
> strategic for us and i am really pleased to see this developments.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
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> *From:* UN [un-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Massimiliano 
> Cannata [massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 11, 2016 1:50 PM
> *To:* un at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [UN] Follow up from the UN openGIS initiative
>
> 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.
>
>
> Brief of the workshop
> -----------------------------
>
> 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).
>
> 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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>
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