[UN] From Deqing (First UN World Geospatial Information Congress)

Sun Nov 18 22:14:51 PST 2018

+1 for Maria's request. OSGeo needs to make its strong presence  at this very important UNGGIM activities . The OSGeo UN committee was formed to make sure we also have a voice in the system.

Thank you Maria for your proactive role in this. We need to support our volunteers who are doing their best to provide OSGeo a voice and platform on this UN forum.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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Subject: Re: [UN] From Deqing (First UN World Geospatial Information Congress)

Dear Maria,

I support your request. It is important for OSGeo to have a presence at the Congress. I am not aware of any delegates to the Congress being funded by the UN; delegates are typically funded by the governments/organizations who they present here, or they fund themselves.

Regards,
Serena

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On 19 Nov 2018, at 07:58, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it<mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>> wrote:

Dear Bruce

nobody invited me. I'm part of the UN GIIM Academic Network and this is the reason why I was asked if I wanted to present something. And I decided to have a presentation where to show also the activities of the UN Committee (and GeoForAll), as we are doing a lot of work (under the name of OSGeo). It is a way of showing what we are doing. We are a partner of the UN Open GIS Initiative, we are not paid for being a partner. In this specific case, I'm paying from my pocket for showing what we are doing as OSGeo.

Are you still involved in some UN project? Which project? Can you share your activities with the other people on the list? It could be of interest of everybody to know which activities are going on under the umbrella of OSGeo.

Many thanks!

Best

Maria

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Da: Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com<mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>>
Inviato: lunedì 19 novembre 2018 00:47:13
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli
Cc: un at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:un at lists.osgeo.org>
Oggetto: Re: [UN] From Deqing (First UN World Geospatial Information Congress)

Hello Maria,

-1 from me.

For this type of meeting where the UN would like to take advantage of our/your expertise, I would expect the UN to cover travel and per diem.

This has been my experience with the UN related expert teams and similar meetings that I have been involved in.

I suggest that you ask the question of the people who have invited you.

They are probably waiting for a request for assistance.

Kind regards,

Bruce

On 19 Nov 2018, at 07:01, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it<mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>> wrote:

Dear All

The First UN World Geospatial Information Congress will start in a few hours.  I was involved in the Academic Track Session and, together with Ivana Ivanova, we are presenting a contribution about "Open Science and Education" where there is also the description of our activities related to UN Open GIS (training and UN Challenge). Moreover, GeoForAll is also presented. Our presentation is on Wednesday (Ivana will present) and we are finishing it (we need to submit it by tomorrow). We will share with you after the submission.

I have a question related to the budget. We are more or less at the end of the year and there are no more meetings of the UN Open GIS. This year I attended the two that were organized (Uganda, US), using support from OSGeo only for the former. I'm kindly asking if there is somebody who is against the fact that OSGeo supports my travel here at the UN World Geospatial Information Congress (flight and VISA, no accommodation and meal), provided that we saved some money and this money is available in the UN Committee budget of this year.

Please reply if you have comments or doubts by the end of this week.

Best,

Maria

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Please pay attention to these two opportunities:

A new IJGI Special Issue
"State-of-the-Art in Spatial Information Science"
(deadline for submissions: 1 may 2019)

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/ISPRS_2020_Nice

A new Transaction in GIS  Special Issue
"Open Source Geospatial Science, Software and Education"
(deadline for abstract submissions: 15 february 2019)
https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/assets/14679671/Open%20Geospatial%20Science%20Software%20and%20Education.pdf

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Politecnico di Milano

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