On behalf of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and the International Cartographic Association, i am pleased to announce about the Open Source Geospatial Lab initiative in Africa. After the successful establishment of Open Geospatial Labs in Europe and Asia , we are happy to have the first such initiative in Africa being established at Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa under the leadership and vision of Dr Serena Coetzee. Serena has strong research background in Geospatial Science, SDI and GI standards. Her research details at http://www.cs.up.ac.za/cs/scoetzee/index.htm
Not only is the Centre for Geoinformation Science at the University of Pretoria http://www.up.ac.za/cgis already doing excellent undergraduate and postgraduate teaching using various open geospatial software but also many of thier postgraduate students are either using FOSS4G in their research or contributing to FOSS4G. These students will become the future leaders of Geospatial Science from Africa and contribute for the development of our discipline and the wider community. Open Geospatial Technologies are the key enablers for helping to provide the benefits of geospatial science to the wider community globally (especially in poor countries) and we look forward to all of your participation for building up our efforts in this. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Nottingham Geospatial Institute Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham Tel: (0)115 82 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ Leading Open Geospatial Science through ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divideThis message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation._______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
