Dear All;I want to know how the Geo for All can arrive in developping countries
specialy in Burundi.
Yours sinerely;Libère Mudende
Le Mercredi 8 juillet 2015 16h57, Suchith Anand
<[email protected]> a écrit :
Dear All,
The agenda and timings for the various GeoforAll meetings planned at
FOSS4G-Europe Como next week are now available at [1]. Thanks to Charlie for
taking lead on this and Helena for getting our lab list updated.
The Agenda is very packed and covers all key topics. We are hoping to have
telemeeting facility so those who are not at Como can connect remotely to the
meeting. The second BOF on Friday, will be discussing GeoForAll expansion to
schools and teacher training is important and timely. I am sure we will make
good progress on this with the momentum that we are creating.
There are currently 8 members that are outside academia (government, industry,
NGO) in our lab list wiki table .Our AB is discussing ideas on how we engage
more with Industry, Government etc for the future. It is good to discuss and
decide how we want to proceed.
Do we want to exclude all these 8 organisations who all have contributed for
"Geo for All" just because they are from government/industry etc OR is this a
great opportunity to think of ideas of how we can engage more with Governments,
Industry etc and get them more involved in "Geo for All" [2] . The key essence
of ICA-OSGeo MoU was to developing on a global basis collaboration
opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in open
source GIS software and data and we should enable that NOT create artificial
barriers.
One simple solution is putting all Government/Industry/NGO etc in a separate
table as "Geo for All" -Government, Industry, NGO Partners" and this will
enable more government, Industry etc to join and support our mission. Only
academic/university/school labs will be allowed to use ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS title.
The applications from those interested to join as supporters/partners from
Industry, Government etc will have to be through the various regional chairs as
with universities/colleages/schools .
"Geo for All" -Government, Industry, NGO Partners
* French Space Agency CNES [Government]
* IGN- France [Government]
* Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP Montevideo Uruguay
[Government]
* GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State La Paz Bolivia [Government]
* National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences Egypt
[Government]
* Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) [NGO]
* ISRIC - World Soil Information Foundation Wageningen The
Netherlands [NGO]
* Birds Eye View GIS USA [Industry]
Also one thing that i noticed while looking through the labs lists, is the
cross fertilisation of activities from universities/industry happening. For
example, the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich [3] is linked with
SourcePole [4] and hopefully this will inspire more university labs to expand
collaborations with industry and also help their students to create more
startups in the future. I was looking at OSGeo UK Chapter and there are many
SMEs in the UK doing training [5] etc in this and we need to think of ways to
engage with them not just in UK but globally.
As more and more government organisations, local authorities rapidly move to
QGIS and other Open source solutions for enhanced efficiency and lower costs ,
one of the disadvantages till now had been lack of support services and an
ecosystem at the local level which is in fact the BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY for SMEs
and startups to fill in and expand OSGeo ecosystem. There should be a strong
ecosystem (universities, local government, SMEs etc) to enable create
conditions for many small RedHat [6] opportunities to be created in Open
Geospatial ecosystem worldwide , so that there will be lot of jobs creation as
well as innovation opportunities.
So i have requested all AB members to provide their ideas /suggestions on this
, so that Charlie, Helena and others can use the info. in our discussions at
Como to help us find the best way forward.
Best wishes,
Suchith
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda
[2] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-July/001846.html
[3] http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html
[4] http://www.sourcepole.com
[5] http://www.osgeo.org/uk/training_providers
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
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