Dear all,
I am pleased to inform that Jeff McKenna and Prof. Georg Gartner as the OSGeo
and ICA Presidents have accepted all 14 nominations received from the member
labs for the Advisory Board of the Geo for All initiative.
The Advisory Board for the Geo for All initiative are as follows:
• Professor Georg Gartner (ICA President co-chair)
• Jeff McKenna (OSGeo President Co-chair)
• Professor Josef Strobl
• Professor Marguerite Madden
• Professor Mike Jackson
• Sven Schade
• Gavin Fleming
• Sergio Acosta y Lara
• Dr Chris Pettit
• Professor Venkatesh Raghavan
• Geoff Zeiss
• Jeroen Ticheler
• Phillip Davis
• Arnulf Christl
• Professor Maria Brovelli
• Dr Rafael Moreno
The ICA-OSGeo Lab network is a joint initiative of the Open Source Geospatial
Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA). The
ICA and OSGeo Presidents will be the co-chairs and permanent members of the
Advisory Board. Others will have 3 year term starting date of the Advisory
Board being constituted (1 Dec 2013). The Advisory Board has brought together
excellent range of expertise (academia, government, industry) and geographical
distribution (we have nearly all continents covered). Also it brought together
members from other key communities ISPRS, AGILE, INSPIRE, UNIGIS etc which will
make sure is it a fully inclusive global initiative. The Advisory Board will
meet once every six months by telemeeting and AB members will keep an eye on
the developments and provide strategic advice to the initiative through various
forums.
While there has been tremendous growth in geospatial technology over the last
few decades, the number of universities offering courses in geospatial science
has not kept pace. Free and open geographic information (GI) software helps
make geospatial education available to students from economically poor
backgrounds worldwide (removing the need for high cost proprietary GI
software). Our key aim is to make it possible for students in developing and
poor countries to be also able to get geospatial education.This initiative will
bring more opportunities for geospatial education worldwide.Over 50 Open Source
Geospatial Labs have already been established in universities around the world
as part of this initiative in just two year’s time, and we will be establishing
over 100 research labs worldwide by September 2014 .
We will have over 500 labs established worldwide in the next five years making
us the biggest geospatial education and research network in the planet and we
now have a good team of thought leaders to guide us for the future. Welcome
to all members of the Advisory Board and we are looking forward for their
advice and ideas for expanding this education initiative
http://www.geoforall.org/ globally.
We thank all of you for your strong support for this education initiative and
it is very happy for us that our initiative has now grown rapidly from very
humble beginnings and is helping to widen the benefits geospatial education
opportunities to thousands of students worldwide.
Best wishes,
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