Many thanks to Nikos and all for their efforts and contributions for the second edition of our newsletter. It is now available to download at http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/<http://www.geoforall.org/>
We would like to invite articles from Industry , Universities/Education, Startups, NGOs, Governments on examples of how Open Geospatial Software and Open Data is empowering them and created many new opportunities for "Geo for All" newsletters. * Examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Geospatial Industry * Examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Startups * Examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Universities/Education * Examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Government organisations * Examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for NGOs We are esp. interested to hear from government organisations/regional/local authorities on how Open source GIS software helped the local authorities and various government departments in reducing huge annual licence fee costs for proprietary software and the taxpayers as a whole benifitted from cost efficiencies, reduce the cost of lock-in to suppliers and products. Now imagine the costs for not just one year but in the future 5, 10 , 25 years. The savings will be billions of dollars of taxpayers money globally which can be invested by governments in education, healthcare etc [1] So please do send examples of how Open Source Geospatial and Open Data is empowering and creating new opportunities from Geospatial Industry, Startups, Education, NGOs, Government organisations to our chief editor of "Geo for All" newsletter -Dr. Nikos Lambrinos, Dept. of Primary Education Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ( Email - labrinos at eled.auth.gr<http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs> ) Best wishes, Suchith [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-August/001993.html ________________________________ From: labri...@eled.auth.gr [labri...@eled.auth.gr] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 6:37 AM To: 'Suchith Anand' Cc: labri...@eled.auth.gr Subject: Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 2 - September 2015 Dear all, The new issue of our Newsletter is ready for downloading from our website (http://www.geoforall.org/). If you have any comments please don’t hesitate to email me. Also, if you have any news, information or anything that you want to share with the wider community please send it to me (Chief Editor: labri...@eled.auth.gr<mailto:labri...@eled.auth.gr>) Thank you very much Nikos --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Nikos Lambrinos Associate Professor Dept. of Primary Education Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Greece, GR-54124 Tel. +30 2310 991201 Email: labri...@eled.auth.gr Web pages: http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/ http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This 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.
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