Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll

[Suchith Anand]

Thank you Kiringai. I also fully agree on the need to bring together ideas to 
support RUFORUM [1] to develop the curriculum as the next step forward. We have 
many options to make this happen. I suggest that we explore the GODAN Capacity 
Building Working Group (as the focus is on Agriculture ) for more ideas and 
action plan for this . GeoForAll can also provide inputs for the curriculum 
from GIS side. I am ccing the GODAN Capacity Development WG so we all can work 
together and build synergies.

Isaura, Imma – may I request that you invite Kiringai for a telemeeting so we 
can discuss ideas further and build synergies with GODAN WG activities. Thanks.

I also request other colleagues to please come forward and provide your 
inputs/ideas . Thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] http://www.ruforum.org




From: Kiringai Kamau 
Sent: 16 November 2016 1:35 PM
To: Anand Suchith
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; Prof. S.G. Kiama; Dr. 
John Mburu; Nampala, Paul; Ann Rose Mwangi; Dhairya Pujara; Muchiri Nyaggah
Subject: Re: AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural 
Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll

Happy GIS Day Suchith,

The GIS Think Tank is fired to do good for Africa. We want to grow our 
centralized data, more so if we can achieve this from a localized country data 
which mirrored can provide a huge database for what the AU and CAADP through 
the Malabo Declaration calls the evidence driven decision making.

With data, our decision making will be fast, efficient, effective and no doubts 
sustainable. We are taking the very first step of faith by working together. 
The 86+ university members of the RUFORUM will benefit from the combined 
thinking of this forum that is as rich as our combined resourcefulness. We now 
seek to tap from this and grow Africa's resourcefulness. Mapped, it will be the 
largest resource that makes all of us learn from what they can see rather than 
hearing of the same.

We need to take the first step of helping RUFORUM develop the curriculum so 
anyone with ideas where the financial support for RUFORUM can come so that they 
can call us together to think jointly on the curriculum, if the GODAN Capacity 
Building Working Group can organize an online curriculum thinking forum to 
create a framework that will guide what we do next, if they are slow and OSGeo 
wants to lead us to take the first baby steps on this...we at CANIS are willing 
to convene the thinking from an Africa perspective to ensure we follow closely 
and driven the agenda.

I am open to ideas on how we can move this agenda forward and would love if our 
mentor Suchith can throw some light on this.

Happy GIS Day to you all.

Kiringai

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Suchith Anand 
> wrote:
Dear Kiringai,

Thank you for these excellent updates. Your collaborations with RUFORUM to 
further accelerate open data on agriculture and nutrition by establishing a 
truly ICT4Ag driven degree program is truly remarkable. This will help make 
this benefit the whole Africa and wider world. I believe the time for Geo 
Spatial Driven Africa has arrived and this momentum created will bring long 
term benefits not only to Africa but to the wider world.

You and colleagues in Africa are now part of OSGeo -the world’s largest 
Geospatial ecosystem , so you have full access to the huge network of 
collaborators from governments, industry , universities, NGOs globally that you 
can connect  to  expand your programs rapidly . Open innovation is key in 
driving Digital Economy opportunities and we are determined to make sure that 
everyone benefits .

Open Data developments are exciting but what is the point of all these open 
data if we have to buy high cost properitery software licences to make use of 
the data. This is esp. big issue for colleagues in developing countries where 
cost is a big factor. So I really hope the short courses and curriculum you 
develop will have open principles at the core so that it is scaleable , 
sustainable and contribute to open innovation.

I wish you all the success and best wishes in your aim to creating a Geo 
Spatial Driven Africa which brings benefits for everyone.

Happy GIS Day 2016.

Best wishes,

Suchith



From: Kiringai Kamau >
Sent: 11 November 2016 3:30 AM
To: Anand Suchith
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; 
geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; Prof. S.G. Kiama; 
Dr. John Mburu; Nampala, Paul; Ann Rose Mwangi; Dhairya Pujara; Muchiri Nyaggah
Subject: Re: AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural 
Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll

Thanks Suchith for this!

We are excited about the possibilities that are 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Open Source report card needed from all

[Suchith Anand]

Thank you Antony and Boundless for your prompt action. We greatly appreciate 
your commitment to open source  and your intention to produce a report card at 
least once a year going forward.

The momentum for Openness that is happening from all directions is truly 
amazing and beyond even our own expectations.  The shift has already happened. 
My thank you to everyone who is working for this. 

Best wishes,

Suchith




From: Anthony Calamito 
Sent: 16 November 2016 1:51 PM
To: Anand Suchith; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Open Source report card needed from all

Suchith,

Happy GIS Day to you and all GIS users around the globe!

Boundless wishes to thank YOU for encouraging all organizations to participate 
in this task, as our decision to create an open source report card was based in 
part by your call to action.  We believe this to be a great way for
organizations to document their commitment to open source, and you can expect 
Boundless to create these at least once a year going forward.

Warm regards,
Anthony

Anthony Calamito
Chief Evangelist | Boundless
acalam...@boundlessgeo.com
202-827-0293 (office)
919-346-6825 (cell)
@GeoCalamito; @BoundlessGeo

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From: GeoForAll  on behalf of Suchith Anand 

Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 8:24 AM
To: "discuss@lists.osgeo.org" , 
"geofor...@lists.osgeo.org" 
Subject: [Geo4All] Open Source report card needed from all

Happy GIS Day

I just came across the Open Source report card from Boundless. Thank you 
Boundless.

https://boundlessgeo.com/2016/11/boundless-open-source-report-card/

Tom and other colleagues are working to get a template setup in OSGeo [1]  
soon, so we will start inviting contributions from everyone soon. So start 
getting prepared now ☺

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation  is the world’s largest Geospatial 
ecosystem , so we welcome you to the huge network of our partners and 
collaborators globally from governments, industry , universities, NGOs 
worldwide that you can connect to  expand your ideas rapidly. Open innovation 
is key in driving Digital Economy opportunities and we are determined to make 
sure that everyone benefits.

May the FOSS be with everyone…

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org

GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source report card needed from all

[Suchith Anand]

Happy GIS Day

I just came across the Open Source report card from Boundless. Thank you 
Boundless.

https://boundlessgeo.com/2016/11/boundless-open-source-report-card/

Tom and other colleagues are working to get a template setup in OSGeo [1]  
soon, so we will start inviting contributions from everyone soon. So start 
getting prepared now :)

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation  is the world's largest Geospatial 
ecosystem , so we welcome you to the huge network of our partners and 
collaborators globally from governments, industry , universities, NGOs 
worldwide that you can connect to  expand your ideas rapidly. Open innovation 
is key in driving Digital Economy opportunities and we are determined to make 
sure that everyone benefits.

May the FOSS be with everyone...

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org

GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science

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[OSGeo-Discuss] ODK and Geoserver

[Ravi Kumar]

Dear All,
a cities website using OSGeo tools for society wishes to add on
ODKaggregate for crowdsourcing.

mana-rajahmundry.org runs Tomcat7 on port 8181 with Geoserver.

Have installed ODKaggregate on the same UBUNTU14 system, using Port 8181.

ODKaggregate is not running and issuing an error.

Earlier I have used port 8080 for ODKaggregate and it was running except
the forms downloaded on Android mobiles were not functional showing an
error, Port 8080 not reacheable..
So I re-installed ODKaggregate changing the port 8080 to 8181 and it became
worse, nothjing works.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll

[Suchith Anand]

Dear Dhairya,

Welcome to GeoForAll. We look forward to work with you and all colleagues for 
expanding Data driven agro transformation in Africa.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Dhairya Ycenter 
Sent: 11 November 2016 3:23 PM
To: Kiringai Kamau
Cc: Anand Suchith; discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; Prof. 
S.G. Kiama; Dr. John Mburu; Nampala, Paul; Ann Rose Mwangi; Muchiri Nyaggah
Subject: Re: AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural 
Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll

Hello Suchith,

Greetings from Ycenter in New York,

Thank you for sending these meeting updates.
This is so helpful for our own understanding of Data driven agro transformation 
in Africa.

Kiringai  - The young people we work with, will have so much more access to 
right tools. It's very encouraging to see the interest of so many players.

Best,
Dhairya Pujara


Dhairya Pujara
Founder CEO Ycenter
M: +1 (215) 479 1173
Philadelphia, PA, USA
>From Philadelphia to Mozambique: an Indian’s journey to create a 
>socially-impactful program

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Kiringai Kamau 
> wrote:
Thanks Suchith for this!

We are excited about the possibilities that are slowly emerging from the 
potential of creating a Geo Spatial Driven Africa. Since our ThinkTank Forum, 
we are discussing with Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in 
Agriculture (RUFORUM) and a number of other partners on how we can make data 
driven decision making the focus of the next step in creating knowledge for the 
African Food Sector.

RUFORUM is therefore collaborating with CANIS to evolve a truly ICT4Ag driven 
degree programme that will be adopted by the 80+ members of the forum to also 
drive the open data on agriculture and nutrition. We have negotiated a proposal 
with the IDRC to support the financial support to launch this initiative, but 
are looking for other partners so that this effort can move faster to 
realization.

Our thinking is that we should have the curriculum formulation going on as we 
try and evolve the research domains that IDRC is keen in supporting. The 
financial support to the Think Tank Secretariat is currently being supported by 
CANIS, VACID Africa and Y-Center Africa. We intend to run a number of other 
short courses in Design Thinking and Innovation on the use of Open Data for the 
Transformation of Agriculture  (ODATA) in Africa which we are currently 
evolving with Y-Center. Details of this will emerge as we evolve the programme. 
Anyone who knows institutions that we can work with is free to introduce the 
same to us so that we reach out to them.

The university of Nairobi has taken lead in adopting the Geospatial 
coordination perspectives of CANIS and is centralizing all its GeoSpatial 
Operations from a centralized server that has been dedicated to the model 
behind what came out of the Think Tank deliberations. Ms. Ann Rose Mwangi 
> is the linkage person on 
the coordination of the secretariat.

We look forward to inviting you all in the launch of the ODATA Programme once a 
date has been granted by the VC of the University of Nairobi on a date to be 
communicated soon.

We are and shall always remain at your disposal.

Sincerely,

Kiringai Kamau

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Suchith Anand 
> wrote:
Dear All,

We are pleased to send you the summary updates from the very successful AgriGIS 
Workshop & Think Tank meetings in Nairobi organised jointly by the The 
University of Nottingham, the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for 
Development (RCMRD), the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) 
and Crops for the Future (CFF) on October 27-28, 2016.

The objective of the event was to provide a forum for stakeholders in 
agricultural research organizations in Africa to share knowledge and propose 
strategies on improving the use of  open data, open educational resources , 
free and open geospatial software with the aim to expand Capacity Building and 
Training in AgriGIS to support Global Food Security.

The slides of the event  are at  
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/agrigis-kenya-slides.aspx

We thank all the participants for their inputs and contributions for the 
Think-Tank discussions which covered the following themes (details to the 
summary of each theme are available at the event website)


  *   Big challenges for Agriculture in the African context
  *   Tools (known & wish list) used for agri using satellite/remote data 
collection
  *   

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll

[Suchith Anand]

Dear Kiringai,

Thank you for these excellent updates. Your collaborations with RUFORUM to 
further accelerate open data on agriculture and nutrition by establishing a 
truly ICT4Ag driven degree program is truly remarkable. This will help make 
this benefit the whole Africa and wider world. I believe the time for Geo 
Spatial Driven Africa has arrived and this momentum created will bring long 
term benefits not only to Africa but to the wider world.

You and colleagues in Africa are now part of OSGeo -the world’s largest 
Geospatial ecosystem , so you have full access to the huge network of 
collaborators from governments, industry , universities, NGOs globally that you 
can connect  to  expand your programs rapidly . Open innovation is key in 
driving Digital Economy opportunities and we are determined to make sure that 
everyone benefits .

Open Data developments are exciting but what is the point of all these open 
data if we have to buy high cost properitery software licences to make use of 
the data. This is esp. big issue for colleagues in developing countries where 
cost is a big factor. So I really hope the short courses and curriculum you 
develop will have open principles at the core so that it is scaleable , 
sustainable and contribute to open innovation.

I wish you all the success and best wishes in your aim to creating a Geo 
Spatial Driven Africa which brings benefits for everyone.

Happy GIS Day 2016.

Best wishes,

Suchith



From: Kiringai Kamau 
Sent: 11 November 2016 3:30 AM
To: Anand Suchith
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; Prof. S.G. Kiama; Dr. 
John Mburu; Nampala, Paul; Ann Rose Mwangi; Dhairya Pujara; Muchiri Nyaggah
Subject: Re: AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural 
Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll

Thanks Suchith for this!

We are excited about the possibilities that are slowly emerging from the 
potential of creating a Geo Spatial Driven Africa. Since our ThinkTank Forum, 
we are discussing with Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in 
Agriculture (RUFORUM) and a number of other partners on how we can make data 
driven decision making the focus of the next step in creating knowledge for the 
African Food Sector.

RUFORUM is therefore collaborating with CANIS to evolve a truly ICT4Ag driven 
degree programme that will be adopted by the 80+ members of the forum to also 
drive the open data on agriculture and nutrition. We have negotiated a proposal 
with the IDRC to support the financial support to launch this initiative, but 
are looking for other partners so that this effort can move faster to 
realization.

Our thinking is that we should have the curriculum formulation going on as we 
try and evolve the research domains that IDRC is keen in supporting. The 
financial support to the Think Tank Secretariat is currently being supported by 
CANIS, VACID Africa and Y-Center Africa. We intend to run a number of other 
short courses in Design Thinking and Innovation on the use of Open Data for the 
Transformation of Agriculture  (ODATA) in Africa which we are currently 
evolving with Y-Center. Details of this will emerge as we evolve the programme. 
Anyone who knows institutions that we can work with is free to introduce the 
same to us so that we reach out to them.

The university of Nairobi has taken lead in adopting the Geospatial 
coordination perspectives of CANIS and is centralizing all its GeoSpatial 
Operations from a centralized server that has been dedicated to the model 
behind what came out of the Think Tank deliberations. Ms. Ann Rose Mwangi 
> is the linkage person on 
the coordination of the secretariat.

We look forward to inviting you all in the launch of the ODATA Programme once a 
date has been granted by the VC of the University of Nairobi on a date to be 
communicated soon.

We are and shall always remain at your disposal.

Sincerely,

Kiringai Kamau

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Suchith Anand 
> wrote:
Dear All,

We are pleased to send you the summary updates from the very successful AgriGIS 
Workshop & Think Tank meetings in Nairobi organised jointly by the The 
University of Nottingham, the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for 
Development (RCMRD), the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) 
and Crops for the Future (CFF) on October 27-28, 2016.

The objective of the event was to provide a forum for stakeholders in 
agricultural research organizations in Africa to share knowledge and propose 
strategies on improving the use of  open data, open educational resources , 
free and open geospatial software with the aim to expand Capacity Building and 
Training in AgriGIS to support Global Food Security.

The slides of the event  are at