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OSGEO at ISPRS2020

2018-05-25T07:24:20Z

Sanand: /* OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress */

=== OSGeo participation at XXIVth ISPRS Congress ===

==== About ====

The [http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/ XXIVth ISPRS Congress] will be 14-20. June, 2020 in Nice, France. OSGeo has [[MOU_ISPRS|MoU]] with ISPRS which includes collaboration and participation in conferences.
OSGeo was invited to organize:

- a '''Forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and Geo-Open-Data'''. The motivation of fora is to encourage strong exchanges between academia, institutions, industry, and users on important structuring subjects. The program built for the fora must cover all aspects of the theme (integrating also policy issues) and not only scientific/technical aspects.

- a '''OSGeo Pavilion''', where to group open-source companies to give them higher visibility and a stronger impact during the congress.

==== OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress ====

[[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]]

[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]]

[[User:Sanand| Suchith Anand]]

[[Category:Conference]]

User:Sanand

2018-05-25T07:20:34Z

Sanand: /* Suchith Anand */

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Suchith Anand
|JobTitle=Consultant
|Country=United Kingdom
|City=Nottingham
|Coordinate=52.9549771, -1.1511066
|LocalChapter=OSGeo UK
|Email=suchith_anand@yahoo.com
|Photo=Suchith anand.jpg
|Info=Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He volunteers for GeoForAll with a vision to make geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all and to enable a better future for everyone. He served as the founding chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Geospatial IG of Research Data Alliance. He serves in the Program Board of Group on Earth Observations (GEO). He is reviewer for European and international research council applications, and many leading GIS journals . He serves on the Editorial Board of Journal on Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards , GIS Professional . Suchith is from India and now lives in Nottingham with his wife Sajini and their son Sanjay . They all are cricket fans and love travelling.
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
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|Committee=Yes
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
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|ExBoard=No
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=Yes
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
===[[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]===

[[File:Suchith anand.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Suchith Anand]]

Consultant

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm ...more].

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]

:* Established [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1230 Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres] in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU
:* Charter member of OSGeo Foundation
:* Volunteer of OSGeo Education/GeoForAll
:* Develop and promote OSGeo Educational initiatives
:* Founder and Chair of [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx OSGIS conference series]
:* Invited speaker and presenter at United Nations and other International organisations
:* Editorial Board member of journals
:* Building synergies between OSGeo and other open education initiatives globally
:* One of the founding members of the Open Source GIS Summer School initiative and the Geospatial Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data e-learning initiative.

;Contact:
: Email: suchith_anand@yahoo.com
:

;Profile last updated: 25th May , 2018

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Sanand

2018-05-25T07:16:38Z

Sanand: /* Suchith Anand */

{{OSGeo Member
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|JobTitle=Consultant
|Country=United Kingdom
|City=Nottingham
|Coordinate=52.9549771, -1.1511066
|LocalChapter=OSGeo UK
|Email=suchith_anand@yahoo.com
|Photo=Suchith anand.jpg
|Info=Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He volunteers for GeoForAll with a vision to make geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all and to enable a better future for everyone. He served as the founding chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Geospatial IG of Research Data Alliance. He serves in the Program Board of Group on Earth Observations (GEO). He is reviewer for European and international research council applications, and many leading GIS journals . He serves on the Editorial Board of Journal on Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards , GIS Professional . Suchith is from India and now lives in Nottingham with his wife Sajini and their son Sanjay . They all are cricket fans and love travelling.
}}
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}}
===[[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]===

[[File:Suchith anand.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Suchith Anand]]

Consultant

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm ...more].

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]

:* Established [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1230 Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres] in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU
:* Charter member of OSGeo Foundation
:* Active member of OSGeo Edu
:* Develop and promote OSGeo Educational initiatives (ELOGeo)
:* Founder and Chair of [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx OSGIS conference series]
:* Invited speaker and presenter at conferences and events
:* Program Committee of many geospatial conferences
:* Building synergies between OSGeo and ICA
:* One of the founding members of the Open Source GIS Summer School initiative and the Geospatial Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data e-learning initiative.

;Contact:
: Email: suchith_anand@yahoo.com
:

;Profile last updated: 25th May , 2018

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Sanand

2018-05-25T07:14:40Z

Sanand:

{{OSGeo Member
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|JobTitle=Consultant
|Country=United Kingdom
|City=Nottingham
|Coordinate=52.9549771, -1.1511066
|LocalChapter=OSGeo UK
|Email=suchith_anand@yahoo.com
|Photo=Suchith anand.jpg
|Info=Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He volunteers for GeoForAll with a vision to make geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all and to enable a better future for everyone. He served as the founding chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Geospatial IG of Research Data Alliance. He serves in the Program Board of Group on Earth Observations (GEO). He is reviewer for European and international research council applications, and many leading GIS journals . He serves on the Editorial Board of Journal on Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards , GIS Professional . Suchith is from India and now lives in Nottingham with his wife Sajini and their son Sanjay . They all are cricket fans and love travelling.
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
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|Committee=Yes
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=Yes
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
===[[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]===

[[File:Suchith anand.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Suchith Anand]]

Consultant

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm ...more].

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]

:* Established [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1230 Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres] in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU
:* Charter member of OSGeo Foundation
:* Active member of OSGeo Edu
:* Develop and promote OSGeo Educational initiatives (ELOGeo)
:* Founder and Chair of [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx OSGIS conference series]
:* Invited speaker and presenter at conferences and events
:* Program Committee of many geospatial conferences
:* Building synergies between OSGeo and ICA
:* One of the founding members of the Open Source GIS Summer School initiative and the Geospatial Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data e-learning initiative.

;Contact:
: Email: Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk
: Phone (work): 44 (0)115 84 32750

;Profile last updated: 4th July, 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Sanand

2018-05-25T07:12:12Z

Sanand:

{{OSGeo Member
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|City=Nottingham
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|LocalChapter=OSGeo UK
|Email=suchith_anand@yahoo.com
|Photo=Suchith anand.jpg
|Info=Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm ...more].
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
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|Coder=No
|Translate=No
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|ExBoard=No
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=Yes
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
===[[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]===

[[File:Suchith anand.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Suchith Anand]]

Consultant

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm ...more].

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]

:* Established [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1230 Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres] in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU
:* Charter member of OSGeo Foundation
:* Active member of OSGeo Edu
:* Develop and promote OSGeo Educational initiatives (ELOGeo)
:* Founder and Chair of [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx OSGIS conference series]
:* Invited speaker and presenter at conferences and events
:* Program Committee of many geospatial conferences
:* Building synergies between OSGeo and ICA
:* One of the founding members of the Open Source GIS Summer School initiative and the Geospatial Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data e-learning initiative.

;Contact:
: Email: Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk
: Phone (work): 44 (0)115 84 32750

;Profile last updated: 4th July, 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Sanand

2018-05-25T07:11:38Z

Sanand:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Suchith Anand
|JobTitle=Consultant
|Country=United Kingdom
|City=Nottingham
|Coordinate=52.9549771, -1.1511066
|LocalChapter=OSGeo UK
|Email=Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk
|Photo=Suchith anand.jpg
|Info=Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm ...more].
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=Yes
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=Yes
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
===[[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]===

[[File:Suchith anand.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Suchith Anand]]

Consultant

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm ...more].

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]

:* Established [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1230 Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres] in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU
:* Charter member of OSGeo Foundation
:* Active member of OSGeo Edu
:* Develop and promote OSGeo Educational initiatives (ELOGeo)
:* Founder and Chair of [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx OSGIS conference series]
:* Invited speaker and presenter at conferences and events
:* Program Committee of many geospatial conferences
:* Building synergies between OSGeo and ICA
:* One of the founding members of the Open Source GIS Summer School initiative and the Geospatial Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data e-learning initiative.

;Contact:
: Email: Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk
: Phone (work): 44 (0)115 84 32750

;Profile last updated: 4th July, 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Sanand

2018-05-25T07:10:31Z

Sanand: /* Suchith Anand */

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Suchith Anand
|JobTitle=Researcher
|Company=The University of Nottingham
|Country=United Kingdom
|City=Nottingham
|Coordinate=52.9549771, -1.1511066
|LocalChapter=OSGeo UK
|Email=Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk
|Photo=Suchith anand.jpg
|Info=Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm ...more].
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=Yes
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
===[[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]===

[[File:Suchith anand.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Suchith Anand]]

Consultant

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm ...more].

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]

:* Established [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1230 Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres] in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU
:* Charter member of OSGeo Foundation
:* Active member of OSGeo Edu
:* Develop and promote OSGeo Educational initiatives (ELOGeo)
:* Founder and Chair of [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx OSGIS conference series]
:* Invited speaker and presenter at conferences and events
:* Program Committee of many geospatial conferences
:* Building synergies between OSGeo and ICA
:* One of the founding members of the Open Source GIS Summer School initiative and the Geospatial Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data e-learning initiative.

;Contact:
: Email: Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk
: Phone (work): 44 (0)115 84 32750

;Profile last updated: 4th July, 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

Board Meeting 2018-04-11

2018-04-09T16:32:35Z

Sanand:

This board meeting is '''scheduled for the 11th of April 2018''' at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2018&month=3&day=1&hour=16&min=0&sec=0 16.00 UTC] through IRC, a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board loomio] and actions on [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues osgeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

Items in italic are recurring at each meeting.

Note that the meeting is limited to 1 hour.

* ''roll call''
* ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
* ''Review and approve past minutes''
** [[Board Meeting 2018-03-01]]
** [[Face_to_Face_Meeting_Bonn_2018]]
** [[Member_Meeting_Bonn_2018]]
* OSGeo Europe - [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2018-March/011317.html request for initial funding]
* Sponsors update
* Incubation update
* Review PyWPS [https://github.com/geopython/pywps/wiki/ProjectGraduationChecklist project graduation] checklist, introduce Jachym Cepicky as officer.
* FOSS4GNA travel and coordination: can be breakout after the meeting
* MoU with YouthMappers following discussions in GeoForAll AB - [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_OSGeoYouthMappers]
* add your items here..

=== Last meeting 2018-03-01 ===
* [[Board_Meeting_2018-03-01]]

== Minutes ==

* Attending:
* Presiding:
* Scribing:

=== Full, raw minutes notes ===

IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2018-04-05.log

MOU YouthMappers

2018-04-09T16:27:06Z

Sanand:

'''Memorandum of Understanding between

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation

and

YouthMappers
'''

April 2018

The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to establish a collaborative relationship between the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the YouthMappers. Both parties to this MOU share the goal of helping share global geo-information and geoeducation opportunities with all communities .

The MOU will cover the following proposals and topics:

· GeoForAll will encourage labs to establish YouthMappers chapters to expand students links with the Open Source geospatial community.

· GeoForAll will proactively work to identify ways for student travel support for FOSS4G events and promote such funding in the future for students explore creative ways to have local or nearby chapters participate without registration costs (as conference assistants, etc.)

· GeoForAll will help YouthMappers to identify any competitions or internship opportunities for YouthMappers within the OSGeo ecosystem.

· YouthMappers will include GeoForAll resources on their wiki for their chapters and promote use of them by participating universities.

· YouthMappers advertise FOSS4G events to YouthMappers chapters, especially to local chapters, along with any travel support that might be available.

· YouthMappers will help with any competition (recruitment, selection, nominations, etc.) processing that GeoForAll might offer benefits for such as conference assistants, etc.

· GeoForAll will work to encourage webinars from YouthMappers community in the GeoForAll webinar series to give more students platform to share their work. YouthMappers will add any YouthMappers-given GeoForAll webinars to their YouTube channel

· GeoForAll will highlight and promote the work of YouthMappers leaders in GeoForAll newsletters, website, etc.

This MOU will be reviewed biennially by both parties at which time revisions may be made and the agreement renewed.

Signed by

President, OSGeo

Patricia Solís, PhD CoFounder and Director, YouthMappers

MOU YouthMappers

2018-04-09T16:26:43Z

Sanand: Created page with "'''Memorandum of Understanding between The Open Source Geospatial Foundation and YouthMappers ''' April 2018 The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to es..."

'''Memorandum of Understanding between

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation

and

YouthMappers
'''
April 2018

The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to establish a collaborative relationship between the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the YouthMappers. Both parties to this MOU share the goal of helping share global geo-information and geoeducation opportunities with all communities .

The MOU will cover the following proposals and topics:

· GeoForAll will encourage labs to establish YouthMappers chapters to expand students links with the Open Source geospatial community.

· GeoForAll will proactively work to identify ways for student travel support for FOSS4G events and promote such funding in the future for students explore creative ways to have local or nearby chapters participate without registration costs (as conference assistants, etc.)

· GeoForAll will help YouthMappers to identify any competitions or internship opportunities for YouthMappers within the OSGeo ecosystem.

· YouthMappers will include GeoForAll resources on their wiki for their chapters and promote use of them by participating universities.

· YouthMappers advertise FOSS4G events to YouthMappers chapters, especially to local chapters, along with any travel support that might be available.

· YouthMappers will help with any competition (recruitment, selection, nominations, etc.) processing that GeoForAll might offer benefits for such as conference assistants, etc.

· GeoForAll will work to encourage webinars from YouthMappers community in the GeoForAll webinar series to give more students platform to share their work. YouthMappers will add any YouthMappers-given GeoForAll webinars to their YouTube channel

· GeoForAll will highlight and promote the work of YouthMappers leaders in GeoForAll newsletters, website, etc.

This MOU will be reviewed biennially by both parties at which time revisions may be made and the agreement renewed.

Signed by

President, OSGeo

Patricia Solís, PhD CoFounder and Director, YouthMappers

Edu current initiatives

2018-04-05T09:46:19Z

Sanand: /* University/Higher Education/Schools members */

== OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ Geo for All Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites

* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the "Geo for All" initiative ===

This initiative is led by Suchith Anand.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014. The motto of Geo for All Lab initiative is "Geo For All".Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

All interested organisations must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

== Current members of the Geo for All Labs Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

There are two tables, the first one for university/education/schools members ; second table for Industry ,Government and NGO partners of "Geo for All" mission, please select one accordingly.All interested organisations joining as "labs" or "partners"must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

To add a new member copy an existing table entry (uses Mediawiki syntax) and input your information. The coordinates are '''WGS84 decimal coordinates''' in format '''longitude, latitude'''; if you don't add the coordinates following this rule your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ Geo for All Map].
The script to generate the map is available here http://www.geoforall.org/locations/update_geojson.py

=== University/Higher Education/Schools members ===

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|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Stuart Marsh
| Stuart dot Marsh at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geolab.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
| Geospatial analysis and geovisualization, Geo Big Data, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ VGI and citizen science]
| Marco Minghini
| marco.minghini at polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://gridw.pl/en/areas-of-competence/179-open-source-geolab UNEP/GRID Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://osgl.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.karto.ethz.ch/ Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionut Iosifescu Enescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| Teaching Geospatial Analysis and Modeling using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Rossella Nocera
| rossella.nocera at unimol.it
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
|
| Prof. Dr. Marek Baranowski
| Marek.Baranowski@igik.edu.pl
|-
| 13.
| [http://geo.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
|
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
| [https://www.fossgis.de/wiki/FOSS@HFT FOSS@HFT: Open Source Group at University of Applied Sciences]; Open Source based geospatial education; OSGEo Certification framework
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.labgeolivre.ufpr.br/ Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.23329, -25.45304
| 2012-05-23
| Active - Website [http://www.labgeolivre.ufpr.br/ Laboratório Geoespacial Livre] Research on: Academic and Collaborative SDI; Geo Big Data, Geovisualization, Indoor Mapping, Data Quality, Use and User Issues, VGI.
| Silvana Camboim
| silvanacamboim at gmail.com
|-
| 17.
| [http://geografia.science.upjs.sk/index.php/en/ Institute of Geography, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University]
| Kosice
| Slovakia
| Europe
| 21.2460432, 48.7288883
| 2016-04-25
| Open source GIS course, development and applications of GRASS GIS; R; MapServer; LAStools; MeshLab; CloudCompare; Blender
| Jaroslav Hofierka
| jaroslav.hofierka@upjs.sk
|-
| 18.
| [http://comunidad.udistrital.edu.co/osgeolabud/ OSGeoLabUD, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas]
| Bogotá
| Colombia
| South America
| -74.06564,4.62799
| 2017-02-22
| [http://comunidad.udistrital.edu.co/osgeolabud/ OSGeoLabUD, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas]
| Paulo Cesar Coronado Sanchez
| paulo_cesar@udistrital.edu.co
|-
| 19.
| [http://www.universidad.edu.uy/ Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| [http://geografia.fcien.edu.uy/ltaat/ Laboratorio de Técnicas Aplicadas al Análisis del Territorio]
| Virginia Fernandez
| vivi@fcien.edu.uy
|-
| 20.
| [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/ University of Trento]
| Trento
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.139053, 46.064827
|
|[http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/documents.html Tutorials in the Italian and English languages]
|[[User: clara |Clara Tattoni]]
|clara.tattoni at unitn.it
|-
| 21.
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html University of Heidelberg]
| Heidelberg
| Germany
| Europe
| 8.67024,49.41739
| 2016-02-08
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html Heidelberg GIScience]
|Alexander Zipf and Bernhard Hofle
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development, [https://github.com/ncsu-osgeorel course development]
| [[User: helena|Helena Mitasova]]
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
| Developed and supports a web-based academic paper review system for use at FOSS4G global and regional conferences (http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/); collaboration on open educational; and grant efforts to support GeoForAll's activities.
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://spatial.ucdavis.edu University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://rspatial.org R-Spatial.org],[https://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://fght.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| Website under construction. Teaching GIS software using QGIS and other OSGEO products. Introduce web based mapping tools using MapGuide Open Source and QGIS.
|Nurul Hawani Idris
|hawani at utm.my
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
| nctiglao at gmail.com
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(at)grel(dot)ist(dot)edu(dot)pk
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
|
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
|
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Jack Barton
| jack.barton at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://spatialquerylab.com/projects/open-source-gis/ Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| FOSS4G curriculum development focusing on QGIS and GRASS. Curriculum available on [http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/ our website].
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
|
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| Programa de Gestión de Información y Gestión de Datos -IRPHa [http://www.unsj.edu.ar/ Universidad Nacional de San Juan]
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.57, -31.54
| 2012-06-15
| Nodo de información territorial abierta a investigadores, instituciones y público. Aplicación de software libre para futura infraestructura de datos espaciales, interoperabilidad y webservices./ Node for Territorial information open to researchers, institutions and public. Free software application for future spatial data infrastructure, interoperability and webservices
| Esp. Lic. María Valentina Soria
| valentina@unsj.edu.ar; pgid.irpha@gmail.com
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| Reviewing our actual formation portfolio and research interests.
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|Active
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Geoinformatic Unit, Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|Teaching and conducting research on geographical information science using QGIS & various other OSGEO products. Had done research on use opensource GIS for secondary schools. http://campusgis.usm.my/
| Ruslan Rainis
| rruslan at usm.my
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| <strike>50</strike>
| <strike>[http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]</strike>
| <strike>San Michele all'Adige (Trento)</strike>
| <strike>Italy </strike>
| <strike>Europe</strike>
| <strike>11.133042,46.187865</strike>
| from 2013-10-16 to 2016-02-01
| <strike>Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development</strike>
| <strike>Luca Delucchi </strike>
| <strike>luca.delucchi at fmach.it</strike>
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|Spatial processing on the web using open standards and open source software
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| Active - Website [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Laboratório de Geoprocessamento da UFC ]
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://insight.glos.ac.uk/FACULTIES/AS/OSGEOLAB/Pages/default.aspx/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| Active
| Dr Robert Berry
| osgeolab at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| Active
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/sig/geoforall.html University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| (published 2014-07-24)
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.515647, 50.456936
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.996707, 40.567811
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| [http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/ Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo]
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| VGI and Neocartography studies @ Divisions of Research Initiative for Global Geospatial Information, [http://urbandata-challenge.aigid.jp/ Urban Data Challenge]
| Dr. Toshikazu Seto
| tosseto at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| Active
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY]
| New York
| US
| North America
| -73.964831, 40.768703
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/ Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH]
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.961498, 40.627516
| 2014-04-05
|http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ http://www.auth.gr/en/units/19861
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 13.039586, 47.823711
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/la/e?lid=15 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK) OSGeo Research and Education Lab], Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.4752782, 50.3825971
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; http://lab.osgeo.org.ua
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|-
| 82.
| [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]
| Denver, CO
| USA
| North America
| -105.0019444, 39.0122222
| 2014-08-17
|http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ PostGIS tutorials and spatial analysis with PostGIS
| Rafael Moreno
| Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
|-
| 83.
| French Space Agency CNES
| Toulouse
| France
| Europe
| 1.481608, 43.561984
| 2014-07-17
| in the process of being established
| [[User:Grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]]
| manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr
|-
| 84.
| Comunidad gvSIG Uruguay
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.203617, -34.905912
| 2014-08-15
| [http://www.gvsig.com/es/comunidad/grupos-comunidades/-/asset_publisher/4VwYcfopkoel/content/uruguay?_101_INSTANCE_4VwYcfopkoel_redirect=%2Fes%2Fcomunidad%2Fgrupos-comunidades Comunidad gvSIG Uruguay] [https://siglibreuruguay.wordpress.com/ Blog SIG Libre Uruguay] [http://valijas.ceibal.edu.uy/recurso/33 gvSIG Batoví] [https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/ Blog gvSIG Batoví]
| Sergio Acosta Y Lara; Ma. Victoria Álvarez; Alí Silva, Nadia Chaer; Diego Cabrera
| sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; victoria.alvarez@imm.gub.uy; alis@correo.com.uy; nchaer@farq.edu.uy; dcabrera@mides.gub.uy
|-
| 85.
| [http://152.66.5.8/osgeolab/?lang=en Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054403, 47.481916
| 2014-08-19
| in/outdoor positioning, [http://www.geod.bme.hu/ulyxes sensor integration], QGIS plugins, MapServer, GRASS GIS, PostGIS, OSGeo Live, ... [http://osgeo.hu Tutorials], [http://foss4g.hu Conferences]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki.zoltan at epito.bme.hu
|-
| 86.
| Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
| Cambridge MA
| USA
| North America
| -71.116913,42.376398
| 2014-09-17
| Active, [http://worldmap.harvard.edu WorldMap]
| Ben Lewis
| blewis at cga.harvard.edu
|-
| 87.
| Community Mapping Lab Green Mountain College
| Poultney, VT
| USA
| North America
| -73.240679, 43.515866
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, http://gmcmaplab.blog.com/?page_id=50
| John Van Hoesen
| vanhoesenj at greenmtn.edu
|-
| 88.
| [http://nemac.unca.edu/ National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)], UNC Asheville
| Asheville, NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.55149, 35.59506
| 2014-09-18
| in process of being established
| John Derek Morgan
| jdmorgan at unca.edu
|-
| 89.
| [http://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/ Birds Eye View GIS]
| Albuquerque, NM
| USA
| North America
| -106.60893, 35.068353
| 2014-09-18
| FOSS4G Educator at Central New Mexico Community College, Del Mar College and the University of New Mexico. Co-author [https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis Mastering QGIS ], [http://foss4geo.org/ GeoAcademy], and author [https://locatepress.com/dqw Discover QGIS]
| Kurt Menke
| kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
|-
| 90.
| [http://gis.blog.ryerson.ca/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| [[User:Crinner| Claus Rinner]]
| crinner at ryerson dot ca
|-
| 91.
| [http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/ School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management ], University of Queensland
| Brisbane
| Australia
| Australia
|
| 2014-12-12
| Website under construction
| David Pullar
| d.pullar at uq.edu.au
|-
| 92.
| [http://www-etis.ensea.fr/ ETIS Lab ENSEA UCP CNRS UMR 8051 ], University of Cergy Pontoise
| Cergy Pontoise
| France
| Europe
| 2.085741, 49.043274
| 2015-03-10
| Website under construction
| [[User:kotzino | Dimitris Kotzinos]]
| kotzino at gmail.com
|-
| 93.
| Department of Global Studies, Warren Wilson College
| Asheville NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.4420794, 35.6115585
| 2015-04-19
| Website under construction
| David Abernathy
| dabernathy@warren-wilson.edu
|-
| 94.
| The Spatial Lab, Dept of Geography & Environmental Studies Wilfrid Laurier University
| Waterloo, ON
| Canada
| North America
| -80.529557, 43.474073
| 2015-05-01
|
| Colin Robertson
| crobertson at wlu.ca
|-
| 95.
| National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences
| Cairo
| Egypt
| Africa
| 30.0500, 31.2333
| 2015-05-01
| Improving the quality of Education/Vocational Education using Geospatial Technology based on FOSS
| Rania Elsayed
| ranyaalsayed at gmail.com
|-
| 96.
| [http://sgugit.ru/en/collaboration/international-cooperation/siberian-opensource-geospatial-lab/ Geomatics and Virtual Reality Research Group], Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies
| Novosibirsk
| Russian Federation
| Europe
| 82.863503, 54.986816
| 2015-05-18
| In process of being established
| Alexey Kolesnikov, Pavel Kikin
| alekseykw at gmail.com, it-technologies at yandex.ru
|-
| 97.
| [http://smart.uow.edu.au/osgeo/index.html SMART Open Source Geospatial Laboratory], University of Wollongong
| Wollongong
| Australia
| Australia
| 150.87889, -34.40596
| 2014-10-17
|
| Dr Tomas Holderness
| tomas at uow.edu.au
|-
| 98.
| Department of Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054717, 47.481911
| 2015-06-29
| [http://www.geoscope.hu geoscope lab]: Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, Curriculum development on QGIS
| Dr. Gyorgy Szabo
| szabo.gyorgy at epito.bme.hu
|-
|99.
| [http://www.etsu.edu/cas/geosciences/ Geospatial Exploration Lab, Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University]
| Johnson City, Tennessee
| USA
| North America
| -82.3700950, 36.3000590
| 2015-06-18
| Research and Applied Geospatial Projects; Research includes Hydrological Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar (GRP), Hazard/Disaster Modeling and Mapping, Climatological Modeling and Mapping, and Species Distribution Modeling; Applied Geospatial Projects include server- and app-based solutions for campus, local cities and counties, micro UAV (drone) videography and photo imaging, and community GIS support; Website: http://etsugeos.weebly.com/gel.html (Partially constructed)
| Dr. Andrew Joyner
| joynert@mail.etsu.edu
|-
|100.
| [http://www.geoinformatics.upol.cz/eosgeo Dept. of Geoinformatics, Palacký University Olomouc]
| Olomouc
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 17.26551,49.593812
| 2015-06-29
| Courses with open source products
| Dr. Rostislav Nétek
| rostislav.netek@upol.cz
|-
|101.
| [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/gis/OSGeo/osgeolablaunch University College London]
| London
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -0.133427,51.524773
| 2015-07-07
| Courses and research making extensive use of open source products and open data, run across UCL including Geomatic Engineering, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Geography and Archaeology.
| Dr. Claire Ellul
| c.ellul@ucl.ac.uk
|-
|102.
| [http://aworldbridge.com/ A World Bridge]
| Middletown, New York
| USA
| North America
| -74.438534, 41.451795
| 2015-07-07
| Building advanced curriculum through the design and implementation of real-time, real-world, project-based learning environments.
| Ron Fortunato
| ron@trilliumlearning.com
|-
|103.
| [http://www.irea.cnr.it/en/ IREA-CNR]
| Via Edoardo Bassini, Milano
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.23434,45.48046
| 2015-10-05
| Activities of IREA in FOSS are mainly related to research in the management of geo-based data and information, and in the development of free and open software to enable storage, management, view and access to geodata.
| Alessandro Oggioni
| oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it
|-
|104.
| [http://g2c.heig-vd.ch/en/presentation/labs/geoinformatics-and-gis HEIG-VD GIS-Lab] University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland at Yverdon
| Route de Cheseaux 1, 1401 Yverdon-les-Bains
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.65950,46.77938
| 2015-10-08
| Key competences: spatial databases, modeling, data infrastructures, interoperability, webmapping, spatial webservices, spatial analysis, GIS project management, geovisualization, human-computer interaction and interface design
| Prof. Dr. Jens Ingensand
| jens.ingensand@heig-vd.ch
|-
|105.
| [http://www.gsc.aoyama.ac.jp/ Global Studies and Collaboration(GSC)], Aoyama Gakuin University
| Fuchinobe 5-10-1, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.4030, 35.5664
| 2015-11-05
| Courses with open source products and open data. In addition, There is OpenStreetMap basecamp/CrisisMappers Japan base.
| Prof. Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at gsc.aoyama.ac.jp
|-
|106.
| [http://rsgis.ait.ac.th/ Remote Sensing & GIS], Asian Institute of
Technology
| 58 Moo 9, Km. 42, Paholyothin Highway, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120
| Thailand
| Asia
| 100.612086, 14.079753
| 2015-11-24
| Open-source Web mapping, LBS, crowd sourcing, Sensor Web, OGC Web
Services and QGIS plugins; research, teaching, and consulting using OGS
Web Services,QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
| sarawutn at ait.ac.th
|-
|107.
| [http://www.aun.edu.ng/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], School of Information Technology and Computing, American University of Nigeria
| 98 Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola By-Pass, P.M.B. 2250,Yola, Adamawa State
| Nigeria
| Africa
| 12.4996909, 9.1911318
| 2015-11-25
| Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Prof. Kalum Priyanath Udagepola
| kalum.udagepola at aun.edu.ng
|-
|108.
|[http://geographydept.um.ac.ir/ Department of Geography]
| Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashad
| Iran
| Asia
| 59.534125,36.306903
| 2016-02-01
|
| Dr. Masoud Minaei
| m.minaei at um.ac.ir, minaei.masoud at gmail.com
|-
|109.
| [http://ladestlab.it Laboratorio Dati Economici Storici Territoriali] University of Siena
| Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 10 - 53100 Siena
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.332129,43.312688
| 2016-04-23
| Key competences: GIS; data collection; spatial analysis; territorial data mapping; agent-based spatial modelling; volunteered geographic information; social media analysis
| Prof. Cristina Capineri; Stefano Picascia
| {cristina,stefano}@ladestlab.it
|-
|110.
| [http://sarg.gisc.gr/en/ Spatial Analysis Research Group] Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens
| El. Venizelou 70, Kallithea 17671, Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.70755,37.96124
| 2016-06-19
| Key competences: spatial analysis; GIS; vizualisation; open data creation; QGIS, statistical programming with R; R package lctools; spatial inequalities; python; spatial interaction modelling
| Ass. Prof. Stamatis Kalogirou
| skalo@hua.gr
|-
|111.
| [http://www.pec.ac.in/ Department of Civil Engineering] PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India
| Sector 12, Chandigarh, 160012
| India
| Asia
| 76.780893,30.766247
| 2016-09-12
|
| Ass. Prof. Har Amrit Singh Sandhu
| haramritsingh.pec@gmail.com
|-
|112.
| DePaul University, Department of Geography
| Chicago
| USA
| North America
| -87.6269709,41.8775909
| 2016-10-28
|
| Cassandra Follett
| CFOLLETT@depaul.edu
|-
|113.
| University of Wisconsin, Cartography Lab
| Madison
| USA
| North America
| -89.4011849,43.075844
| 2016-12-01
|
| Carl Sack
|cmsack@wisc.edu
|-
|-
|114.
| Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.816531,-1.279007
| 2016-12-14
|
| Kiringai Kamau
| kiringai@gmail.com
|-
|-
|115.
| [http://www.cs.siue.edu/~marmcke/geoforall/ Spatiotemporal Data Research and Education Laboratory] Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Computer Science Department
| Edwardsville, IL
| USA
| North America
| -90.0009, 38.7917
| 2017-02-03
|
| Mark McKenney
| marmcke@siue.edu
|-
-
|116.
| Lakeland Community College, Geography and Geospatial Technology
| Kirtland, OH
| USA
| North America
| 41.6333, -81.3666
| 2017-04-17
| Geospatial education, spatial data management, geospatial intelligence, watershed modeling and analysis.
| Bobby Oliver
| boliver@lakelandcc.edu
|-
|-
|117.
| [http://my.ewha.ac.kr/ewhagiseng/ GIS Lab of Ewha Womans University] Dept of Social Studies (Geography), Ewha Womans University
| 52, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul
| South Korea
| Asia
| 126.946214, 37.5650726
| 2017-06-26
| Key competences: GIS; Spatial Analysis; Vizualisation; Open Source GIS Software, Education with Geospatial Technology
| Prof. Youngok Kang
| ykang@ewha.ac.kr
|-
|-
|118.
| [http://www.unifiji.ac.fj/geoforalllab/ School of Science & Technology GeoForAll Lab of The University of Fiji]
| Saweni, Lautoka
| Fiji Islands
| South Pacific
|177.4079991,-17.6686835
| 2017-07-06
| Key competences: GIS, Spatial Analysis, Vizualisation, Education with Geospatial Technology, Systems Development, Data Collection, Database Management, Systems Integration, Network Modelling/Simulation/Analysis, Web Mapping, Application Development, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoServer, MapServer, OpenLayers, GeoEXT, GeoExplorer, GDAL, QGIS Server, QGIS Desktop, QGIS Web Client, Lizmap Web Client, Python and GRASS + R.
| Professor A B M Shawkat Ali, Edwin Liava'a and Anish Maharaj
| shawkata@unifiji.ac.fj; edwinl@unifiji.ac.fj; anishm@unifiji.ac.fj
|-
|-
|119.
| Laboratorio de Geomática de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá
| Bogotá
| Colombia
| South America
| -74.08731, 4.63600
| 2017-08-09
| Apoyo de cursos de Geomática con software libre en la Maestría en Geomática: SIG con QGIS Desktop, Geoservicio con QGIS Server; Apoyo en los cursos de Geomática y Sistemas de Información Geográfica con software libre de QGIS Desktop, GRASS GIS y SAGA GIS en IngenieriaCivil; Apoyo con documentación y material libre a través de GeoTux: http://geotux.tuxfamily.org; Divulgación de scripts de R para análisis geoespacial a través de http://rpubs.com/ials2un, Investigación en el uso de tecnologías geomáticas que apoyen el desarrollo sostenible
| Dr. Ivan Alberto Lizarazo Salcedo (Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias); MSc. Samuel Mesa (Facutad de Ingeniería)
| ializarazos@unal.edu.co; femesagi@unal.edu.co
|-
|-
|120.
| [http://www.cirenys.cl/ Centro de Investigación en Recursos Naturales y Sustentabilidad (CIRENYS), Universidad Bernardo O Higgins]
| Santiago
| Chile
| South America
| -70.656918, -33.467547
| 2017-08-09
|
| Aly Valderrama; Carlos Lara
| alyvalderrama@gmail.com; carlos.lara@ubo.cl
|-
|-
|121.
| [http://www.spatial-ecology.net/ Spatial-Ecology] and [https://research.computing.yale.edu/training/hands-geo-computation-bootcamps GeoComputation at Yale]
| New Haven, CT
| USA
| North America
| -72.920816, 41.320066
| 2017-25-11
| Teaching Open Source Software for GeoComputation under Linux environment through workshops, intensive trainings and summer schools. Info at [http://wwww.spatial-ecology.net/ www.spatial-ecology.net] and [https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/spatial-ecology Spatial-Ecology mailing list]
| [https://research.computing.yale.edu/about/staff/giuseppe-amatulli Giuseppe Amatulli]
| giuseppe.amatulli at gmail.com
|-
|-
|122.
| University of Mauritius
| Reduit Moca
| Mauritius
| Africa
| add longitude, latitude
| 2017-11-15
| in process to be established
| Nikesh Heerowa
| genevamis@govmu.org
|-
|-
|123.
| [http://aworldbridge.com/ A World Bridge]
| Barrow
|Alaska
| North America
| -156.779008 , 71.289655
| 2018-4-5
| delivering data including climate change studies for USGS, NOAA and NASA
| Ron Fortunato
| ron@trilliumlearning.com
|-
|-
|124.
| [https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/research/fisher-geographical-information-and-data-laboratory ] University of Leicester
| Leicester
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -1.139759, 52.636878
| 2018-4-5
| The Pete Fisher Laboratory for Geocomputation
| Dr Stefano De Sabbata
| s.desabbata@le.ac.uk
|-
|}
|}

=== "Geo for All" Government, Industry and NGO Partners ===

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!
! Organisation
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / Announced
! Notes (specify category etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
|1.
| [http://www.sourcepole.com Sourcepole]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.528522,47.370273
| 2015-07-03
| Partnership with [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Pirmin Kalberer
| info at sourcepole dot com
|-
|2.
| [http://www.attivarti.org Attivarti.org]
| Torniella
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.15382,43.07390
| 2015-07-12
| incubation phase (various links to OSGEO Community and to other geospatial players in Italy and internationally). Focus on VGI and participatory methods.
| Andrea Giacomelli
| mappare at attivarti dot org
|-
|3.
| [http://www.hunagi.hu HUNAGI]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.05561,46.48147
| 2015-08-12
| Free data, geodatabases, resource analysis, geospatial modelling and programming. (OSM, SRTM, QGIS, PyQGIS, Qt, GRASS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS)
| Ervin Wirth
| wirth dot ervin at hunagi dot hu
|-
|4.
| [http://www.wat-tube.it Wat-TUBE (spin-off University of Basilicata)]
| Potenza
| Italy
| Europe
| 15.807793,40.645470
| 2015-09-07
| Open-source and free (FOSS) software development in the field of flood and landslide risk, flood prediction and analysis, water resources management, hydrology.
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Raffalba Raffaele Albano]
| raffaele dot albano85 at gmail dot com
|-
|}

== Interested in joining or supporting the "Geo for All" initiative? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# North America - Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
# South America - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
# Europe - Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney (Ireland)
# Asia (including Australia)- Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
# Africa - Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

Email the regonial mailing lists and contact the region chairs to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process. The full criteria at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

=== Key requirements for joining the "Geo for All Labs" initiative ===

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[FOSS4G EU Como 2015 Preconference meeting]]
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== Geo for All Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
<br>
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Bof

2017-07-16T07:45:18Z

Sanand: /* [GeoForAll BoF] L006 */

BoF ''(Birds of a feather)'' is an informal discussion group. Unlike special interest groups or working groups, BoFs are informal and often formed in an ad hoc manner. The acronym is used by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to denote initial meetings of members interested in a particular issue.

A BoF session, an informal meeting at conferences, where the attendees group together based on a shared interest and carry out discussions without any pre-planned agenda.

FOSS4G-Europe is offering rooms for self-organized discussion groups. Please, if you feel an urge to meet and discuss some topic, block the room by editing this wiki page, propose BoF's topic, write yourself down and meet.

here is the list of available rooms:

* ground floor : L004, L005 (computer lab with folding computer tables, L006 (codesprint room - might be used but not sure)
* first floor : L102-L103 (computer lab with folding computer tables), L109 (same)
* second floor : L201

== Wednesday 2017-07-19 18:30 - 20:30 ==

=== The approaches to massive 3D geospatial dataset representation | L004 ===
* Where: '''L004''' (30 seats)

Short introduction/description

* Ondřej Procházka
* [[User:Jachym|Jáchym Čepický]]
* Ladislav Horký
* Tomáš Kavan

=== GeoForAll meeting L006 ===
* Where: '''L006''' (60 seats)

Short description

Meeting to discuss ideas on GeoForAll plans

* Maria Brovelli
* Suchith Anand

=== MapServer L102 ===
* Where: '''L102''' (12 seats)

Short description:

Catch up with some of the MapServer project team, and discuss upcoming releases, needs, ideas, etc.

Participants:

* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Stephan Meißl]]
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 4] L103 ===
* Where: '''L103''' (12 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== GeoSever BOF | L109 ===
* Where: '''L109''' (18 seats)

Short description

* Catch up and discussion with the project team
* Discussion on developer user-list participation
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 6] L201 ===
* When: 2017-07-19,
* Where: '''L201''' (16 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

== Friday 2017-07-21 19:00 - 20:30 ==

=== [Empty BoF slot 1] L004 ===
* Where: '''L004''' (30 seats)

Short introduction/description

* List of particpants
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 2] L005 ===
* Where: '''L005''' (25 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 3] L006 ===
* Where: '''L006''' (60 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 4] L102 ===
* Where: '''L102''' (12 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== Google Summer of Code L103 ===
* Where: '''L103''' (12 seats)

Short description:

* catch up with the GSoC admins
* help develop guidelines (who can attend mentor summit etc.)

Participants:

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:hellik|Helmut Kudrnovsky]] via IRC
* [[User:cvvergara|Vicky Vergara]] via IRC

=== [Empty BoF slot 6] L109 ===
* Where: '''L109''' (18 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 7] L201 ===
* When: 2017-07-19,
* Where: '''L201''' (16 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:Bof]]
[[Category:FOSS4G-Europe]]

FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Bof

2017-07-16T07:44:29Z

Sanand: /* [GeoForAll ] L006 */

BoF ''(Birds of a feather)'' is an informal discussion group. Unlike special interest groups or working groups, BoFs are informal and often formed in an ad hoc manner. The acronym is used by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to denote initial meetings of members interested in a particular issue.

A BoF session, an informal meeting at conferences, where the attendees group together based on a shared interest and carry out discussions without any pre-planned agenda.

FOSS4G-Europe is offering rooms for self-organized discussion groups. Please, if you feel an urge to meet and discuss some topic, block the room by editing this wiki page, propose BoF's topic, write yourself down and meet.

here is the list of available rooms:

* ground floor : L004, L005 (computer lab with folding computer tables, L006 (codesprint room - might be used but not sure)
* first floor : L102-L103 (computer lab with folding computer tables), L109 (same)
* second floor : L201

== Wednesday 2017-07-19 18:30 - 20:30 ==

=== The approaches to massive 3D geospatial dataset representation | L004 ===
* Where: '''L004''' (30 seats)

Short introduction/description

* Ondřej Procházka
* [[User:Jachym|Jáchym Čepický]]
* Ladislav Horký
* Tomáš Kavan

=== [GeoForAll BoF] L006 ===
* Where: '''L006''' (60 seats)

Short description

Meeting to discuss ideas on GeoForAll plans

* Maria Brovelli
* Suchith Anand

=== MapServer L102 ===
* Where: '''L102''' (12 seats)

Short description:

Catch up with some of the MapServer project team, and discuss upcoming releases, needs, ideas, etc.

Participants:

* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Stephan Meißl]]
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 4] L103 ===
* Where: '''L103''' (12 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== GeoSever BOF | L109 ===
* Where: '''L109''' (18 seats)

Short description

* Catch up and discussion with the project team
* Discussion on developer user-list participation
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 6] L201 ===
* When: 2017-07-19,
* Where: '''L201''' (16 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

== Friday 2017-07-21 19:00 - 20:30 ==

=== [Empty BoF slot 1] L004 ===
* Where: '''L004''' (30 seats)

Short introduction/description

* List of particpants
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 2] L005 ===
* Where: '''L005''' (25 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 3] L006 ===
* Where: '''L006''' (60 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 4] L102 ===
* Where: '''L102''' (12 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== Google Summer of Code L103 ===
* Where: '''L103''' (12 seats)

Short description:

* catch up with the GSoC admins
* help develop guidelines (who can attend mentor summit etc.)

Participants:

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:hellik|Helmut Kudrnovsky]] via IRC
* [[User:cvvergara|Vicky Vergara]] via IRC

=== [Empty BoF slot 6] L109 ===
* Where: '''L109''' (18 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

=== [Empty BoF slot 7] L201 ===
* When: 2017-07-19,
* Where: '''L201''' (16 seats)

Short description

* Participant 1
* ...

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:Bof]]
[[Category:FOSS4G-Europe]]

Edu current initiatives

2016-12-14T15:43:39Z

Sanand: /* University/Higher Education/Schools members */

== OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ Geo for All Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites

* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the "Geo for All" initiative ===

This initiative is led by Suchith Anand.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014. The motto of Geo for All Lab initiative is "Geo For All".Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

All interested organisations must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

== Current members of the Geo for All Labs Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

There are two tables, the first one for university/education/schools members ; second table for Industry ,Government and NGO partners of "Geo for All" mission, please select one accordingly.All interested organisations joining as "labs" or "partners"must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

To add a new member copy an existing table entry (uses Mediawiki syntax) and input your information. The coordinates are '''WGS84 decimal coordinates''' in format '''longitude, latitude'''; if you don't add the coordinates following this rule your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ Geo for All Map].
The script to generate the map is available here http://www.geoforall.org/locations/update_geojson.py

=== University/Higher Education/Schools members ===

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!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Didier Leibovici
| Didier dot Leibovici at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geolab.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
| Geospatial analysis and geovisualization, Geo Big Data, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ VGI and citizen science]
| Marco Minghini
| marco.minghini at polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://gridw.pl/en/areas-of-competence/179-open-source-geolab UNEP/GRID Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://osgl.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.karto.ethz.ch/ Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionut Iosifescu Enescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| Teaching Geospatial Analysis and Modeling using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Rossella Nocera
| rossella.nocera at unimol.it
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
|
| Prof. Dr. Marek Baranowski
| Marek.Baranowski@igik.edu.pl
|-
| 13.
| [http://geo.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
|
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
| [https://www.fossgis.de/wiki/FOSS@HFT FOSS@HFT: Open Source Group at University of Applied Sciences]; Open Source based geospatial education; OSGEo Certification framework
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.labgeolivre.ufpr.br/ Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.23329, -25.45304
| 2012-05-23
| Active - Website [http://www.labgeolivre.ufpr.br/ Laboratório Geoespacial Livre] Research on: Academic and Collaborative SDI; Geo Big Data, Geovisualization, Indoor Mapping, Data Quality, Use and User Issues, VGI.
| Silvana Camboim
| silvanacamboim at gmail.com
|-
| 17.
| [http://geografia.science.upjs.sk/index.php/en/ Institute of Geography, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University]
| Kosice
| Slovakia
| Europe
| 21.2460432, 48.7288883
| 2016-04-25
| Open source GIS course, development and applications of GRASS GIS; R; MapServer; LAStools; MeshLab; CloudCompare; Blender
| Jaroslav Hofierka
| jaroslav.hofierka@upjs.sk
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| To be replaced
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://www.universidad.edu.uy/ Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| [http://geografia.fcien.edu.uy/ltaat/ Laboratorio de Técnicas Aplicadas al Análisis del Territorio]
| Virginia Fernandez
| vivi@fcien.edu.uy
|-
| 20.
| [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/ University of Trento]
| Trento
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.139053, 46.064827
|
|[http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/documents.html Tutorials in the Italian and English languages]
|[[User: clara |Clara Tattoni]]
|clara.tattoni at unitn.it
|-
| 21.
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html University of Heidelberg]
| Heidelberg
| Germany
| Europe
| 8.67024,49.41739
| 2016-02-08
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html Heidelberg GIScience]
|Alexander Zipf and Bernhard Hofle
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development, [https://github.com/ncsu-osgeorel course development]
| [[User: helena|Helena Mitasova]]
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
| Developing a Web-GIS class; Working on grants to support GeoForAll's activities; Collaboration on open educational materials
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://fght.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| Website under construction. Teaching GIS software using QGIS and other OSGEO products. Introduce web based mapping tools using MapGuide Open Source and QGIS.
|Nurul Hawani Idris
|hawani at utm.my
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
| nctiglao at gmail.com
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(at)grel(dot)ist(dot)edu(dot)pk
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
|
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
|
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Jack Barton
| jack.barton at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://spatialquerylab.com/projects/open-source-gis/ Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| FOSS4G curriculum development focusing on QGIS and GRASS. Curriculum available on [http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/ our website].
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
|
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| Programa de Gestión de Información y Gestión de Datos -IRPHa [http://www.unsj.edu.ar/ Universidad Nacional de San Juan]
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.57, -31.54
| 2012-06-15
| Nodo de información territorial abierta a investigadores, instituciones y público. Aplicación de software libre para futura infraestructura de datos espaciales, interoperabilidad y webservices./ Node for Territorial information open to researchers, institutions and public. Free software application for future spatial data infrastructure, interoperability and webservices
| Esp. Lic. María Valentina Soria
| valentina@unsj.edu.ar; pgid.irpha@gmail.com
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| Reviewing our actual formation portfolio and research interests.
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|Active
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Geoinformatic Unit, Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|Teaching and conducting research on geographical information science using QGIS & various other OSGEO products. Had done research on use opensource GIS for secondary schools. http://campusgis.usm.my/
| Ruslan Rainis
| rruslan at usm.my
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|Spatial processing on the web using open standards and open source software
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| Active - Website [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Laboratório de Geoprocessamento da UFC ]
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://insight.glos.ac.uk/FACULTIES/AS/OSGEOLAB/Pages/default.aspx/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| Active
| Dr Robert Berry
| osgeolab at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| Active
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/sig/geoforall.html University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| (published 2014-07-24)
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.515647, 50.456936
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.996707, 40.567811
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| [http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/ Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo]
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| VGI and Neocartography studies @ Divisions of Research Initiative for Global Geospatial Information, [http://urbandata-challenge.aigid.jp/ Urban Data Challenge]
| Dr. Toshikazu Seto
| tosseto at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| Active
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY]
| New York
| US
| North America
| -73.964831, 40.768703
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/ Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH]
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.961498, 40.627516
| 2014-04-05
|http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ http://www.auth.gr/en/units/19861
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 13.039586, 47.823711
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/la/e?lid=15 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK) OSGeo Research and Education Lab], Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.4752782, 50.3825971
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; http://lab.osgeo.org.ua
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|-
| 82.
| [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]
| Denver, CO
| USA
| North America
| -105.0019444, 39.0122222
| 2014-08-17
|http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ PostGIS tutorials and spatial analysis with PostGIS
| Rafael Moreno
| Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
|-
| 83.
| French Space Agency CNES
| Toulouse
| France
| Europe
| 1.481608, 43.561984
| 2014-07-17
| in the process of being established
| [[User:Grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]]
| manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr
|-
| 84.
| Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.203617, -34.905912
| 2014-08-15
| [https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi] [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/docentes/gvsigbatoviresumen gvSIG Batoví-Ceibal]
| Sergio Acosta Y Lara
| sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy
|-
| 85.
| [http://152.66.5.8/osgeolab/?lang=en Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054403, 47.481916
| 2014-08-19
| in/outdoor positioning, [http://www.geod.bme.hu/ulyxes sensor integration], QGIS plugins, MapServer, GRASS GIS, PostGIS, OSGeo Live, ... [http://osgeo.hu Tutorials], [http://foss4g.hu Conferences]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki.zoltan at epito.bme.hu
|-
| 86.
| Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
| Cambridge MA
| USA
| North America
|
| 2014-09-17
| Active, [http://worldmap.harvard.edu WorldMap]
| Ben Lewis
| blewis at cga.harvard.edu
|-
| 87.
| Community Mapping Lab Green Mountain College
| Poultney, VT
| USA
| North America
| -73.240679, 43.515866
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, http://gmcmaplab.blog.com/?page_id=50
| John Van Hoesen
| vanhoesenj at greenmtn.edu
|-
| 88.
| [http://nemac.unca.edu/ National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)], UNC Asheville
| Asheville, NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.55149, 35.59506
| 2014-09-18
| in process of being established
| John Derek Morgan
| jdmorgan at unca.edu
|-
| 89.
| [http://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/ Birds Eye View GIS]
| Albuquerque, NM
| USA
| North America
| -106.60893, 35.068353
| 2014-09-18
| FOSS4G Educator at Central New Mexico Community College, Del Mar College and the University of New Mexico. Co-author [https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis Mastering QGIS ], [http://foss4geo.org/ GeoAcademy], and author [https://locatepress.com/dqw Discover QGIS]
| Kurt Menke
| kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
|-
| 90.
| [http://gis.blog.ryerson.ca/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| [[User:Crinner| Claus Rinner]]
| crinner at ryerson dot ca
|-
| 91.
| [http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/ School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management ], University of Queensland
| Brisbane
| Australia
| Australia
|
| 2014-12-12
| Website under construction
| David Pullar
| d.pullar at uq.edu.au
|-
| 92.
| [http://www-etis.ensea.fr/ ETIS Lab ENSEA UCP CNRS UMR 8051 ], University of Cergy Pontoise
| Cergy Pontoise
| France
| Europe
| 2.085741, 49.043274
| 2015-03-10
| Website under construction
| [[User:kotzino | Dimitris Kotzinos]]
| kotzino at gmail.com
|-
| 93.
| Department of Global Studies, Warren Wilson College
| Asheville NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.4420794, 35.6115585
| 2015-04-19
| Website under construction
| David Abernathy
| dabernathy@warren-wilson.edu
|-
| 94.
| The Spatial Lab, Dept of Geography & Environmental Studies Wilfrid Laurier University
| Waterloo, ON
| Canada
| North America
| -80.529557, 43.474073
| 2015-05-01
|
| Colin Robertson
| crobertson at wlu.ca
|-
| 95.
| National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences
| Cairo
| Egypt
| Africa
| 30.0500, 31.2333
| 2015-05-01
| Improving the quality of Education/Vocational Education using Geospatial Technology based on FOSS
| Rania Elsayed
| ranyaalsayed at gmail.com
|-
| 96.
| [http://sgugit.ru/en/collaboration/international-cooperation/siberian-opensource-geospatial-lab/ Geomatics and Virtual Reality Research Group], Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies
| Novosibirsk
| Russian Federation
| Europe
| 82.863503, 54.986816
| 2015-05-18
| In process of being established
| Alexey Kolesnikov, Pavel Kikin
| alekseykw at gmail.com, it-technologies at yandex.ru
|-
| 97.
| [http://smart.uow.edu.au/osgeo/index.html SMART Open Source Geospatial Laboratory], University of Wollongong
| Wollongong
| Australia
| Australia
| 150.87889, -34.40596
| 2014-10-17
|
| Dr Tomas Holderness
| tomas at uow.edu.au
|-
| 98.
| Department of Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054717, 47.481911
| 2015-06-29
| [http://www.geoscope.hu geoscope lab]: Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, Curriculum development on QGIS
| Dr. Gyorgy Szabo
| szabo.gyorgy at epito.bme.hu
|-
|99.
| [http://www.etsu.edu/cas/geosciences/ Geospatial Exploration Lab, Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University]
| Johnson City, Tennessee
| USA
| North America
| -82.3700950, 36.3000590
| 2015-06-18
| Research and Applied Geospatial Projects; Research includes Hydrological Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar (GRP), Hazard/Disaster Modeling and Mapping, Climatological Modeling and Mapping, and Species Distribution Modeling; Applied Geospatial Projects include server- and app-based solutions for campus, local cities and counties, micro UAV (drone) videography and photo imaging, and community GIS support; Website: http://etsugeos.weebly.com/gel.html (Partially constructed)
| Dr. Andrew Joyner
| joynert@mail.etsu.edu
|-
|100.
| [http://www.geoinformatics.upol.cz/eosgeo Dept. of Geoinformatics, Palacký University Olomouc]
| Olomouc
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 17.26551,49.593812
| 2015-06-29
| Courses with open source products
| Dr. Rostislav Nétek
| rostislav.netek@upol.cz
|-
|101.
| [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/gis/OSGeo/osgeolablaunch University College London]
| London
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -0.133427,51.524773
| 2015-07-07
| Courses and research making extensive use of open source products and open data, run across UCL including Geomatic Engineering, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Geography and Archaeology.
| Dr. Claire Ellul
| c.ellul@ucl.ac.uk
|-
|102.
| [http://aworldbridge.com/ A World Bridge]
| Kodiak, Alaska
| USA
| North America
| -152.396023, 57.781399
| 2015-07-07
| Building advanced curriculum through the design and implementation of real-time, real-world, project-based learning environments.
| Ron Fortunato
| ron@trilliumlearning.com
|-
|103.
| [http://www.irea.cnr.it/en/ IREA-CNR]
| Via Edoardo Bassini, Milano
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.23434,45.48046
| 2015-10-05
| Activities of IREA in FOSS are mainly related to research in the management of geo-based data and information, and in the development of free and open software to enable storage, management, view and access to geodata.
| Alessandro Oggioni
| oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it
|-
|104.
| [http://g2c.heig-vd.ch/en/presentation/labs/geoinformatics-and-gis HEIG-VD GIS-Lab] University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland at Yverdon
| Route de Cheseaux 1, 1401 Yverdon-les-Bains
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.65950,46.77938
| 2015-10-08
| Key competences: spatial databases, modeling, data infrastructures, interoperability, webmapping, spatial webservices, spatial analysis, GIS project management, geovisualization, human-computer interaction and interface design
| Prof. Dr. Jens Ingensand
| jens.ingensand@heig-vd.ch
|-
|105.
| [http://www.gsc.aoyama.ac.jp/ Global Studies and Collaboration(GSC)], Aoyama Gakuin University
| Fuchinobe 5-10-1, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.4030, 35.5664
| 2015-11-05
| Courses with open source products and open data. In addition, There is OpenStreetMap basecamp/CrisisMappers Japan base.
| Prof. Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at gsc.aoyama.ac.jp
|-
|106.
| [http://rsgis.ait.ac.th/ Remote Sensing & GIS], Asian Institute of
Technology
| 58 Moo 9, Km. 42, Paholyothin Highway, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120
| Thailand
| Asia
| 100.612086, 14.079753
| 2015-11-24
| Open-source Web mapping, LBS, crowd sourcing, Sensor Web, OGC Web
Services and QGIS plugins; research, teaching, and consulting using OGS
Web Services,QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
| sarawutn at ait.ac.th
|-
|107.
| [http://www.aun.edu.ng/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], School of Information Technology and Computing, American University of Nigeria
| 98 Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola By-Pass, P.M.B. 2250,Yola, Adamawa State
| Nigeria
| Africa
| 12.4996909, 9.1911318
| 2015-11-25
| Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Prof. Kalum Priyanath Udagepola
| kalum.udagepola at aun.edu.ng
|-
|108.
|[http://geographydept.um.ac.ir/ Department of Geography]
| Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashad
| Iran
| Asia
| 59.534125,36.306903
| 2016-02-01
|
| Dr. Masoud Minaei
| m.minaei at um.ac.ir, minaei.masoud at gmail.com
|-
|109.
| [http://ladestlab.it Laboratorio Dati Economici Storici Territoriali] University of Siena
| Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 10 - 53100 Siena
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.332129,43.312688
| 2016-23-04
| Key competences: GIS; data collection; spatial analysis; territorial data mapping; agent-based spatial modelling; volunteered geographic information; social media analysis
| Prof. Cristina Capineri; Stefano Picascia
| {cristina,stefano}@ladestlab.it
|-
|110.
| [http://sarg.gisc.gr/en/ Spatial Analysis Research Group] Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens
| El. Venizelou 70, Kallithea 17671, Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.70755,37.96124
| 2016-19-06
| Key competences: spatial analysis; GIS; vizualisation; open data creation; QGIS, statistical programming with R; R package lctools; spatial inequalities; python; spatial interaction modelling
| Ass. Prof. Stamatis Kalogirou
| skalo@hua.gr
|-
|111.
| [http://www.pec.ac.in/ Department of Civil Engineering] PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India
| Sector 12, Chandigarh, 160012
| India
| Asia
| 76.780893,30.766247
| 2016-09-12
|
| Ass. Prof. Har Amrit Singh Sandhu
| haramritsingh.pec@gmail.com
|-
|112.
| DePaul University, Department of Geography
| Chicago
| USA
| North America
|
| 2016-10-28
|
| Cassandra Follett
| CFOLLETT@depaul.edu
|-
|113.
| University of Wisconsin, Cartography Lab
| Madison
| USA
| North America
|
| 2016-12-01
|
| Carl Sack
|cmsack@wisc.edu
|-
|-
|114.
| Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
|
| 2016-12-14
|
| Kiringai Kamau
| kiringai@gmail.com
|-
|}

=== "Geo for All" Government, Industry and NGO Partners ===

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!
! Organisation
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / Announced
! Notes (specify category etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
|1.
| [http://www.sourcepole.com Sourcepole]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.528522,47.370273
| 2015-07-03
| Partnership with [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Pirmin Kalberer
| info at sourcepole dot com
|-
|2.
| [http://www.attivarti.org Attivarti.org]
| Torniella
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.15382,43.07390
| 2015-07-12
| incubation phase (various links to OSGEO Community and to other geospatial players in Italy and internationally). Focus on VGI and participatory methods.
| Andrea Giacomelli
| mappare at attivarti dot org
|-
|3.
| [http://www.hunagi.hu HUNAGI]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.05561,46.48147
| 2015-08-12
| Free data, geodatabases, resource analysis, geospatial modelling and programming. (OSM, SRTM, QGIS, PyQGIS, Qt, GRASS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS)
| Ervin Wirth
| wirth dot ervin at hunagi dot hu
|-
|4.
| [http://www.wat-tube.it Wat-TUBE (spin-off University of Basilicata)]
| Potenza
| Italy
| Europe
| 15.807793,40.645470
| 2015-09-07
| Open-source and free (FOSS) software development in the field of flood and landslide risk, flood prediction and analysis, water resources management, hydrology.
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Raffalba Raffaele Albano]
| raffaele dot albano85 at gmail dot com
|-
|}

== Interested in joining or supporting the "Geo for All" initiative? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# North America - Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
# South America - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
# Europe - Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney (Ireland)
# Asia (including Australia)- Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
# Africa - Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

Email the regonial mailing lists and contact the region chairs to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process. The full criteria at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

=== Key requirements for joining the "Geo for All Labs" initiative ===

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[FOSS4G EU Como 2015 Preconference meeting]]
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== Geo for All Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
<br>
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2016-12-14T15:42:18Z

Sanand: /* University/Higher Education/Schools members */

== OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ Geo for All Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites

* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the "Geo for All" initiative ===

This initiative is led by Suchith Anand.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014. The motto of Geo for All Lab initiative is "Geo For All".Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

All interested organisations must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

== Current members of the Geo for All Labs Network ==



Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

There are two tables, the first one for university/education/schools members ; second table for Industry ,Government and NGO partners of "Geo for All" mission, please select one accordingly.All interested organisations joining as "labs" or "partners"must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

To add a new member copy an existing table entry (uses Mediawiki syntax) and input your information. The coordinates are '''WGS84 decimal coordinates''' in format '''longitude, latitude'''; if you don't add the coordinates following this rule your institution will not show on the [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ Geo for All Map].
The script to generate the map is available here http://www.geoforall.org/locations/update_geojson.py

=== University/Higher Education/Schools members ===

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!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Didier Leibovici
| Didier dot Leibovici at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geolab.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
| Geospatial analysis and geovisualization, Geo Big Data, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ VGI and citizen science]
| Marco Minghini
| marco.minghini at polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://gridw.pl/en/areas-of-competence/179-open-source-geolab UNEP/GRID Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://osgl.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.karto.ethz.ch/ Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionut Iosifescu Enescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| Teaching Geospatial Analysis and Modeling using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Rossella Nocera
| rossella.nocera at unimol.it
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.013407, 52.178478
|
|
| Prof. Dr. Marek Baranowski
| Marek.Baranowski@igik.edu.pl
|-
| 13.
| [http://geo.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
|
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
| [https://www.fossgis.de/wiki/FOSS@HFT FOSS@HFT: Open Source Group at University of Applied Sciences]; Open Source based geospatial education; OSGEo Certification framework
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.labgeolivre.ufpr.br/ Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.23329, -25.45304
| 2012-05-23
| Active - Website [http://www.labgeolivre.ufpr.br/ Laboratório Geoespacial Livre] Research on: Academic and Collaborative SDI; Geo Big Data, Geovisualization, Indoor Mapping, Data Quality, Use and User Issues, VGI.
| Silvana Camboim
| silvanacamboim at gmail.com
|-
| 17.
| [http://geografia.science.upjs.sk/index.php/en/ Institute of Geography, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University]
| Kosice
| Slovakia
| Europe
| 21.2460432, 48.7288883
| 2016-04-25
| Open source GIS course, development and applications of GRASS GIS; R; MapServer; LAStools; MeshLab; CloudCompare; Blender
| Jaroslav Hofierka
| jaroslav.hofierka@upjs.sk
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| To be replaced
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://www.universidad.edu.uy/ Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| [http://geografia.fcien.edu.uy/ltaat/ Laboratorio de Técnicas Aplicadas al Análisis del Territorio]
| Virginia Fernandez
| vivi@fcien.edu.uy
|-
| 20.
| [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/ University of Trento]
| Trento
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.139053, 46.064827
|
|[http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/documents.html Tutorials in the Italian and English languages]
|[[User: clara |Clara Tattoni]]
|clara.tattoni at unitn.it
|-
| 21.
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html University of Heidelberg]
| Heidelberg
| Germany
| Europe
| 8.67024,49.41739
| 2016-02-08
| [http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html Heidelberg GIScience]
|Alexander Zipf and Bernhard Hofle
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development, [https://github.com/ncsu-osgeorel course development]
| [[User: helena|Helena Mitasova]]
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
| Developing a Web-GIS class; Working on grants to support GeoForAll's activities; Collaboration on open educational materials
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx OSGEO research lab]
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://fght.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| Website under construction. Teaching GIS software using QGIS and other OSGEO products. Introduce web based mapping tools using MapGuide Open Source and QGIS.
|Nurul Hawani Idris
|hawani at utm.my
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
| nctiglao at gmail.com
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(at)grel(dot)ist(dot)edu(dot)pk
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
|
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
|
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ The University of Melbourne]
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Jack Barton
| jack.barton at unimelb.edu.au
|-
| 39.
| [http://spatialquerylab.com/projects/open-source-gis/ Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| FOSS4G curriculum development focusing on QGIS and GRASS. Curriculum available on [http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/ our website].
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
|
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| Programa de Gestión de Información y Gestión de Datos -IRPHa [http://www.unsj.edu.ar/ Universidad Nacional de San Juan]
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.57, -31.54
| 2012-06-15
| Nodo de información territorial abierta a investigadores, instituciones y público. Aplicación de software libre para futura infraestructura de datos espaciales, interoperabilidad y webservices./ Node for Territorial information open to researchers, institutions and public. Free software application for future spatial data infrastructure, interoperability and webservices
| Esp. Lic. María Valentina Soria
| valentina@unsj.edu.ar; pgid.irpha@gmail.com
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| Reviewing our actual formation portfolio and research interests.
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|Active
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Geoinformatic Unit, Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|Teaching and conducting research on geographical information science using QGIS & various other OSGEO products. Had done research on use opensource GIS for secondary schools. http://campusgis.usm.my/
| Ruslan Rainis
| rruslan at usm.my
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|Spatial processing on the web using open standards and open source software
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| Active - Website [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Laboratório de Geoprocessamento da UFC ]
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://insight.glos.ac.uk/FACULTIES/AS/OSGEOLAB/Pages/default.aspx/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| Active
| Dr Robert Berry
| osgeolab at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| Active
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/sig/geoforall.html University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| (published 2014-07-24)
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.515647, 50.456936
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.996707, 40.567811
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| [http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/ Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo]
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| VGI and Neocartography studies @ Divisions of Research Initiative for Global Geospatial Information, [http://urbandata-challenge.aigid.jp/ Urban Data Challenge]
| Dr. Toshikazu Seto
| tosseto at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| Active
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY]
| New York
| US
| North America
| -73.964831, 40.768703
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/ Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH]
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 22.961498, 40.627516
| 2014-04-05
|http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ http://www.auth.gr/en/units/19861
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 13.039586, 47.823711
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|-
| 78.
| [http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/fakultet/la/e?lid=15 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics]
| Belgrade
| Serbia
| Europe
| 20.476321, 44.805499
| 2014-05-03
| http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/
| Milan Kilibarda
| kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
|-
| 79.
| Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS
| Changchun, Jilin
| China
| Asia
| 125.400779, 43.99896
| 2014-05-26
| http://lab.osgeo.cn/en
| [[User:BuKun|Bu Kun]]
| See Profile page
|-
| 80.
| [http://www.baycollege.edu/gis Bay College ]
| Escanaba, Michigan
| USA
| North America
| -87.163050, 45.773875
| 2014-06-07
| GIS degree in process of being established.
| Karl Linderoth
| linderok at baycollege.edu
|-
| 81.
| [http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK) OSGeo Research and Education Lab], Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 30.4752782, 50.3825971
| 2014-07-11
| Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; http://lab.osgeo.org.ua
| [[User:Darsvid|Daria Svidzinska]]
| d.svidzinska at gmail.com
|-
| 82.
| [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]
| Denver, CO
| USA
| North America
| -105.0019444, 39.0122222
| 2014-08-17
|http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ PostGIS tutorials and spatial analysis with PostGIS
| Rafael Moreno
| Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
|-
| 83.
| French Space Agency CNES
| Toulouse
| France
| Europe
| 1.481608, 43.561984
| 2014-07-17
| in the process of being established
| [[User:Grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]]
| manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr
|-
| 84.
| Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.203617, -34.905912
| 2014-08-15
| [https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/ gvSIG educa/batovi] [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/docentes/gvsigbatoviresumen gvSIG Batoví-Ceibal]
| Sergio Acosta Y Lara
| sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy
|-
| 85.
| [http://152.66.5.8/osgeolab/?lang=en Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054403, 47.481916
| 2014-08-19
| in/outdoor positioning, [http://www.geod.bme.hu/ulyxes sensor integration], QGIS plugins, MapServer, GRASS GIS, PostGIS, OSGeo Live, ... [http://osgeo.hu Tutorials], [http://foss4g.hu Conferences]
| [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]]
| siki.zoltan at epito.bme.hu
|-
| 86.
| Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
| Cambridge MA
| USA
| North America
|
| 2014-09-17
| Active, [http://worldmap.harvard.edu WorldMap]
| Ben Lewis
| blewis at cga.harvard.edu
|-
| 87.
| Community Mapping Lab Green Mountain College
| Poultney, VT
| USA
| North America
| -73.240679, 43.515866
| 2014-09-17
| in process of being established, http://gmcmaplab.blog.com/?page_id=50
| John Van Hoesen
| vanhoesenj at greenmtn.edu
|-
| 88.
| [http://nemac.unca.edu/ National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)], UNC Asheville
| Asheville, NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.55149, 35.59506
| 2014-09-18
| in process of being established
| John Derek Morgan
| jdmorgan at unca.edu
|-
| 89.
| [http://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/ Birds Eye View GIS]
| Albuquerque, NM
| USA
| North America
| -106.60893, 35.068353
| 2014-09-18
| FOSS4G Educator at Central New Mexico Community College, Del Mar College and the University of New Mexico. Co-author [https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis Mastering QGIS ], [http://foss4geo.org/ GeoAcademy], and author [https://locatepress.com/dqw Discover QGIS]
| Kurt Menke
| kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
|-
| 90.
| [http://gis.blog.ryerson.ca/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Ryerson University
| Toronto
| Canada
| North America
| -79.38097, 43.65910
| 2014-10-03
| Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| [[User:Crinner| Claus Rinner]]
| crinner at ryerson dot ca
|-
| 91.
| [http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/ School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management ], University of Queensland
| Brisbane
| Australia
| Australia
|
| 2014-12-12
| Website under construction
| David Pullar
| d.pullar at uq.edu.au
|-
| 92.
| [http://www-etis.ensea.fr/ ETIS Lab ENSEA UCP CNRS UMR 8051 ], University of Cergy Pontoise
| Cergy Pontoise
| France
| Europe
| 2.085741, 49.043274
| 2015-03-10
| Website under construction
| [[User:kotzino | Dimitris Kotzinos]]
| kotzino at gmail.com
|-
| 93.
| Department of Global Studies, Warren Wilson College
| Asheville NC
| USA
| North America
| -82.4420794, 35.6115585
| 2015-04-19
| Website under construction
| David Abernathy
| dabernathy@warren-wilson.edu
|-
| 94.
| The Spatial Lab, Dept of Geography & Environmental Studies Wilfrid Laurier University
| Waterloo, ON
| Canada
| North America
| -80.529557, 43.474073
| 2015-05-01
|
| Colin Robertson
| crobertson at wlu.ca
|-
| 95.
| National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences
| Cairo
| Egypt
| Africa
| 30.0500, 31.2333
| 2015-05-01
| Improving the quality of Education/Vocational Education using Geospatial Technology based on FOSS
| Rania Elsayed
| ranyaalsayed at gmail.com
|-
| 96.
| [http://sgugit.ru/en/collaboration/international-cooperation/siberian-opensource-geospatial-lab/ Geomatics and Virtual Reality Research Group], Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies
| Novosibirsk
| Russian Federation
| Europe
| 82.863503, 54.986816
| 2015-05-18
| In process of being established
| Alexey Kolesnikov, Pavel Kikin
| alekseykw at gmail.com, it-technologies at yandex.ru
|-
| 97.
| [http://smart.uow.edu.au/osgeo/index.html SMART Open Source Geospatial Laboratory], University of Wollongong
| Wollongong
| Australia
| Australia
| 150.87889, -34.40596
| 2014-10-17
|
| Dr Tomas Holderness
| tomas at uow.edu.au
|-
| 98.
| Department of Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.054717, 47.481911
| 2015-06-29
| [http://www.geoscope.hu geoscope lab]: Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, Curriculum development on QGIS
| Dr. Gyorgy Szabo
| szabo.gyorgy at epito.bme.hu
|-
|99.
| [http://www.etsu.edu/cas/geosciences/ Geospatial Exploration Lab, Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University]
| Johnson City, Tennessee
| USA
| North America
| -82.3700950, 36.3000590
| 2015-06-18
| Research and Applied Geospatial Projects; Research includes Hydrological Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar (GRP), Hazard/Disaster Modeling and Mapping, Climatological Modeling and Mapping, and Species Distribution Modeling; Applied Geospatial Projects include server- and app-based solutions for campus, local cities and counties, micro UAV (drone) videography and photo imaging, and community GIS support; Website: http://etsugeos.weebly.com/gel.html (Partially constructed)
| Dr. Andrew Joyner
| joynert@mail.etsu.edu
|-
|100.
| [http://www.geoinformatics.upol.cz/eosgeo Dept. of Geoinformatics, Palacký University Olomouc]
| Olomouc
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 17.26551,49.593812
| 2015-06-29
| Courses with open source products
| Dr. Rostislav Nétek
| rostislav.netek@upol.cz
|-
|101.
| [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/gis/OSGeo/osgeolablaunch University College London]
| London
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -0.133427,51.524773
| 2015-07-07
| Courses and research making extensive use of open source products and open data, run across UCL including Geomatic Engineering, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Geography and Archaeology.
| Dr. Claire Ellul
| c.ellul@ucl.ac.uk
|-
|102.
| [http://aworldbridge.com/ A World Bridge]
| Kodiak, Alaska
| USA
| North America
| -152.396023, 57.781399
| 2015-07-07
| Building advanced curriculum through the design and implementation of real-time, real-world, project-based learning environments.
| Ron Fortunato
| ron@trilliumlearning.com
|-
|103.
| [http://www.irea.cnr.it/en/ IREA-CNR]
| Via Edoardo Bassini, Milano
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.23434,45.48046
| 2015-10-05
| Activities of IREA in FOSS are mainly related to research in the management of geo-based data and information, and in the development of free and open software to enable storage, management, view and access to geodata.
| Alessandro Oggioni
| oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it
|-
|104.
| [http://g2c.heig-vd.ch/en/presentation/labs/geoinformatics-and-gis HEIG-VD GIS-Lab] University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland at Yverdon
| Route de Cheseaux 1, 1401 Yverdon-les-Bains
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.65950,46.77938
| 2015-10-08
| Key competences: spatial databases, modeling, data infrastructures, interoperability, webmapping, spatial webservices, spatial analysis, GIS project management, geovisualization, human-computer interaction and interface design
| Prof. Dr. Jens Ingensand
| jens.ingensand@heig-vd.ch
|-
|105.
| [http://www.gsc.aoyama.ac.jp/ Global Studies and Collaboration(GSC)], Aoyama Gakuin University
| Fuchinobe 5-10-1, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.4030, 35.5664
| 2015-11-05
| Courses with open source products and open data. In addition, There is OpenStreetMap basecamp/CrisisMappers Japan base.
| Prof. Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at gsc.aoyama.ac.jp
|-
|106.
| [http://rsgis.ait.ac.th/ Remote Sensing & GIS], Asian Institute of
Technology
| 58 Moo 9, Km. 42, Paholyothin Highway, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120
| Thailand
| Asia
| 100.612086, 14.079753
| 2015-11-24
| Open-source Web mapping, LBS, crowd sourcing, Sensor Web, OGC Web
Services and QGIS plugins; research, teaching, and consulting using OGS
Web Services,QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
| sarawutn at ait.ac.th
|-
|107.
| [http://www.aun.edu.ng/ Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group], School of Information Technology and Computing, American University of Nigeria
| 98 Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola By-Pass, P.M.B. 2250,Yola, Adamawa State
| Nigeria
| Africa
| 12.4996909, 9.1911318
| 2015-11-25
| Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software
| Prof. Kalum Priyanath Udagepola
| kalum.udagepola at aun.edu.ng
|-
|108.
|[http://geographydept.um.ac.ir/ Department of Geography]
| Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashad
| Iran
| Asia
| 59.534125,36.306903
| 2016-02-01
|
| Dr. Masoud Minaei
| m.minaei at um.ac.ir, minaei.masoud at gmail.com
|-
|109.
| [http://ladestlab.it Laboratorio Dati Economici Storici Territoriali] University of Siena
| Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 10 - 53100 Siena
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.332129,43.312688
| 2016-23-04
| Key competences: GIS; data collection; spatial analysis; territorial data mapping; agent-based spatial modelling; volunteered geographic information; social media analysis
| Prof. Cristina Capineri; Stefano Picascia
| {cristina,stefano}@ladestlab.it
|-
|110.
| [http://sarg.gisc.gr/en/ Spatial Analysis Research Group] Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens
| El. Venizelou 70, Kallithea 17671, Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.70755,37.96124
| 2016-19-06
| Key competences: spatial analysis; GIS; vizualisation; open data creation; QGIS, statistical programming with R; R package lctools; spatial inequalities; python; spatial interaction modelling
| Ass. Prof. Stamatis Kalogirou
| skalo@hua.gr
|-
|111.
| [http://www.pec.ac.in/ Department of Civil Engineering] PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India
| Sector 12, Chandigarh, 160012
| India
| Asia
| 76.780893,30.766247
| 2016-09-12
|
| Ass. Prof. Har Amrit Singh Sandhu
| haramritsingh.pec@gmail.com
|-
|112.
| DePaul University, Department of Geography
| Chicago
| USA
| North America
|
| 2016-10-28
|
| Cassandra Follett
| CFOLLETT@depaul.edu
|-
|113.
| University of Wisconsin, Cartography Lab
| Madison
| USA
| North America
|
| 2016-12-01
|
| Carl Sack
|cmsack@wisc.edu
|-
|-
|114.
| CANIS
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
|
| 2016-12-14
|
| Kiringai Kamau
| kiringai@gmail.com
|-
|}

=== "Geo for All" Government, Industry and NGO Partners ===

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!
! Organisation
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application received / Announced
! Notes (specify category etc)
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! Contact emails
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|1.
| [http://www.sourcepole.com Sourcepole]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.528522,47.370273
| 2015-07-03
| Partnership with [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Pirmin Kalberer
| info at sourcepole dot com
|-
|2.
| [http://www.attivarti.org Attivarti.org]
| Torniella
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.15382,43.07390
| 2015-07-12
| incubation phase (various links to OSGEO Community and to other geospatial players in Italy and internationally). Focus on VGI and participatory methods.
| Andrea Giacomelli
| mappare at attivarti dot org
|-
|3.
| [http://www.hunagi.hu HUNAGI]
| Budapest
| Hungary
| Europe
| 19.05561,46.48147
| 2015-08-12
| Free data, geodatabases, resource analysis, geospatial modelling and programming. (OSM, SRTM, QGIS, PyQGIS, Qt, GRASS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS)
| Ervin Wirth
| wirth dot ervin at hunagi dot hu
|-
|4.
| [http://www.wat-tube.it Wat-TUBE (spin-off University of Basilicata)]
| Potenza
| Italy
| Europe
| 15.807793,40.645470
| 2015-09-07
| Open-source and free (FOSS) software development in the field of flood and landslide risk, flood prediction and analysis, water resources management, hydrology.
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Raffalba Raffaele Albano]
| raffaele dot albano85 at gmail dot com
|-
|}

== Interested in joining or supporting the "Geo for All" initiative? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# North America - Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
# South America - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
# Europe - Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney (Ireland)
# Asia (including Australia)- Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
# Africa - Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

Email the regonial mailing lists and contact the region chairs to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process. The full criteria at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

=== Key requirements for joining the "Geo for All Labs" initiative ===

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[FOSS4G EU Como 2015 Preconference meeting]]
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== Geo for All Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
<br>
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

User:Sanand

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===[[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]===

[[File:Suchith anand.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Suchith Anand]]

Research Fellow at The University of Nottingham

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm ...more].

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:* Established [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1230 Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres] in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU
:* Charter member of OSGeo Foundation
:* Active member of OSGeo Edu
:* Develop and promote OSGeo Educational initiatives (ELOGeo)
:* Founder and Chair of [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx OSGIS conference series]
:* Invited speaker and presenter at conferences and events
:* Program Committee of many geospatial conferences
:* Building synergies between OSGeo and ICA
:* One of the founding members of the Open Source GIS Summer School initiative and the Geospatial Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data e-learning initiative.

;Contact:
: Email: Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk
: Phone (work): 44 (0)115 84 32750

;Profile last updated: 4th July, 2012

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[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

UnitedNations Committee

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== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.

===UN Open GIS initiative===
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."

===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===

1. Objectives

The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.

2. Terms of Reference

These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).

3. Membership

The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:

* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.

* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:

* Strategic Board:

* Co-Chairs and Secretariats

* Technical Advisory Group

* Requirement Advisory Group

* Assessment Team

* Spirals

4.1 Strategic Board (SB)

The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.

4.2 Co-Chairs

There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.

4.3 Secretariat

The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.

4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)

The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Assessment Team (AT)

The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.

4.6 Spirals

Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral, for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.

Annex

A. Definition of Open Source

Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.

B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of

* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)

* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)

* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)

* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)

* OSGeo (NGO)

* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)

* GeoSDI (Italy)

C. The list of Spirals is as follows;

- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito

- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli

- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang

- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li

D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of

- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado

- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito

- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li

- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata

- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli

- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono

- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom

- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed

- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi

E. The Co-Chairs are

- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)

- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)

- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)

F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of

- Danica Baptist

- Hae-Kyong Kang

(Modification History)

* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.

== Goals ==

* Support the UN's member states and committees through:
** OSGeo's service providers
** the GeoForAll network
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of the committee members at the end of this page.

== Activities ==

===October 2015===
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

===March 2016===
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining

===April 2016===
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers

===May - June - July 2016 ===
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani, Scott Hatcher, Ivana Ivanova, Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez, Paolo Corti, Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it:

Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee, and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Committee.

* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

===September 2016===
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

Four editions of this course will be issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses will be:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who will be involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.
Volunteers who will be activated if needed:
Darshana Rawal, Ivana Ivanova, Adeymo Ayodele Oba

===November 2016===
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* planned for November 2016, date and time to be decided

; Previous meetings:
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

== Chairs ==
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]

== Members ==
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]

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[[Category:Committees]]

Case Studies

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''This page lists Case Studies of projects that include Geospatial Open Source components.''

=Case Studies=

==OSGeo Journal==
'''The [http://www.osgeo.org/journal OSGeo Journal] includes many international Case Studies and introductions to OSGeo software.'''
* List of all article titles in the journal [http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/search/titles here]

==OSGeo-Live Open Source Overviews==
* [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live] contains 1 page project descriptions for more than 50 of the best GeoSpatial Open Source applications. (It also contains an ISO with all these applications installed, configured, and ready to test, along with quick-start documents for all applications.)

==Evaluation of FOSS4G software projects==
[http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=11/ CASCADOSS results on the evaluation marketing, technical and economical aspects of FOSS4G software projects. ]. The CASCADOSS project evaluated 51 of inventoried 98 FOSS4G software projects from 5 categories: desktop GIS/RS applications, server applications, spatial databases, development libraries and general interest projects.
The CASCADOSS website provides an [http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=17/ open framework for custom evaluations], allowing comparisons between projects to find best solution. The issues related to change from proprietary to OS GI software is also addressed.

==Web Clients==

=== Web Client Comparison ===
Table of cross project features.
* May 2010, [http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=comparaci%F3n-de-clientes-web-para-sig-v.4.html&Itemid=59&lang=en Web Map Client comparison (V4)]
* November 2009, [http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en Web Map Client comparison (V3)]

=== OpenLayers ===
* [http://docs.openlayers.org/casestudies/ OpenLayers Case Studies]. A collection of OpenLayers studies maintained by the OpenLayers community.
* President Obama's "Delivering On Change" website uses OpenLayers and OpenStreetMaps. http://www.whitehouse.gov/change/

* [http://www.terragis.net/2008/11/24/obama-campaign-mapping-voters-with-mapserver-postgis-and-openlayers/ Obama Campaign - Mapping voters with Mapserver, PostGIS and Openlayers]

=== Mapbender ===
* The Mapbender community maintains the [http://www.mapbender.org/Gallery Mapbender Gallery] with a list of solutions for specific domains ranging from city map services through specific applications to full scale geoportal implementations.

=== GeoMoose ===
* The GeoMoose project maintainers host a gallery of [http://www.geomoose.org/ GeoMoose] with an installation [http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMOOSE_Gallery Gallery List] of links to operating GeoMoose sites.

==Desktop Clients==

===Review of Open Source Desktop Clients===
* ''April 2008'' http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/ - A comprehensive feature by feature comparison of all the Open Source desktop clients.
* Municipality of Trento ([http://www.comune.tn.it/ Comune di Trento]), Italy, migration (2005-today): especially improvements in [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] are financed: new digitizer tool and better high quality cartographic output.
* 2010: "[http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Albk_XRkhVkzdGxyYk8tNEZvLUp1UTUzTFN5bjlLX2c&hl=en Matrix on OSGeo and COTS software functionality]"

===Compare ArcGIS against Open Source GIS Desktop===

''September 2009'' http://gothos.info/resource_files/fpd_libhitech_foss_gis_march2010.pdf

Compares ArcGIS against GRASS, QGIS, uDig, gvSIG,OpenJUMP, and MapWindow for the Library domain.

: "Each of the individual FOSS GIS packages had their own particular strengths and weaknesses and some performed well for thematic mapping. The FOSS packages generally were weaker compared to ArcGIS in terms of support for various projection and coordinate systems, joining attribute data to GIS files, and automatic labeling, but their advantage is that they were free in terms of cost and licensing restrictions. When coupled with plug-ins and helper applications the viability of the FOSS GIS packages increased."

===Email threads discussing merits and disadvantages of OSGeo Desktop===

'''18 April 2008: [http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking/2008-April/thread.html Geowanking: ArcView 3.1 replacement]'''

"[Oxford Archaeology] are looking at gvsig and qgis as the main options [for ArcGIS], gvsig because it can use cad data, and qgis because we like the grass integration and it's slightly more user-friendly for english speakers (the translated version of gvsig still has some spanish bits in it). With slight changes to our work-flows, we are finding that these two packages will do almost everything we need a gis to do, with the exception of producing high-quality illustrations. To achieve this we are currently looking at export to svg or postscript for final editing in inkscape, but that's a work in progress."

'''24 April 2008: [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/thread.html OSGeo-Discuss: Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?]'''

This email thread provides numerous opinions for and against using Open Source Geospatial Software.

[http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/003458.html Paul Ramsey notes there is not a direct Open Source replacement for Arc View]:

''I think it's contingent on us as evangelizers to not over-sell. I
would not recommend QGIS or any other open source desktop to someone
whose prior experience was Arc* until I had a clear understanding of
the use case. In response to the query "can I replace ArcView with
open source", my answer is "in general, no, but maybe for a specific
use case".''

[http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/003453.html John Callahan provides a good summary]:

''I've been an ESRI user (AV 3.x, ArcGIS 8/9, ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE) for 12+ years and have recently started exploring FOSS software. And I haven't disagreed with any of the responses so far. You will definitely need multiple programs to do what a single ESRI program can do. IMO, this is a good thing. One of the main reasons for my migration is I'm tired of running large, complicated, expensive software and all the extra baggage that comes with it to use only 10% of what the software can do. (see ArcGIS Server.)''

''You can do all the analysis and more of ArcGIS Desktop and extensions using GRASS, QGIS, SAGA, GeoTools, GDAL/OGR, PROJ4, or R Statistics along with a programming language like Python, Java or others. (IMO, this is a better solution than ESRI.) You can do just about anything you want on the web server end with MapServer, GeoServer, FeatureServer (and maybe TileCache or GeoNetwork for metadata) with any of a dozen or more clients (OpenLayers, ka-Map, MapGuide etc...). And you can do a lot of database work with Postgres/PostGIS, a much simpler, less costly solution than ArcSDE+RDBMS. And I wouldn't count out the role of free, non-open source packages like Google products and Oracle Express (11g should have Spatial included.)''

''From my experience (limited in the FOSS world), I have found three basic hurdles:
# ''Cartography. Whether on the screen, PDF outputs, or print publications, ArcMap is easy and looks great. (Although R Statistics produces better looking charts and graphs than ArcGIS.)''
# ''Versioned editing. This is important for groups with multiple concurrent editors or that has a particular hierarchical workflow with their GIS data.''
# ''Storage and serving of very large (50+ GB) raster datasets. PostGIS does not support rasters yet; Oracle Spatial does though. I'm still not sure if storing rasters in a database is a good idea but ArcSDE sure makes it easy, and with good performance when used in conjunction with other ESRI products.''

Current work addressing Open Source holes include:
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS#Digitizer Improving GRASS/qgis tools].
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Library Design plans for improving open source Cartographic Mapping].

=== GRASS ===

* List of [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_studies GRASS GIS Case Studies]

==== GRASS64 with ArcGIS93 in education at North Carolina State University ====

Case study of QGIS and GRASS GIS usage to generate [http://woostuff.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/qgis-grass-case-study-loc-gov-bushfire-hazard-mapping-a-cast-study/ bushfire risk areas] for a council in Australia

''December 2009, [http://courses.ncsu.edu/mea582/common/GIS_anal_syllabus/index.html Assignments for a course on Geospatial Modeling and Analysis with instructions for both GRASS and ArcGIS, including test datasets]''

==== GRASS vs SAGA ====
''September 2009, [http://www.igc.usp.br/pessoais/guano/downloads/Hengl_etal_2009_gmorph.pdf SAGA vs GRASS: A Comparative Analysis of the Two Open Source Desktop GIS for the Automated Analysis of Elevation Data]''

==== ARCGIS 9.0 vs GRASS 6.0 ====
''August 2005, [http://www.toddbuchanan.net/thesis_ver.pdf Comparison of ARCGIS 9.0 and GRASS 6.0]''

Todd Buchanan's master thesis compared ArcGIS 9.0 and GRASS 6.0 for a use case: "Characterization of Urban Sprawl for Eugene-Springfield, Oregon". He took detailed notes using both and found "ArcGIS is more straightforward than GRASS. However, GRASS proved itself fully capable of performing the operations required by the case study and outperformed ArcGIS in several categories."

Note: GRASS GIS is even better now and has been integrated with the user friendly QGIS and Sextante since this study.

=== uDig Case Studies ===

http://udig.refractions.net/gallery/
Collection of uDig case studies put together by Refractions.

=== QGIS Case Studies ===

* August 2015, "27 Differences Between ArcGIS and QGIS", http://gisgeography.com/qgis-arcgis-differences/
* http://qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies.html

Collection of QGIS case studies.

* http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/Report_542_Print.pdf 2014 QGIS vs ArcGIS comparison

=== gvSIG Case Studies ===

http://outreach.gvsig.org/case-studies/
Collection of gvSIG case studies.

==Web Services==

===[http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=101 Army Corps of Engineers Wetlands Regulatory program]===
''25 September 2007. Powerpoint presentation from FOSS4G Conference''

The Army Corps successfully integrated a Proprietary Oracle Database, ARC SDE and Analysis tools, with Open Source WMS and WFS services, and free viewers like Google Earth and Google Maps.

=== [http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/07/07/earthshaking-use-open-source An earthshaking use of open source] ===

Use of MapServer, Ingres and GMT among other tools by the BGR (a German institute responsible for the monitoring of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty).

=== [http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/gallery GeoServer Gallery] ===

Gallery of GeoServer installations with the occasional showcase of interesting technology or integration.

=== [http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/MapServerSites Map Server Sites] ===

Let's use this page to list sites that use MapServer, until a formal gallery is developed.

=== [http://deegree.org/deegree/portal/media-type/html/user/anon/page/default.psml/js_pane/gallery deegree Gallery] ===

Gallery of spatial data infrastructures based on deegree web services and clients.

==Metadata==
=== Comparing Open Source Catalogues ===
July 2010

Report comparing Buddata, Geonetwork & deegree CSW capabilities.

http://www.envision-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/D5.1-FINAL.pdf

==Databases==
===PostGIS Case Studies===
A collection of PostGIS Case Studies collected by Refractions. http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/casestudies/

===PostGIS vs Oracle Spatial benchmarking===
February 2012

"... Postgres performs better than Oracle 11g both in the Cold Phase and Warm Phase. Though in few queries Oracle 11g performed better but on the whole Postgres overpowered Oracle 11g. In the warm phase in 3 out of 4 queries Postgres performed significantly well, from this we can conclude that Postgres has better automatic memory management capabilities and page replacement policies... On the whole it is the open-source that wins the game!"

Full report: http://www.gise.cse.iitb.ac.in/wiki/images/c/c4/Finalreport.pdf

Summary: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2012/02/postgis-vs-oracle-spatial.html

===PostGIS versus MySQL Spatial===
June 2009

In speed, PostGIS wins but not by orders of magnitude. The amount of functionality in MySQL Spatial remains very very small. You can do simple store-and-retrieve operations. Many of the spatial operations that are standard in full spatial databases don’t exist or are (confusingly, as some users have commented) stubbed out against bounding box tests instead.
http://docs.opengeo.org/geospiel/2009/06/16/postgis-versus-mysql-spatial/

==Complete Infrastructure==

=== Open Source in Cadastre and Land Registration ===
''April 2010''

[http://www.fig.net/pub/fao/floss_cadastre.pdf FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risks]
Compiled by The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) in conjunction with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).

The publication provides an overview of open-source software applicable to cadastre and land registration, as well as practical case studies from countries using Open Source in this area.

===[http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvpontis&L=2 Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport]===
''in Spanish''
''(view [http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php%3Fid%3Dgvpontis%26L%3D2 English translation] by Google)''

Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is under a project of migrating "all" systems to open-source software. As a matter of fact, that was the reason to build [http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig0&L=2 gvSIG]. All geospatial infrastructure (previously with ESRI) has been moved to open source (gvSIG, PostGIS, MapServer, deegree, GeoNetwork opensource).

There is a [http://www.gvpontis.gva.es/fileadmin/conselleria/images/Documentacion/memoria/gvpontis_ingles.pdf final report] (PDF in English) of the gvPontis project.

===[http://www.orzancongres.com/administracion/upload/imgPrograma/N-004.pdf Hydrographic Confederation of Guadalquivir River, Spain]===
''in Spanish''
''(view [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2F209.85.173.104%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3ACTDxwL0ZUqoJ%3Awww.orzancongres.com%2Fadministracion%2Fupload%2FimgPrograma%2FN-004.pdf%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26cd%3D1%26gl%3Dau%26client%3Dfirefox-a&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 English translation] by Google)''

A migration of a big part of ESRI components to open-source has been made, with use of gvSIG, GeoNetwork opensource, MapServer, GeoServer, deegree.

===ROI from Geospatial Open Standards, study by NASA===
''April 2005''

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Geospatial Interoperability Office studied the Return On Investment from using Geospatial Open Standards. The study showed
"There is a significant improvement in functionality and mitigation of cost when using open as opposed to proprietary standards. The project that implemented geospatial interoperability standards had a risk-adjusted ROI, or "Savings to Investment" ratio, of 119.0 percent throughout the five-year project life cycle."

* [http://www.gpsworld.com/gis/management-and-processes/the-roi-geosciences-interoperability-standards-4684 Summary of Findings]
* [http://www.galdosinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/NASA_GI_ROI.pdf Copy of Report] (Original URL has suffered link rot)

===Predicted ROI for Australian Government to investment in a SDI===
''October 2007''

ACIL Tasman study reports a 10 to 20 times ROI should the Australian government invest in a Spatial Data Infrastructure.
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2608&trv=1 Article]
* [http://www.asiba.com.au/clients/asiba/UserFiles/File/Media%20Releases/Press%20Release301007.pdf Media Release]

===Predicted ROI for New Zealand Government to investment in a SDI===

''August 2009 ACIL Tasman, [http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/productivityreport/#_ftn1 Spatial Information in the New Zealand Economy]''

"... open source solutions are increasingly used in
implementations of SDIs and the New Zealand Government should
thoroughly explore how open source solutions can be employed because of the
potential advantages in cost and replicability."

===GeoSpatial Open Source in Education===

''February 2011, [http://geoinfo.sdsu.edu/hightech/WhitePaper/tsou_free-GIS-for-educators-whitepaper.pdf Free and Open Source Software for GIS education]''

A white paper which describes various open source software available for GIS educators.

=Open Data=
==Open Data Licensing in Australian Government==
''2008. [http://www.walis.wa.gov.au/projects_and_activities/assets/crc-si-qld-gilf-presentation-perth.ppt/view Government Information Licensing Framework]''

80% of Queensland, Australian government data can be opened up under Creative Commons, and the remaining data is planned to be released under an extensions to the Creative Common license.

==Open Data for Victorian state Government, Australia==
''June 2009 [http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/edic/inquiries/access_to_PSI/PSI_Inquiry_Media_Release.pdf Recommendation to free Public Sector Information].''

The Victorian Parliament’s Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee (“EDIC”) recommends the freeing of access to Public Sector Information at no or marginal cost.

==South Africa==
===[http://www.acts.co.za/prom_of_access_to_info/index.htm Promotion of Access to Information Act]===
"To give effect to the constitutional right of access to any information held by the State and any information that is held by another person and that is required for the exercise or protection of any rights; and to provide for matters connected therewith."
===[http://www.gissa.org.za/activities/government/sdi-act Spatial Data Infrastructure Act]===
"To establish the South African Spatial Data Infrastructure, the Committee for Spatial Information and an electronic metadata catalogue; to provide for the determination of standards and prescriptions with regard to the facilitation of the sharing of spatial information; to provide for the capture and publishing of metadata and the avoidance of duplication of such capture; and to provide for matters connected therewith."

=Open Source Policies=
These documents provide compelling reasons for selecting Open Source and Open Standards.

==European Union==

''February 2008, [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52008DC0046:EN:NOT Commission Communication towards a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS)]''

This Communication sets out an approach to modernise and simplify the collection, exchange and use of the data and information required for environemntal monitoring and reporting in Europe. Id defines a set of principles on the basis of which the collection, exchange and use of environmental data and information should be organised in the future. FOSS adressed directly as one of the principles information sharing and processing should be supported through common, free open-source software tools.

* Summarised highlights: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seis/

''June 2010, [https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/OSS-procurement-guideline-public-final-June2010-EUPL-FINAL.pdf EU Guidelines for Public Administrations purchasing software]''

This guide describes in business terms, the importance of using Open Standards in order to adhere to EU purchasing criteria of fair competition, transparency, and long term value for money.

* Summarised highlights: http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/10/eu-guidelines-for-public.html

''January 2013, [http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seis/pdf/seis_implementation_en.pdf Staff Working Document "EU Shared Environmental Information System – Implementation Outlook"]''

The EU Digital Agenda for Europe initiative supports the SEIS principle aiming to generate information sharing through common, free, open source software. For example, an EU legal framework for licensing open source software now exists (ISA EUPL) and governments are increasingly keen to develop its use. Actions under the EU Digital Agenda are creating a safer and better-performing digital environment, improving access conditions and interoperability and stimulating the growth of cross-border e-Government services. The open source and open data movement offers significant opportunities for further developing the SEIS but
more open-source empowered applications ensuring compatibility across Member States will be needed for managing and sharing environmental information

==Australia==
''June 2011, [http://www.finance.gov.au/files/2012/04/AGuidetoOpenSourceSoftware.pdf A Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies]''

# Agencies will be required to insert a statement into any Request for Tender that they will consider open source software equally alongside proprietary software.
# Australian Government agencies will require suppliers to consider all types of available software (including but not limited to open source software and proprietary software) when responding to agencies' procurement requests.
# Australian Government agencies will actively participate in open source software communities and contribute back where appropriate.

==New Zealand ==
April 2016, Draft Open Source Policy
* "Draft document for extending the New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework to cover guidance for government agencies on applying open source licenses to publicly funded software development."
* Describes best practice application of Open Source, once a decision has been made to use Open Source.
* https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-government/new-zealand-government-open-access-and-licensing-nzgoal-framework/nzgoal-se/

''13 March 2008, [http://research.elabs.govt.nz/2008/03/13/ministry-of-justice-open-source-adoption-paper/ Ministry of Justice Open Source Strategy Paper]''
* Proposes when Open Source should be used over Proprietary software, and concludes that Open Source better than Proprietary, all other things being equal.

==Canada==
''July 2011 [http://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2011/07/open-data-signals-new-direction-for-bc-government.html British Columbia Policy on Open Data]''

Open Data

1. Ministries must take steps to expand public access to government data by making it available online unless restricted by law, contract or policy.

2. Ministries must re-prioritize and expand data collection efforts towards those that enable citizens and sectors to create value from government data.

3. Ministries must adopt B.C.'s open license for data and ensure data accessibility through DataBC in accordance with B.C.'s Open Data Policy, which includes the requirement that data be published in an open machine-readable format.

4. DataBC must ensure that citizens can give feedback on and assessment of the quality of published information and provide input to which data should be prioritized for publication.

Open Information

1. To the extent practicable and subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPPA) and other valid restrictions, ministries should use modern technology to disseminate useful information in a routine way rather than waiting for specific requests under FOIPPA.

==South Africa==
The South African Government through its Open Source Project Office and the State IT Agency (SITA) is active with open source and interoperability policy development and implementation.

Browse and download most of the important documents '''[http://www.gissa.org.za/special-interest-groups/open-source/folder_contents HERE]'''.

The South African FOSS Policy which was approved in 2007 urges government to implement FOSS:
*'''Choose FOSS''': The South African government will implement FOSS unless proprietary software proves to be significantly superior. Whenever the advantages of FOSS and proprietary software are comparable FOSS will be implemented when choosing a software solution for a new project. Whenever FOSS is not implemented, then reasons must be provided to justify implementing proprietary software.
*'''Use FOSS/Open Content Licensing''': The South African government will ensure all government content and content developed using government resources is made Open Content, unless analysis on specific content shows that proprietary licensing or confidentiality is substantially beneficial.
*'''Develop in FOSS''': All new software developed for or by the South African government will be based on open standards, adherent to FOSS principles, and be licensed using a FOSS license where possible.
*'''Migrate to FOSS''': The South African government will migrate current proprietary software to FOSS whenever comparable software exists.
*'''Promote FOSS in South Africa''': The South African government will encourage the use of Open Content and Open Standards within South Africa. They will encourage the use of Open Content and Open Standards.

For more recent and additional content visit these sites:
*[http://www.oss.gov.za/ SA Government Open Source Project Office]
*[http://www.sita.co.za/FOSS/FOSS1.html SITA FOSS Office]

==United Kingdom==
February 2009, ''[http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/318020/open_source.pdf Government Policy on Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use]''

Summarised highlights from the policy:
* Government procurement will fairly consider open source solutions alongside proprietary ones and will take into account total cost of ownership, including exit and transition costs.
* The Government will, wherever possible, avoid becoming locked in to proprietary software.
*The Government will require solutions to comply with open standards.
* Where appropriate, general purpose software developed for government will be released on an open source basis.

Example case studies from local authorities

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead case study
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2016/03/using-open-source-gis-in-the-public-sector/

Warwickshire County Council by adopting an open-source solution for the council’s internal web GIS has inaddition to immediate cost savings has also got the longer-term benefit of having a sustainable web GIS that the council has control over.
Details at https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/case-studies/warwickshire-county-council-new-web-gis.html

== Indian Government ==
March 2015, Policy on Adoption of Open Source Software for
Government of India: http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/policy_on_adoption_of_oss.pdf. [http://thenextweb.com/in/2015/03/30/india-wants-to-use-more-open-source-software-to-build-e-governance-apps/ News article].

"The government of India shall endeavor to adopt open source software in all e-government systems implemented by various government organizations, as a preferred option in comparison to closed source software."

==US Department of Defense==
''October 2009, [http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/sites/oss/ Guidance regarding Open Source Software]].'' and a [http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/defense-department-releases-op.html news report].

==US Navy==
''April 2006, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070324082448/http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf US Navy Open Technology Development Roadmap Plan].''

Describes how the US Navy will migrate to Open Technology Development when purchasing and building software.

Open Technology Development combines salient advances in the following areas:
* Open Standards and Interfaces
* Open Source Software and Designs
* Collaborative/Distributive culture and the and online support tools
* Technological Agility

Also, a much shorter news article on the same topic from March 2008. [http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151858-1.html The Navy will acquire only systems based on open technologies and standards].

The Original Paper was stored [http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf here].

==US Government - Open Source Policy==
Open Source Policy Draft, as at April 2016, https://sourcecode.cio.gov/

==US Government - Open Government Initiatives==
September 2014, http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/new_nap_commitments_report_092314.pdf
;Promote Open Education to Increase Awareness and Engagement
: Open education is the open sharing of digital learning materials, tools, and practices that ensures free access to and legal adoption of learning resources

;Deliver Government Services More Effectively Through Information Technology
:The Administration is committed to serving the American people more effectively and efficiently through smarter IT delivery.

;Increase Transparency in Spending

;Use Big Data to Support Greater Openness and Accountability

== Open Source Software Economics ==
''April 2007, [http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2007/05/economic-motivation-of-open-source.html The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives]''

Dirk Riehle. "The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives." IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 4 (April 2007). Page 25-32.

== Norwegian Mapping Authority ==
''From the [http://www.osor.eu/studies/norwegian-mapping-authority OSOR News item] published Mar 24, 2010''

The Norwegian Mapping Authority (Statens Kartverk) is the central organisation for the provision of mapping images to most public bodies and organisations in Norway. After experiencing a vast increase in requests for their services in 2006 and 2007, the Mapping Authority also had to deal with an increasingly overstrained IT infrastructure. The licenses for their infrastructure however were very costly, and acquiring additional licenses would only increase the financial burden consistently in the future. The Mapping Authority therefore chose to employ an IT infrastructure based on open source software solutions, which were free of licensing costs and which proved to be much better, performance wise. In the process of introducing the new IT infrastructure, the team had to build up own expertise in order to maintain a functioning system. With the help of online communities, this has been a great success for the Mapping Authority.

=Comparisons=
==ArcGIS 10.3 vs QGIS 2.8.1==
http://gisgeography.com/qgis-arcgis-differences/

==MapInfo vs QGIS 1.6==
https://nathanw.net/2010/12/06/mapinfo-and-qgis-an-overview/

==Feature Comparison Spreadsheet==
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nNEtjWBROepTzGgTjZ8PslWyv7z_QqzgF1uRSm-0at0/edit?authkey=CPGQ26EG#gid=0

=Why write a Case Study?=
A case study discusses how a specific situation was identified, which solutions were investigated and selected, and a summary of the results.

Solution architects use relevant case studies to support a solution they are building.

Writing a case study about your project gives others the confidence to follow in your footsteps which in turn increases investment in your tools of choice. Publishing your experience gives '''positive feedback''' to those involved in your project, reinforcing your success, encouraging colleagues to take on additional challenges, allowing the project to continue to grow.

We would like to see case studies which cover a range of use cases, especially from organizations with a low risk tolerance. Many organizations approach Open Source in little steps gradually integrating it with existing infrastructure and find targeted small case studies valuable.

=What to write?=

One to three pages is good, with a graphic per page.

The case study should cover:
* Date
* Problem
* Evaluations
* Implementation, including integration with other infrastructure
* Problems faced and how they were overcome
* Return on Investment
* Future plans
* Who else might benefit from your experience

More hints found by googling: [http://www.klariti.com/business-writing/How-To-Write-Case-Study.shtml How to write a Case Study]

=How to publish?=
Consider submitting an article to the [http://www.osgeo.org/journal OSGeo Journal].
Here are the basic [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_License_and_Guidelines guidelines] for authors.

[[Category:Advocacy]]

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-10T00:01:23Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science was started . In 2015, The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) setup a dedicated committee for Open Geosciences. Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards , open educational resources and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” [1] was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Thanks to our colleagues globally, we now have dedicated research labs through Geo4All globally , dedicated journals etc [2],[3] in place to help advance the discipline for the future. It is this global research outlook that is fundamental to the success of any new discipline. It is now time for us to think and plan actions for the future and it is important that we bring together ideas/inputs from the wider community and harness the wisdom to help shape our vision for Open Geospatial Science for 2030 and builds synergies with the three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World [4].

This open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science will be a process .To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.In true spirit of Open Science, we will make available a wikipage in Geo4All with the initial ideas generated after the Think Tank and welcome the community for inputs .Together we all can shape the research agenda for Open Geospatial Science for the future and help build more ideas to enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for advancing the discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities.

'''Background'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[4]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [5],[6],[7].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles (Promoting an open research culture)

'''* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science'''

Overview slides at http://www.slideshare.net/SuchithAnand/open-geospatial-science-vision-2030

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs [8] to show us how we can together achieve this vision. We also welcome all those interested to join the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)’s Open Geoscience committee [9].

=========================================================================

'''Outcomes of the Think Tank discussions on Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# ACCESS TO DATA
# DISCOVERY OF DATA
# VALIDATION OF DATA
# LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global initiative such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

'''Group 2 – Open tools and infrastructures needs/requirements for enhancing Citizen Science contributions for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030''' (Summary notes by Jon Corbett and Jeremy Morley)

Two key issues - both technical and social are key for framing the smart cities agenda for the future

* How to contribute (Passive -> Active)
* Ethics of contribution
* Who contributes to Smart Cities dialogue - Macro level or Micro level?
* Cant disregard the individual. It needs to encompass a range of engagement approaches
* Range of stakeholders increases complexity
* Need to consider the range of projects across different scales and different project outcomes
* Proximity to the issue is important (conceptually and geographically)
* How do you want people to contribute?
* Not simply a user experience - Interface issue
* People need to understand why they are contributing, how the data will be used , need to give feedback
* Education to create normalcy in people contributing
* Motivation remain a key issue (more we require from users - less likely to participate
* Who decides what the problem is?
* Are we overly limiting contributions by working in exclusively digital environments
* What are the motivations to gather data
* Data collection/ management /storage = Expensive
* How does this impact sustainability of the system
* Citizen Science sourced data and interoperability remain important

====================================================================

REFERENCES:

[1] http://www.geoforall.org/
[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[3] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
[4] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[5] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[6] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/05/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world/
[7] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/urban-biggeodata.aspx
[8] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/06/open-consultation-on-the-vision-2030-for-open-geospatial-science/
[9] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-10T00:00:48Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science was started . In 2015, The Open source Geospatial Foundation setup a dedicated committee for Open Geosciences. Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards , open educational resources and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” [1] was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Thanks to our colleagues globally, we now have dedicated research labs through Geo4All globally , dedicated journals etc [2],[3] in place to help advance the discipline for the future. It is this global research outlook that is fundamental to the success of any new discipline. It is now time for us to think and plan actions for the future and it is important that we bring together ideas/inputs from the wider community and harness the wisdom to help shape our vision for Open Geospatial Science for 2030 and builds synergies with the three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World [4].

This open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science will be a process .To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.In true spirit of Open Science, we will make available a wikipage in Geo4All with the initial ideas generated after the Think Tank and welcome the community for inputs .Together we all can shape the research agenda for Open Geospatial Science for the future and help build more ideas to enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for advancing the discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities.

'''Background'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[4]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [5],[6],[7].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles (Promoting an open research culture)

'''* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science'''

Overview slides at http://www.slideshare.net/SuchithAnand/open-geospatial-science-vision-2030

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs [8] to show us how we can together achieve this vision. We also welcome all those interested to join the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)’s Open Geoscience committee [9].

=========================================================================

'''Outcomes of the Think Tank discussions on Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# ACCESS TO DATA
# DISCOVERY OF DATA
# VALIDATION OF DATA
# LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global initiative such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

'''Group 2 – Open tools and infrastructures needs/requirements for enhancing Citizen Science contributions for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030''' (Summary notes by Jon Corbett and Jeremy Morley)

Two key issues - both technical and social are key for framing the smart cities agenda for the future

* How to contribute (Passive -> Active)
* Ethics of contribution
* Who contributes to Smart Cities dialogue - Macro level or Micro level?
* Cant disregard the individual. It needs to encompass a range of engagement approaches
* Range of stakeholders increases complexity
* Need to consider the range of projects across different scales and different project outcomes
* Proximity to the issue is important (conceptually and geographically)
* How do you want people to contribute?
* Not simply a user experience - Interface issue
* People need to understand why they are contributing, how the data will be used , need to give feedback
* Education to create normalcy in people contributing
* Motivation remain a key issue (more we require from users - less likely to participate
* Who decides what the problem is?
* Are we overly limiting contributions by working in exclusively digital environments
* What are the motivations to gather data
* Data collection/ management /storage = Expensive
* How does this impact sustainability of the system
* Citizen Science sourced data and interoperability remain important

====================================================================

REFERENCES:

[1] http://www.geoforall.org/
[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[3] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
[4] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[5] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[6] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/05/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world/
[7] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/urban-biggeodata.aspx
[8] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/06/open-consultation-on-the-vision-2030-for-open-geospatial-science/
[9] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-09T12:02:45Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science was started . Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards , open educational resources and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” [1] was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Thanks to our colleagues globally, we now have dedicated research labs through Geo4All globally , dedicated journals etc [2],[3] in place to help advance the discipline for the future. It is this global research outlook that is fundamental to the success of any new discipline. It is now time for us to think and plan actions for the future and it is important that we bring together ideas/inputs from the wider community and harness the wisdom to help shape our vision for Open Geospatial Science for 2030 and builds synergies with the three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World [4].

This open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science will be a process .To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.In true spirit of Open Science, we will make available a wikipage in Geo4All with the initial ideas generated after the Think Tank and welcome the community for inputs .Together we all can shape the research agenda for Open Geospatial Science for the future and help build more ideas to enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for advancing the discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities.

'''Background'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[4]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [5],[6],[7].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles (Promoting an open research culture)

'''* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science'''

Overview slides at http://www.slideshare.net/SuchithAnand/open-geospatial-science-vision-2030

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs [8] to show us how we can together achieve this vision.

=========================================================================

'''Outcomes of the Think Tank discussions on Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# ACCESS TO DATA
# DISCOVERY OF DATA
# VALIDATION OF DATA
# LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global initiative such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

'''Group 2 – Open tools and infrastructures needs/requirements for enhancing Citizen Science contributions for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030''' (Summary notes by Jon Corbett and Jeremy Morley)

Two key issues - both technical and social are key for framing the smart cities agenda for the future

* How to contribute (Passive -> Active)
* Ethics of contribution
* Who contributes to Smart Cities dialogue - Macro level or Micro level?
* Cant disregard the individual. It needs to encompass a range of engagement approaches
* Range of stakeholders increases complexity
* Need to consider the range of projects across different scales and different project outcomes
* Proximity to the issue is important (conceptually and geographically)
* How do you want people to contribute?
* Not simply a user experience - Interface issue
* People need to understand why they are contributing, how the data will be used , need to give feedback
* Education to create normalcy in people contributing
* Motivation remain a key issue (more we require from users - less likely to participate
* Who decides what the problem is?
* Are we overly limiting contributions by working in exclusively digital environments
* What are the motivations to gather data
* Data collection/ management /storage = Expensive
* How does this impact sustainability of the system
* Citizen Science sourced data and interoperability remain important

====================================================================

REFERENCES:

[1] http://www.geoforall.org/
[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[3] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
[4] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[5] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[6] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/05/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world/
[7] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/urban-biggeodata.aspx
[8] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/06/open-consultation-on-the-vision-2030-for-open-geospatial-science/

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-09T09:14:20Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science was started . Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards , open educational resources and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” [1] was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Thanks to our colleagues globally, we now have dedicated research labs through Geo4All globally , dedicated journals etc [2],[3] in place to help advance the discipline for the future. It is this global research outlook that is fundamental to the success of any new discipline. It is now time for us to think and plan actions for the future and it is important that we bring together ideas/inputs from the wider community and harness the wisdom to help shape our vision for Open Geospatial Science for 2030 and builds synergies with the three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World [4].

This open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science will be a process .To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.In true spirit of Open Science, we will make available a wikipage in Geo4All with the initial ideas generated after the Think Tank and welcome the community for inputs .Together we all can shape the research agenda for Open Geospatial Science for the future and help build more ideas to enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for advancing the discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities.

'''Background'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[4]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [5],[6],[7].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles (Promoting an open research culture)

'''* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science'''

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision.

=========================================================================

'''Outcomes of the Think Tank discussions on Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# ACCESS TO DATA
# DISCOVERY OF DATA
# VALIDATION OF DATA
# LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global initiative such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

'''Group 2 – Open tools and infrastructures needs/requirements for enhancing Citizen Science contributions for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030''' (Summary notes by Jon Corbett and Jeremy Morley)

Two key issues - both technical and social are key for framing the smart cities agenda for the future

* How to contribute (Passive -> Active)
* Ethics of contribution
* Who contributes to Smart Cities dialogue - Macro level or Micro level?
* Cant disregard the individual. It needs to encompass a range of engagement approaches
* Range of stakeholders increases complexity
* Need to consider the range of projects across different scales and different project outcomes
* Proximity to the issue is important (conceptually and geographically)
* How do you want people to contribute?
* Not simply a user experience - Interface issue
* People need to understand why they are contributing, how the data will be used , need to give feedback
* Education to create normalcy in people contributing
* Motivation remain a key issue (more we require from users - less likely to participate
* Who decides what the problem is?
* Are we overly limiting contributions by working in exclusively digital environments
* What are the motivations to gather data
* Data collection/ management /storage = Expensive
* How does this impact sustainability of the system
* Citizen Science sourced data and interoperability remain important

====================================================================

REFERENCES:

[1] http://www.geoforall.org/
[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[3] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
[4] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[5] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[6] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/05/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world/
[7] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/urban-biggeodata.aspx

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-09T08:52:52Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science was started . Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards , open educational resources and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” [1] was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Thanks to our colleagues globally, we now have dedicated research labs through Geo4All globally , dedicated journals etc [2],[3] in place to help advance the discipline for the future. It is this global research outlook that is fundamental to the success of any new discipline. It is now time for us to think and plan actions for the future and it is important that we bring together ideas/inputs from the wider community and harness the wisdom to help shape our vision for Open Geospatial Science for 2030 and builds synergies with the three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World [4].

This open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science will be a process .To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.In true spirit of Open Science, we will make available a wikipage in Geo4All with the initial ideas generated after the Think Tank and welcome the community for inputs .Together we all can shape the research agenda for Open Geospatial Science for the future and help build more ideas to enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for advancing the discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities.

'''Background'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[4]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [5],[6],[7].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles (Promoting an open research culture)

'''* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science'''

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision.

=========================================================================

'''Outcomes of the Think Tank discussions on Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# ACCESS TO DATA
# DISCOVERY OF DATA
# VALIDATION OF DATA
# LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global initiative such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

REFERENCES:

[1] http://www.geoforall.org/
[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[3] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
[4] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[5] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[6] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/05/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world/
[7] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/urban-biggeodata.aspx

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-09T08:52:00Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science was started . Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards , open educational resources and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” [1] was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Thanks to our colleagues globally, we now have dedicated research labs through Geo4All globally , dedicated journals etc [2],[3] in place to help advance the discipline for the future. It is this global research outlook that is fundamental to the success of any new discipline. It is now time for us to think and plan actions for the future and it is important that we bring together ideas/inputs from the wider community and harness the wisdom to help shape our vision for Open Geospatial Science for 2030 and builds synergies with the three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World [4].

This open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science will be a process .To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.In true spirit of Open Science, we will make available a wikipage in Geo4All with the initial ideas generated after the Think Tank and welcome the community for inputs .Together we all can shape the research agenda for Open Geospatial Science for the future and help build more ideas to enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for advancing the discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities.

'''Background'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[4]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [5],[6],[7].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles (Promoting an open research culture)

'''* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science'''

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision.

=========================================================================

'''Outcomes of the Think Tank discussions on Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# ACCESS TO DATA
# DISCOVERY OF DATA
# VALIDATION OF DATA
# LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global network such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

REFERENCES:

[1] http://www.geoforall.org/
[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[3] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
[4] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[5] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[6] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/05/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world/
[7] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/urban-biggeodata.aspx

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-09T08:51:03Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science was started . Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards , open educational resources and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” [1] was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Thanks to our colleagues globally, we now have dedicated research labs through Geo4All globally , dedicated journals etc [2],[3] in place to help advance the discipline for the future. It is this global research outlook that is fundamental to the success of any new discipline. It is now time for us to think and plan actions for the future and it is important that we bring together ideas/inputs from the wider community and harness the wisdom to help shape our vision for Open Geospatial Science for 2030 and builds synergies with the three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World [4].

This open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science will be a process .To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.In true spirit of Open Science, we will make available a wikipage in Geo4All with the initial ideas generated after the Think Tank and welcome the community for inputs .Together we all can shape the research agenda for Open Geospatial Science for the future and help build more ideas to enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for advancing the discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities.

'''Background'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[4]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [5],[6],[7].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our aim for Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles (Promoting an open research culture)

'''* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science'''

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision.

=========================================================================

'''Outcomes of the Think Tank discussions on Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# ACCESS TO DATA
# DISCOVERY OF DATA
# VALIDATION OF DATA
# LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global network such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

REFERENCES:

[1] http://www.geoforall.org/
[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[3] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
[4] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[5] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[6] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/05/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world/
[7] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/urban-biggeodata.aspx

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-09T08:50:09Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science was started . Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards , open educational resources and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” [1] was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Thanks to our colleagues globally, we now have dedicated research labs through Geo4All globally , dedicated journals etc [2],[3] in place to help advance the discipline for the future. It is this global research outlook that is fundamental to the success of any new discipline. It is now time for us to think and plan actions for the future and it is important that we bring together ideas/inputs from the wider community and harness the wisdom to help shape our vision for Open Geospatial Science for 2030 and builds synergies with the three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World [4].

This open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science will be a process .To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.In true spirit of Open Science, we will make available a wikipage in Geo4All with the initial ideas generated after the Think Tank and welcome the community for inputs .Together we all can shape the research agenda for Open Geospatial Science for the future and help build more ideas to enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for advancing the discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities.

'''Background'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[4]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [5],[6],[7].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our aim for Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles (Promoting an open research culture)

* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision.

=========================================================================

'''Outcomes of the Think Tank discussions on Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# ACCESS TO DATA
# DISCOVERY OF DATA
# VALIDATION OF DATA
# LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global network such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

REFERENCES:

[1] http://www.geoforall.org/
[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[3] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
[4] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[5] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[6] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/05/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world/
[7] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/urban-biggeodata.aspx

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-09T08:49:11Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science was started . Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards , open educational resources and open access to research publications) .“Geo for All” [1] was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. Thanks to our colleagues globally, we now have dedicated research labs through Geo4All globally , dedicated journals etc [2],[3] in place to help advance the discipline for the future. It is this global research outlook that is fundamental to the success of any new discipline.

It is now time for us to think and plan actions for the future and it is important that we bring together ideas/inputs from the wider community and harness the wisdom to help shape our vision for Open Geospatial Science for 2030 and builds synergies with the three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World [4].

This open consultation on the Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science will be a process .To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.In true spirit of Open Science, we will make available a wikipage in Geo4All with the initial ideas generated after the Think Tank and welcome the community for inputs .Together we all can shape the research agenda for Open Geospatial Science for the future and help build more ideas to enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for advancing the discipline and accelerating new discoveries to help solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to sustainable cities.

'''Background'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[4]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [5],[6],[7].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our aim for Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles (Promoting an open research culture)

* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision.

=========================================================================

'''Outcomes of the Think Tank discussions on Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# ACCESS TO DATA
# DISCOVERY OF DATA
# VALIDATION OF DATA
# LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global network such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

REFERENCES:

[1] http://www.geoforall.org/
[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[3] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
[4] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[5] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[6] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/05/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world/
[7] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/urban-biggeodata.aspx

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-09T08:30:07Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[1]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [2],[3],[4].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We were laughed at initially by some because we did not have any initial funding when we decided to start “Geo for All” . We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our aim for Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles

* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision.

=========================================================================

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# ACCESS TO DATA
# DISCOVERY OF DATA
# VALIDATION OF DATA
# LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global network such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[2] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[3] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[4] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-09T08:29:18Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[1]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [2],[3],[4].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We were laughed at initially by some because we did not have any initial funding when we decided to start “Geo for All” . We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our aim for Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles

* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision.

=========================================================================

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:

# 1. ACCESS TO DATA
# 2. DISCOVERY OF DATA
# 3. VALIDATION OF DATA
# 4. LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
# 5. SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global network such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[2] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[3] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[4] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-09T08:28:14Z

Sanand:

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

In May 2016, EC published a book titled - Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe , the extracts below

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[1]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

'''A Vision of the Future'''

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [2],[3],[4].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We were laughed at initially by some because we did not have any initial funding when we decided to start “Geo for All” . We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our aim for Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles

* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision.

=========================================================================

To start this process, Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance and Geo for All organised a Think Tank meeting on 7th June 2016 at the University of Nottingham bringing together top scientists, academics and government agencies to discuss ideas forward. We chose the theme of Urban GeoBigData and OpenCitySmart to expand ideas on this.

The participants were divided into two groups

Focussed Think Tank discussions (split into two topic groups )  

'''Group 1 – Open Data needs/requirements for OpenCitySmart and how it can contribute to Open Geospatial Science vision 2030 (Summary of notes by Peter Mooney)'''

What are our open data needs in this respect?

There is lots of Open Data published already isn't there? The problem is that Open Data is published along a spectrum of actionable open data – there is lots of open data published as PDFs containing summaries or synthesis of raw data. Why can the raw data not be made available? We then have examples in the UK such as the Ordnance Survey who publish a very large amount of Open Geospatial Data.
ACCESS TERMS: For some large respositories of Open Data or Open Datasets the access terms are often very legally complex. For citizens and small scale users such as research groups or SMEs this is often a major challenge to understand what these legal conditions mean in practice. This can delay discovery and use of these datasets.

The FREQUENCY OF UPDATE of Open Data is also something which much be carefully considered as a requirement. For situations or use-cases such as Planning there is a slow refresh or update rate of data requirements. But for operational scenarios in a city such as transportation planning or optimisation (day to day services) more high frequency updates to Open Data are often required.

In the PROVISION OF OPEN DATA there is much emphasis in the discussions on services which make Open Data available to citizens. But what are the INCENTIVES to citizens to contribute their own Open Data? Some value must be given back to users – for example this might be in relation to privacy issues. Users could be given some flexibility or control over how their contributed data could be used.

The issue of PRIVACY was discussed several times during the discussion. Can the citizen who is contributing their social data, their movement data, etc have some control over the destiny of this information? Once this data becomes Open Data it is free to be used for any scenario. Very often it can be the case that the moment that a citizen makes their data Open Data they actually lose control over their data and find themselves in a scenario where they do not own their own data. This happens frequently for many web-based services and smartphone applications where the users data is what the company really wants and then claims ownership over this through user license and user usage agreements.

But can citizens CONTROL THEIR PRIVACY? There are two principal means by which citizens can contribute open data (and indeed open geospatial data) to a Smart City scenario – via PASSIVE or ACTIVE means. In the passive scenario a user may not actually know that they are contributing data or may not understand the level of detail of this contributed data. But in passive scenarios this personal open data can then become closed and proprietary creating an OPEN DATA DIGITAL DIVIDE. In the active scenario the user has much more control and if they are well informed about the types of data they are contributing they can make decisions about how active they wish to be.

A major RESEARCH CHALLENGE was identified in trying to consider the needs for the vision of Open Geospatial Science 2030.

We need to articulate and understand the types of open data that are possible? This understanding could be organised by considering the following characteristics:
• Open Data availability
• What are the actual sources of Open Data – this includes those sources of data which can fit into the API-centric OpenCitySmart platform
• Who are the actual Open Data users?
• Who are the actual Open Data generators?
• What are the different levels of granularity for Open Data?

When these questions are considered across the scope of a city then this is a major undertaking.
Considering this as a bottom up approach might make ths completely unfeasible. Therefore it is important to generate user cases and challenges which we want to tackle with Open Geospatial Data 2030.
Each use case would define the metadata requirements for their datasets, data services or data sources. Some metadata requirements for specific use cases might be more detailed than others.
The key strategy is to look at the questions we want to answer. What are the user's needs vrs the users actually knowing what they want from Open Geospatial Data. The idea of user here encapsulates the entire spectrum of users of Open Geospatial Data 2030 from individual citizens to governments to large corporations.

For the 2030 Vision what are the high level building blocks we must consider:
1. ACCESS TO DATA
2. DISCOVERY OF DATA
3. VALIDATION OF DATA
4. LEGALITY AND USAGE CONDITIONS
5. SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE

Consideration of the application of the FAIR principle – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
These building blocks must be dyamic – to change and move as technologies and societies change towards 2030.
Example case-study: Vernacular terms in geospatial contexts. Have we got a handle on this? This needs to be done on a global scale. This is something a global network such as Geo4All could look at as a research question.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[2] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[3] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[4] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-08T04:47:34Z

Sanand:

Open geospatial science - vision 2030

2016-06-08T04:31:50Z

Sanand: Created page with " '''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030''' The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and..."

'''Open Geospatial Science - Vision 2030'''

The way that science works is fundamentally changing and an equally important transformation is taking place in how companies and societies innovate. The advent of digital technologies is making science and innovation more open, collaborative and global. In this light Commissioner Carlos Moedas has set three goals for EU research and innovation policy: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World. These three goals were first discussed by Commissioner Moedas in a speech in June 2015, showing how research and innovation contribute across the political priorities of the European Commission. These goals do not represent a new policy initiative or funding programme as such, but a way to reinforce existing programmes such as Horizon 2020, and reinvigorate existing policies such as the European Research Area. The book Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World – a vision for Europe brings together some of the key conceptual insights behind the “Three Os” and highlights actions that are already taking place or are being prepared at time of publication in May 2016. It is hoped that the ideas and initiatives described in the book will stimulate anyone interested in European research and innovation, and encourage debate and lead to new ideas on what the European Union should do, should not do, or do differently.[1]

You can download the book from the EU Bookshop at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Extract from the book on Open Science below

A Vision of the Future

The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited opportunities for research and discovery worldwide. Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions, public and private research funders, students and education professionals as well as companies from around the globe are sharing an open, virtual environment, called The Lab. Open source communities and scientists, publishing companies and the high-tech industry have pushed the EU and UNESCO to develop common open research standards, establishing a virtual learning gateway, offering free public access to all scientiﬁc data as well as to all publicly funded research. The OECD as well as many countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have adopted these new standards, allowing users to share a common platform to exchange knowledge at a global scale. High-tech start-ups and small public-private partnerships have spread across the globe to become the service providers of the new digital science learning network, empowering researchers, citizens, educators, innovators and students worldwide to share knowledge by using the best available technology. Free and open, high quality and crowd-sourced science, focusing on the grand societal challenges of our time, shapes the daily life of a new generation of researchers.

There is also lot of synergies and will add momentum for our vision for Open Geospatial Science [2],[3],[4].

'''Open Geospatial Science''' builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

“Geo for All” was initially started by scientists and research active academics to build strong foundations for Open Geospatial Science . We also wanted to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. We were laughed at initially by some because we did not have any initial funding when we decided to start “Geo for All” . We are grateful to all our colleagues globally for their help and efforts which enabled us to build this initiative http://www.geoforall.org/about/ .

'''So what is our aim for Vision 2030'''

* Science should always be fully open and inclusive

* Transparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

* Geospatial Science should be build fully on Open Principles

* Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science

We welcome the wider community to contribute more ideas/inputs to show us how we can together achieve this vision

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/research/openvision/index.cfm
[2] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/
[3] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[4] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board

Geoforall criteria

2016-04-03T09:13:58Z

Sanand: /* Criteria for maintaining active status as Geo for All Centre */

== Criteria for admission to “Geo for All” Initiative ==

"Geo for All" is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation's Open Educational outreach with our partners worldwide with the mission for making geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all. In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data for enabling open education opportunities for all. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014.

Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone.

The key requirements for joining "Geo for All" initiative are:

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

== How to apply for joining the network ==

With the region wise thematic groups established, the chairs of this are now the contact points for any new labs to be established in that region to contact and the mailing list becomes the first point of contact for the new members and all regional members in the region can use the list for collaborating on regional funding calls, FOSS4G local conferences etc. They will also be the administrators of the mailing lists and they will use the wikipages to develop their ideas with inputs from all members in their groups. This way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets local/region requirements/needs. The nodal contact will make the decision on approval as now, but the whole process will be more efficient.

Chair Reply template at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoforAll_Chair_Reply_Template

For Global/Strategic level enquires please contact Suchith Anand [email - suchith_anand@yahoo.com ]

== Regional Chairs and Contact Information ==

'''North America Region'''

Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-northamerica

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_North_America

Email: cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu; hmitaso@ncsu.edu; pdavis@delmar.edu

'''South America Region'''

Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-southamerica

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_South_America

Email: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; silvanacamboim@gmail.com

'''Africa Region'''

Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa

Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Africa

Email: bridget@afrispatial.co.za; serenacoetzee@gmail.com; ranyaalsayed@gmail.com

'''Asia Region (including Australia)'''

Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-asiaaustralia

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Asia

Email: raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp; Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my

'''Europe Region'''

Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney (Ireland)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-europe

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Europe

Email: maria.brovelli@polimi.it; petermooney78@gmail.com

== Geo for All Thematic groups ==

'''OpenCitySmart Thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_opencitysmart

Email: cpettit@unimelb.edu.au; patrick.hogan@nasa.gov

'''School Education thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland) and Nikos Lambrinos (Greece)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-teachertraining

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation

Email: labrinos@eled.auth.gr; ela@gridw.pl

'''Citizen Science thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Peter Mooney (Ireland) and Maria Brovelli (Italy)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-citizenscience

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geocrowdsourcing_CitizenScience_FOSS4G

Email: peter [DOT] Mooney [AT] nuim [DOT] ie; maria.brovelli@polimi.it

'''AgriGIS thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Didier Leibovici (France) and Nobusuke Iwasaki (Japan)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/agrigis

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/agrigis

Email: didier.leibovici@gmail.com ; raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp

'''Spanish thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-spanish

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish

Email: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; aperezn@uoc.edu

== Criteria for maintaining active status as Geo for All Centre ==

The Centre/lab shall demonstrate activity that supports the Geo4all vision. The activities can be documented on the centre website, at conferences etc.

Examples of possible activities:

- participating at FOSS4G [2] or related Open Source/Open Data/Open Education conferences

- teaching a course, workshop or presenting a webinar on Open Source and /or Data

- contributing to Open Education activities

- publishing scientific papers with a focus on Open Source and /or Data

- participating in OSGeo or Local Chapter committees

- collaborations with other ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs (projects, courses)

- Google Summer of Code mentoring [3]

- translating and publishing material especially in public repositories

- actively contributing to Open Source projects (code, helping on mailing lists)

- Participate and contribute to Open Standards development, for example, through the OGC Memorandum of Understanding with OSGeo or through the ICA’s liaison relationship with ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics http://www.isotc211.org

Suggested frequency of updates on activity: yearly, at end of academic year. Set a deadline that will match comfortably with many other end of year deadlines, or suggest a way to track activities automatically during the year on the Lab's website (blog posts with keywords, a section with yearly activities that is filled incrementally along the year). All labs to make a report to be published with the annual FOSS4G conference proceeds (so reports to be send in the mail list in August).

The report of activities shall be a page on the Lab's website, if no other format is already available from other reporting activities requested by the Institution itself.The most recent report will be linked in the main table on the wiki page Edu_current_initiatives. The history of reports will reside on a wiki page for each lab, or better a global wiki page on OSGeo wiki, in a table, that can be ordered either per Lab name, either per year. When it will become unparsable we will think of a database of some sort or a section in Geoforall website.

Labs who do not provide the yearly report, or have no activities to report, will change their status to "Inactive since <year>". They will be contacted by Advisory Board, or the nodal contact for the given region. In case of no feedback, the Lab will be still kept as inactive and contacted again the following year.

At any time any member lab can leave the Geo for All network by a sending an letter of declaration to the Advisory board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA
[2] http://ww.foss4g.org
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Google_Summer_of_Code

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Geoforall criteria

2016-04-03T09:11:35Z

Sanand: /* Thematics: Subjects/Language */

== Criteria for admission to “Geo for All” Initiative ==

"Geo for All" is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation's Open Educational outreach with our partners worldwide with the mission for making geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all. In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data for enabling open education opportunities for all. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014.

Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone.

The key requirements for joining "Geo for All" initiative are:

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

== How to apply for joining the network ==

With the region wise thematic groups established, the chairs of this are now the contact points for any new labs to be established in that region to contact and the mailing list becomes the first point of contact for the new members and all regional members in the region can use the list for collaborating on regional funding calls, FOSS4G local conferences etc. They will also be the administrators of the mailing lists and they will use the wikipages to develop their ideas with inputs from all members in their groups. This way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets local/region requirements/needs. The nodal contact will make the decision on approval as now, but the whole process will be more efficient.

Chair Reply template at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoforAll_Chair_Reply_Template

For Global/Strategic level enquires please contact Suchith Anand [email - suchith_anand@yahoo.com ]

== Regional Chairs and Contact Information ==

'''North America Region'''

Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-northamerica

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_North_America

Email: cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu; hmitaso@ncsu.edu; pdavis@delmar.edu

'''South America Region'''

Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-southamerica

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_South_America

Email: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; silvanacamboim@gmail.com

'''Africa Region'''

Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa

Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Africa

Email: bridget@afrispatial.co.za; serenacoetzee@gmail.com; ranyaalsayed@gmail.com

'''Asia Region (including Australia)'''

Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-asiaaustralia

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Asia

Email: raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp; Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my

'''Europe Region'''

Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney (Ireland)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-europe

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Europe

Email: maria.brovelli@polimi.it; petermooney78@gmail.com

== Geo for All Thematic groups ==

'''OpenCitySmart Thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_opencitysmart

Email: cpettit@unimelb.edu.au; patrick.hogan@nasa.gov

'''School Education thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland) and Nikos Lambrinos (Greece)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-teachertraining

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation

Email: labrinos@eled.auth.gr; ela@gridw.pl

'''Citizen Science thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Peter Mooney (Ireland) and Maria Brovelli (Italy)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-citizenscience

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geocrowdsourcing_CitizenScience_FOSS4G

Email: peter [DOT] Mooney [AT] nuim [DOT] ie; maria.brovelli@polimi.it

'''AgriGIS thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Didier Leibovici (France) and Nobusuke Iwasaki (Japan)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/agrigis

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/agrigis

Email: didier.leibovici@gmail.com ; raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp

'''Spanish thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-spanish

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish

Email: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; aperezn@uoc.edu

== Criteria for maintaining active status as ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab ==

The Lab shall demonstrate activity that supports the Geo4all vision. The activities can be documented on the lab website, at conferences etc.

Examples of possible activities:

- participating at FOSS4G [2] or related Open Source/Open Data/Open Education conferences

- teaching a course, workshop or presenting a webinar on Open Source and /or Data

- contributing to Open Education activities

- publishing scientific papers with a focus on Open Source and /or Data

- participating in OSGeo or Local Chapter committees

- collaborations with other ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs (projects, courses)

- Google Summer of Code mentoring [3]

- translating and publishing material especially in public repositories

- actively contributing to Open Source projects (code, helping on mailing lists)

- Participate and contribute to Open Standards development, for example, through the OGC Memorandum of Understanding with OSGeo or through the ICA’s liaison relationship with ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics http://www.isotc211.org

Suggested frequency of updates on activity: yearly, at end of academic year. Set a deadline that will match comfortably with many other end of year deadlines, or suggest a way to track activities automatically during the year on the Lab's website (blog posts with keywords, a section with yearly activities that is filled incrementally along the year). All labs to make a report to be published with the annual FOSS4G conference proceeds (so reports to be send in the mail list in August).

The report of activities shall be a page on the Lab's website, if no other format is already available from other reporting activities requested by the Institution itself.The most recent report will be linked in the main table on the wiki page Edu_current_initiatives. The history of reports will reside on a wiki page for each lab, or better a global wiki page on OSGeo wiki, in a table, that can be ordered either per Lab name, either per year. When it will become unparsable we will think of a database of some sort or a section in Geoforall website.

Labs who do not provide the yearly report, or have no activities to report, will change their status to "Inactive since <year>". They will be contacted by Advisory Board, or the nodal contact for the given region. In case of no feedback, the Lab will be still kept as inactive and contacted again the following year.

At any time any member lab can leave the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab network by a sending an letter of declaration to the Advisory board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA
[2] http://ww.foss4g.org
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Google_Summer_of_Code

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Geoforall criteria

2016-04-03T09:05:35Z

Sanand: /* Criteria for admission to “Geo for All” Initiative */

== Criteria for admission to “Geo for All” Initiative ==

"Geo for All" is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation's Open Educational outreach with our partners worldwide with the mission for making geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all. In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data for enabling open education opportunities for all. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014.

Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone.

The key requirements for joining "Geo for All" initiative are:

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

== How to apply for joining the network ==

With the region wise thematic groups established, the chairs of this are now the contact points for any new labs to be established in that region to contact and the mailing list becomes the first point of contact for the new members and all regional members in the region can use the list for collaborating on regional funding calls, FOSS4G local conferences etc. They will also be the administrators of the mailing lists and they will use the wikipages to develop their ideas with inputs from all members in their groups. This way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets local/region requirements/needs. The nodal contact will make the decision on approval as now, but the whole process will be more efficient.

Chair Reply template at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoforAll_Chair_Reply_Template

For Global/Strategic level enquires please contact Suchith Anand [email - suchith_anand@yahoo.com ]

== Regional Chairs and Contact Information ==

'''North America Region'''

Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-northamerica

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_North_America

Email: cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu; hmitaso@ncsu.edu; pdavis@delmar.edu

'''South America Region'''

Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-southamerica

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_South_America

Email: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; silvanacamboim@gmail.com

'''Africa Region'''

Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa

Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Africa

Email: bridget@afrispatial.co.za; serenacoetzee@gmail.com; ranyaalsayed@gmail.com

'''Asia Region (including Australia)'''

Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-asiaaustralia

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Asia

Email: raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp; Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my

'''Europe Region'''

Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney (Ireland)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-europe

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Europe

Email: maria.brovelli@polimi.it; petermooney78@gmail.com

== Thematics: Subjects/Language ==

'''Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics

Email: cpettit@unimelb.edu.au; patrick.hogan@nasa.gov

'''Teacher Training & School Education thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland) and Adrian Manning (UK)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-teachertraining

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation

Email: j.d.w.m@btinternet.com; ela@gridw.pl

'''Citizen Science thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Peter Mooney (Ireland) and Maria Brovelli (Italy)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-citizenscience

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geocrowdsourcing_CitizenScience_FOSS4G

Email: peter [DOT] Mooney [AT] nuim [DOT] ie; maria.brovelli@polimi.it

'''AgriGIS thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Didier Leibovici (France) and Venkatesh Raghvan (Japan/India)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/agrigis

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/agrigis

Email: didier.leibovici@gmail.com ; raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp

'''Spanish thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-spanish

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish

Email: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; aperezn@uoc.edu

== Criteria for maintaining active status as ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab ==

The Lab shall demonstrate activity that supports the Geo4all vision. The activities can be documented on the lab website, at conferences etc.

Examples of possible activities:

- participating at FOSS4G [2] or related Open Source/Open Data/Open Education conferences

- teaching a course, workshop or presenting a webinar on Open Source and /or Data

- contributing to Open Education activities

- publishing scientific papers with a focus on Open Source and /or Data

- participating in OSGeo or Local Chapter committees

- collaborations with other ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs (projects, courses)

- Google Summer of Code mentoring [3]

- translating and publishing material especially in public repositories

- actively contributing to Open Source projects (code, helping on mailing lists)

- Participate and contribute to Open Standards development, for example, through the OGC Memorandum of Understanding with OSGeo or through the ICA’s liaison relationship with ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics http://www.isotc211.org

Suggested frequency of updates on activity: yearly, at end of academic year. Set a deadline that will match comfortably with many other end of year deadlines, or suggest a way to track activities automatically during the year on the Lab's website (blog posts with keywords, a section with yearly activities that is filled incrementally along the year). All labs to make a report to be published with the annual FOSS4G conference proceeds (so reports to be send in the mail list in August).

The report of activities shall be a page on the Lab's website, if no other format is already available from other reporting activities requested by the Institution itself.The most recent report will be linked in the main table on the wiki page Edu_current_initiatives. The history of reports will reside on a wiki page for each lab, or better a global wiki page on OSGeo wiki, in a table, that can be ordered either per Lab name, either per year. When it will become unparsable we will think of a database of some sort or a section in Geoforall website.

Labs who do not provide the yearly report, or have no activities to report, will change their status to "Inactive since <year>". They will be contacted by Advisory Board, or the nodal contact for the given region. In case of no feedback, the Lab will be still kept as inactive and contacted again the following year.

At any time any member lab can leave the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab network by a sending an letter of declaration to the Advisory board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA
[2] http://ww.foss4g.org
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Google_Summer_of_Code

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T12:40:53Z

Sanand: /* Current Status */

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= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

International Cartographic Association (ICA) is the world authoritative body for cartography and GIScience

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

Geo4All had been working hard to expand OSGeo education activities globally . Members have been running courses, training events, workshops, webinars, summer schools etc using OSGeo software, MOOC programs (that benefitted thousands of students globally) etc have raised OSGeo education efforts globally. Geo4All members have been actively contributing to OSGeo Curriculum development effort and will continue to expand this by having more course materials in various OSGeo software aded to the OSGeo education repository for everyone to make use of for thier teaching and education.

“
== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

1. Geo4All initiative was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims by collaborating with like minded organisations and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA and ISPRS for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

2. We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

Recently through mailing list discussions, we had discussion on the future directions for Geo4All .There were different opinions and hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schwick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition to GeoForAll as OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort, to make sure the efforts put in by lot of volunteers for this is build upon for the future.

3. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T11:43:41Z

Sanand: /* Requirements of Geo4All */

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DRAFT
|-
| This page is a DRAFT document subject to discussion and OSGeo board approval
|}

= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

International Cartographic Association (ICA) is the world authoritative body for cartography and GIScience

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

Geo4All had been working hard to expand OSGeo education activities globally (members have been running courses using OSGeo software, MOOC programs (that benefitted thousands of students globally) etc have raised OSGeo education efforts globally. Geo4All members have been actively contributing to OSGeo Curriculum development effort and will continue to expand this by having more course materials in various OSGeo software aded to the OSGeo education repository for everyone to make use of for thier teaching and education.

“
== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

1. Geo4All initiative was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims by collaborating with like minded organisations and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA and ISPRS for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

2. We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

Recently through mailing list discussions, we had discussion on the future directions for Geo4All .There were different opinions and hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schwick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition to GeoForAll as OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort, to make sure the efforts put in by lot of volunteers for this is build upon for the future.

3. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T10:41:41Z

Sanand: /* Requirements of Geo4All */

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DRAFT
|-
| This page is a DRAFT document subject to discussion and OSGeo board approval
|}

= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

International Cartographic Association (ICA) is the world authoritative body for cartography and GIScience

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

Geo4All had been working hard to expand OSGeo education activities globally (members have been running courses using OSGeo software, MOOC programs (that benefitted thousands of students globally) etc have raised OSGeo education efforts globally. Geo4All members have been actively contributing to OSGeo Curriculum development effort and will continue to expand this by having more course materials in various OSGeo software aded to the OSGeo education repository for everyone to make use of for thier teaching and education.

“
== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

1. Geo4All initiative was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims by collaborating with like minded organisations and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA and ISPRS for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

2. We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

Recently through mailing list discussions, we had discussion on the future directions for Geo4All .There were different opinions and hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists [3] etc and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schewick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition to GeoForAll as OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort, to make sure the efforts put in by lot of OSGeo volunteers for this is build upon for the future.

3. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T10:37:23Z

Sanand: /* Requirements of Geo4All */

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DRAFT
|-
| This page is a DRAFT document subject to discussion and OSGeo board approval
|}

= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

International Cartographic Association (ICA) is the world authoritative body for cartography and GIScience

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

Geo4All had been working hard to expand OSGeo education activities globally (members have been running courses using OSGeo software, MOOC programs (that benefitted thousands of students globally) etc have raised OSGeo education efforts globally. Geo4All members have been actively contributing to OSGeo Curriculum development effort and will continue to expand this by having more course materials in various OSGeo software aded to the OSGeo education repository for everyone to make use of for thier teaching and education.

“
== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

1. Geo4All initiative was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA and ISPRS for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

2. We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

Recently through mailing list discussions, we had discussion on the future directions for Geo4All .There were different opinions and hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists [3] etc and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schewick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition to GeoForAll as OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T10:31:19Z

Sanand: /* Requirements of Geo4All */

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DRAFT
|-
| This page is a DRAFT document subject to discussion and OSGeo board approval
|}

= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

International Cartographic Association (ICA) is the world authoritative body for cartography and GIScience

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

Geo4All had been working hard to expand OSGeo education activities globally (members have been running courses using OSGeo software, MOOC programs (that benefitted thousands of students globally) etc have raised OSGeo education efforts globally. Geo4All members have been actively contributing to OSGeo Curriculum development effort and will continue to expand this by having more course materials in various OSGeo software aded to the OSGeo education repository for everyone to make use of for thier teaching and education.

“
== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

1. Geo4All initiative was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA and ISPRS for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

2. We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

Recently through mailing list discussions, we had discussion on the future directions for Geo4All .Some Geo4All members have expressed their opinion that Geo4All is not about any one foundation or solution. Hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists [3] etc and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schewick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition to GeoForAll as OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T10:29:18Z

Sanand: /* Requirements of Geo4All */

{| class="wikitable"
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! DRAFT
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| This page is a DRAFT document subject to discussion and OSGeo board approval
|}

= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

International Cartographic Association (ICA) is the world authoritative body for cartography and GIScience

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

Geo4All had been working hard to expand OSGeo education activities globally (members have been running courses using OSGeo software, MOOC programs (that benefitted thousands of students globally) etc have raised OSGeo education efforts globally. Geo4All members have been actively contributing to OSGeo Curriculum development effort and will continue to expand this by having more course materials in various OSGeo software aded to the OSGeo education repository for everyone to make use of for thier teaching and education.

“
== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

1. Geo4All initiative was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA and ISPRS for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

2. We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

Recently through mailing list discussions, we had discussion on the future directions for Geo4All .Some Geo4All members have stated that Geo4All is not about any one foundation or solution. Hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists [3] etc and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schewick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition to GeoForAll as OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T10:26:23Z

Sanand: /* About International Cartographic Association */

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DRAFT
|-
| This page is a DRAFT document subject to discussion and OSGeo board approval
|}

= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

International Cartographic Association (ICA) is the world authoritative body for cartography and GIScience

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

Geo4All had been working hard to expand OSGeo education activities globally (members have been running courses using OSGeo software, MOOC programs (that benefitted thousands of students globally) etc have raised OSGeo education efforts globally. Geo4All members have been actively contributing to OSGeo Curriculum development effort and will continue to expand this by having more course materials in various OSGeo software aded to the OSGeo education repository for everyone to make use of for thier teaching and education.

“
== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

1. Geo4All initiative was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA and ISPRS for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

2. We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

Recently through mailing list discussions, we had discussion on the future directions for Geo4All .Some Geo4All members have stated that Geo4All is not about any one foundation or solution. Hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists [3] etc and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schewick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition.

Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T10:24:53Z

Sanand: /* International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing */

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DRAFT
|-
| This page is a DRAFT document subject to discussion and OSGeo board approval
|}

= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

Information about ICA pending.

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

Geo4All had been working hard to expand OSGeo education activities globally (members have been running courses using OSGeo software, MOOC programs (that benefitted thousands of students globally) etc have raised OSGeo education efforts globally. Geo4All members have been actively contributing to OSGeo Curriculum development effort and will continue to expand this by having more course materials in various OSGeo software aded to the OSGeo education repository for everyone to make use of for thier teaching and education.

“
== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

1. Geo4All initiative was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA and ISPRS for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

2. We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

Recently through mailing list discussions, we had discussion on the future directions for Geo4All .Some Geo4All members have stated that Geo4All is not about any one foundation or solution. Hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists [3] etc and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schewick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition.

Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T10:21:41Z

Sanand: /* Current Status */

{| class="wikitable"
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= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

Information about ICA pending.

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

Information about ISPRS pending.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

Geo4All had been working hard to expand OSGeo education activities globally (members have been running courses using OSGeo software, MOOC programs (that benefitted thousands of students globally) etc have raised OSGeo education efforts globally. Geo4All members have been actively contributing to OSGeo Curriculum development effort and will continue to expand this by having more course materials in various OSGeo software aded to the OSGeo education repository for everyone to make use of for thier teaching and education.

“
== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

1. Geo4All initiative was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA and ISPRS for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

2. We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

Recently through mailing list discussions, we had discussion on the future directions for Geo4All .Some Geo4All members have stated that Geo4All is not about any one foundation or solution. Hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists [3] etc and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schewick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition.

Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T10:05:36Z

Sanand: /* Requirements of Geo4All */

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DRAFT
|-
| This page is a DRAFT document subject to discussion and OSGeo board approval
|}

= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

Information about ICA pending.

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

Information about ISPRS pending.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

“OSGeo” is currently not very visible in Geo4All, an example being OSGeo’s newly formed Open GeoScience Committee who actively plans various OSGeo events, such as OSGeo townhalls etc. With so many foundations involved in Geo4All, students often come away from a Geo4All session not knowing what “OSGeo” is.

== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

1. Geo4All initiative was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA and ISPRS for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

2. We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

Recently through mailing list discussions, some Geo4All members have stated that Geo4All is not about any one foundation or solution. Hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists [3] etc and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schewick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition.

Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship

2015-11-17T10:00:39Z

Sanand: /* Requirements of Geo4All */

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DRAFT
|-
| This page is a DRAFT document subject to discussion and OSGeo board approval
|}

= Purpose of Document =

The OSGeo Board of Directors would like to clarify the relationship between the Geo4All initiative, and the OSGeo foundation, in terms of promoting education. The intended audience of this document is the Geo4All community. This document outlines a few possible scenarios, of how the Geo4All group can work with the OSGeo foundation.

== About Geo4All ==

The Geo4All initiative that started off after the signing of an MoU (see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA) between OSGeo and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) has been growing at a rapid pace since 2011. Geo4All expanded in 2014 with the addition of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

One of the initiatives championed by Geo4All, is the setting up of “ICA-ISPRS-OSGeo Labs” worldwide which presently includes 102 labs<ref name=lab_list>105 in the minus 3 marked "to be replaced" (see http://www.geoforall.org/locations/) which were never really contacted. We have identified around 20 which were not responsive or did not have valid contact so the realistic number of the labs is 70-80.</ref>. In a recent survey conducted by Maria Brovelli and Peter Mooney, 35 labs have responded to questionnaire concerning their activities.

The Geo4All initiative has an Advisory Board co-chaired by Presidents of OSGeo and ICA and comprised majority of members who are also Charter Members of OSGeo. Geo4All operates its own website, has its own logo and publishes its own Newsletter. As a main mode of communication, Geo4All utilizes the OSGeo listserver and wiki.

=== About International Cartographic Association ===

Information about ICA pending.

=== International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ===

Information about ISPRS pending.

=== About Open Source Geospatial Foundation ===

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use (see [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html about]).

OSGeo has an “Education and Curriculum Committee” chaired by VP, (Vice President) Education and Curriculum Project (presently Charlie Schweik; see http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) and main channel of communications is the edu_discuss mailing list and OSGeo Wiki. The mailing list is not active with few stray mails coming at an irregular pace and the “Education and Curriculum Committee” Wiki does not reflect the existence of such a committee within the OSGeo Foundation.

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= Current Status =

The discussions on the Geo4All ML, at the video conference among Geo4All enthusiasts and at the Geo4All BoF held in Como led to the agreement among the OSGeo education committee chair and several OSGeo members also actively involved in Geo4All initiative that, “GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort” (http://www.osgeo.org/ education) is the new avatar of the former “Education and Curriculum Committee”.

“OSGeo” is currently not very visible in Geo4All, an example being OSGeo’s newly formed Open GeoScience Committee who actively plans various OSGeo events, such as OSGeo townhalls etc. With so many foundations involved in Geo4All, students often come away from a Geo4All session not knowing what “OSGeo” is.

== Requirements of OSGeo ==

OSGeo needs a committee/initiative/group that is focused on promoting "collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use" through education. Students and researchers need to know how to benefit from the great open source projects and how to participate in these projects and the open source community.

Examples:

* Course material on [https://www.r-project.org R] makes note of the [http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html R FAQ] and [https://www.r-project.org/mail.html mailing list] and a blurb on open source participation and the [https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ R Foundation].
* Course material on [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] make not of the QGIS [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html users page], how to [http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/index.html get involved] in the [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/31 QGIS.org association].
* Course materials on [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] link to the [http://geoserver.org/comm communication page] along with information on the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html OSGeo Foundation].

OSGeo is not asking for special placement, instead we are asking that the participation message of Open Source be showcased. This message is of vital importance, as any advocacy of use that is not balanced by participation does our students (and our projects) a disservice.

== Requirements of Geo4All ==

Geo4All initiative (initially called ICA-OSGeo labs) was started with the key aim to build up OSGeo's education aims and it is one of the most successful initiatives that we have undertaken. OSGeo Board has made separate MoUs with both ICA[1] and ISPRS[2] for expanding Geo4All and universities,SMEs, government organisations etc worldwide have trusted the MoUs that OSGeo provided and setup labs and joined the network , so it is important we provide strong continuity and focus. MoUs have to be respected and the momentum created need to build upon with clear direction and focus.

Recently through mailing list discussions, several Geo4All members have stated that Geo4All is not about any one foundation or solution. Hence we arranged a meeting at Como to discuss this and find a way forward. Geo4All will continue to be inclusive and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. Following lot of discussions among our members in our mail lists [3] etc and the meeting at Como[1] that was led by Charlie Schewick ,the consensus was that OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee and GeoForAll are the same and it is now GeoForAll: OSGeo's Education and Curriculum Effort as reflected in OSGeo website at http://www.osgeo.org/education . So steps need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition

Venka has also presented this outcomes at FOSS4G Seoul [2].

We will welcome and include all partners that OSGeo Board have MOUs with for expanding this OSGeo' Geo4All education initiative and warmly welcome everyone who are following the principles. That way the OSGeo Board will be able to keep expanding the initiative and to make MoUs with other organisations etc as we are doing now (ICA, ISPRS) and also in future .

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_EU_Como_2015_Preconference_meeting
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/g4-a-newver2

= What Must Happen =

As a foundation, OSGeo needs to provide a clear picture about relation/role of the Geo4All initiative, and the Geo4All Advisory Board need to confirm its stance vis-à-vis the OSGeo Foundation.

== How to Get There ==

Three possible scenarios could be considered as regards the synergy between OSGeo Foundation and Geo4All initiative.

=== Scenario 1: ===

OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation. In this case, the Geo4All Advisory Board would include representatives from our partners like ICA, ISPRS etc. Geo4All Advisory Board comprises of representatives from ICA, ISPRS, OSGeo and other organization that join in future. As a partner in the Geo4All initiative, a Project Steering Committee (PSC) comprising of VP OSGeo Foundation (Education and Curriculum Project) and other representatives (e.g Regional Chairs of Geo4All) need to be constituted within the OSGeo Foundation. The PSC could liaise with Geo4All Advisory Board to evolve way and means to achieve mutual goals and objectives.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1.png|frameless|center|Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1]]
Figure 1: Organization Structure of Scenario 1

It the case of Scenario 1, several things need to be considered for example

Should the “ICA-OSGeo Labs” simply be named as “Geo4All-Labs” We think that the organizations partnering with OSGeo Foundation’s educational outreach will grow in the future. Would it be feasible to add organizational abbreviations to the Labs e.g. “ICA-ISPRS-XXX-YYY-ZZZ-OSGeo Labs”?. The OSGeo Advisory board has agreed that this was not feasible and proposed a Geo4All “Partners” category to list organizations affiliated to Geo4All.

=== Scenario 1B: ===

Similar to Scenario 1, OSGeo Board of Directors and the Geo4All Advisory Board mutually agree that Geo4All is the “official” educational outreach of OSGeo Foundation, but no new structure (PSC, committee or whatever) would be created in OSGeo; instead, Geo4All as an external body with respect to OSGeo will now focus on strongly promoting the open source projects through education, by holding “OSGeo” events, presentations, papers, training sessions, awards, etc. This focus on open source projects should be in writing, documented on the Geo4All website and also on the OSGeo website. Note that in this scenario Geo4All would be required to name an officer who would liaise with the OSGeo Board (as every other OSGeo committee does).

[[File:Geo4AllScenario1b.png||frameless|center|Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b]]
Figure 1b: Organization Structure of Scenario 1b

=== Scenario 2: ===

Geo4All, an independent entity working closely with the OSGeo Foundation. Geo4All could be something for “open Geospatial education” what OSM is for “open geospatial data”. Such a decision is for Geo4All advisory board to take and also propose some kind of MoU with the OSGeo Foundation to spread “open Geospatial education” using the resources of the OSGeo Foundation.

[[File:Geo4AllScenario2.png|frameless|center|Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2]]
Figure 2: Organization Structure of Scenario 2

In case of Scenario 2, some of the things that need to be considered are:

a) Since Education is an important outreach initiative for the OSGeo Foundation, a proper “Education and Curriculum Committee” needs to be re-established whose main role would be to liaise and work jointly with Geo4All to fulfill the OSGeo mission in the sphere of Education and academic Research

=== Scenario 3: ===

We do not think that a third scenario exists.

== Resolution ==

Based on the clarification of the Scenario 1, 1B, and 2 listed above, the OSGeo board needs to approve the decision and take appropriate steps (update web site etc.) to reflect the correct picture both inside and outside of the OSGeo Foundation. The Geo4All also would need to update its website, newsletter etc. to reflect being a part of OSGeo Foundation or teaming with OSGeo Foundation along with other organizations. Both OSGeo Board of directors and Geo4All Advisory Board should officially approve the new relation/role of OSGeo and Geo4All.

== Notes ==

Agrigis

2015-09-22T10:50:20Z

Sanand:

Welcome to the GeoForAll AgriGIS

Chaired by: Didier Leibovici (France) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)

How do I become involved? Anyone interested in being part of this theme, subscribe here http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/agrigis . Your participation is appreciated and needed! All ideas are welcome. All material posted will be helpful. If you would like to edit this Wiki page you shall need to create an account on OSGeo to give you access to Wiki editing.

We can be most successful with this theme if we are all happy to support the 'AgriGIS and FOSS4G Guiding Principles:'

* All material created is made available for everyone's use under an Open License
* All material is carefully designed so that it can be extended by others
* All participants aim to reuse, optimize, extend and add new components and information (in that order)
* All members and participants of the theme will endeavor to keep the links and material on this Wiki page checked regularly so that broken links or changes can be detected quickly and rectified.

Agrigis

2015-09-22T10:49:45Z

Sanand:

Welcome to the GeoForAll AgriGIS

Chaired by: Didier Leibovici (France) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)

How do I become involved? Anyone interested in being part of this theme, subscribe here http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/agrigis . Your participation is appreciated and needed! All ideas are welcome. All material posted will be helpful. If you would like to edit this Wiki page you shall need to create an account on OSGeo to give you access to Wiki editing.

We can be most successful with this theme if we are all happy to support the 'AgriGIS and FOSS4G Guiding Principles:'

All material created is made available for everyone's use under an Open License
All material is carefully designed so that it can be extended by others
All participants aim to reuse, optimize, extend and add new components and information (in that order)
All members and participants of the theme will endeavor to keep the links and material on this Wiki page checked regularly so that broken links or changes can be detected quickly and rectified.

Agrigis

2015-09-22T10:49:18Z

Sanand: Created page with "Welcome to the GeoForAll AgriGIS In summary the GeoForAll GeoCrowd theme is: Chaired by: Didier Leibovici (France) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India) How do I become involve..."

Welcome to the GeoForAll AgriGIS

In summary the GeoForAll GeoCrowd theme is:
Chaired by: Didier Leibovici (France) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)

How do I become involved? Anyone interested in being part of this theme, subscribe here http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/agrigis . Your participation is appreciated and needed! All ideas are welcome. All material posted will be helpful. If you would like to edit this Wiki page you shall need to create an account on OSGeo to give you access to Wiki editing.

We can be most successful with this theme if we are all happy to support the 'AgriGIS and FOSS4G Guiding Principles:'

All material created is made available for everyone's use under an Open License
All material is carefully designed so that it can be extended by others
All participants aim to reuse, optimize, extend and add new components and information (in that order)
All members and participants of the theme will endeavor to keep the links and material on this Wiki page checked regularly so that broken links or changes can be detected quickly and rectified.

Geoforall criteria

2015-09-22T10:45:36Z

Sanand: /* Thematics: Subjects/Language */

== Criteria for admission to “ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS” Labs ==

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data for enabling open education opportunities for all. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014.

The motto of ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab initiative is "Geo For All". Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone.

The key requirements for joining "Geo for All" initiative are:

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the ICA-OSGeo MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(B) At least one person at your institution or organization should have strong knowledge in geospatial information science and vision to lead this activity and to build a team of people, locally. This person should act as a liaison officer to the initiative.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow other nodes in the network and the general public to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches. The website should be established within a year of the lab announcement and has to be maintained at least annually.

(D) GEO4ALL MAKES A COMMITMENT TO promote the initiative widely through OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources and/or active participation in the open source software and data development. We will also add the information of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

== How to apply for joining the network ==

With the region wise thematic groups established, the chairs of this are now the contact points for any new labs to be established in that region to contact and the mailing list becomes the first point of contact for the new members and all regional members in the region can use the list for collaborating on regional funding calls, FOSS4G local conferences etc. They will also be the administrators of the mailing lists and they will use the wikipages to develop their ideas with inputs from all members in their groups. This way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets local/region requirements/needs. The nodal contact will make the decision on approval as now, but the whole process will be more efficient.

Chair Reply template at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoforAll_Chair_Reply_Template

For Global/Strategic level enquires please contact Suchith Anand [email - suchith_anand@yahoo.com ]

== Regional Chairs and Contact Information ==

'''North America Region'''

Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)

Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-northamerica

Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_North_America

Email: cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu; hmitaso@ncsu.edu; pdavis@delmar.edu

'''South America Region'''

Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)

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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_South_America

Email: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; silvanacamboim@gmail.com

'''Africa Region'''

Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa)

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Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Africa

Email: bridget@afrispatial.co.za; serenacoetzee@gmail.com; ranyaalsayed@gmail.com

'''Asia Region (including Australia)'''

Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)

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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Asia

Email: raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp; Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my

'''Europe Region'''

Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney (Ireland)

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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Europe

Email: maria.brovelli@polimi.it; petermooney78@gmail.com

== Thematics: Subjects/Language ==

'''Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics

Email: cpettit@unimelb.edu.au; patrick.hogan@nasa.gov

'''Teacher Training & School Education thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Poland) and Adrian Manning (UK)

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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation

Email: j.d.w.m@btinternet.com; ela@gridw.pl

'''Citizen Science thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Peter Mooney (Ireland) and Maria Brovelli (Italy)

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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geocrowdsourcing_CitizenScience_FOSS4G

Email: peter [DOT] Mooney [AT] nuim [DOT] ie; maria.brovelli@polimi.it

'''AgriGIS thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Didier Leibovici (France) and Venkatesh Raghvan (Japan/India)

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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/agrigis

Email: didier.leibovici@gmail.com ; raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp

'''Spanish thematic'''

Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain)

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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish

Email: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; aperezn@uoc.edu

== Criteria for maintaining active status as ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab ==

The Lab shall demonstrate activity that supports the Geo4all vision. The activities can be documented on the lab website, at conferences etc.

Examples of possible activities:

- participating at FOSS4G [2] or related Open Source/Open Data/Open Education conferences

- teaching a course, workshop or presenting a webinar on Open Source and /or Data

- contributing to Open Education activities

- publishing scientific papers with a focus on Open Source and /or Data

- participating in OSGeo or Local Chapter committees

- collaborations with other ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs (projects, courses)

- Google Summer of Code mentoring [3]

- translating and publishing material especially in public repositories

- actively contributing to Open Source projects (code, helping on mailing lists)

- Participate and contribute to Open Standards development, for example, through the OGC Memorandum of Understanding with OSGeo or through the ICA’s liaison relationship with ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics http://www.isotc211.org

Suggested frequency of updates on activity: yearly, at end of academic year. Set a deadline that will match comfortably with many other end of year deadlines, or suggest a way to track activities automatically during the year on the Lab's website (blog posts with keywords, a section with yearly activities that is filled incrementally along the year). All labs to make a report to be published with the annual FOSS4G conference proceeds (so reports to be send in the mail list in August).

The report of activities shall be a page on the Lab's website, if no other format is already available from other reporting activities requested by the Institution itself.The most recent report will be linked in the main table on the wiki page Edu_current_initiatives. The history of reports will reside on a wiki page for each lab, or better a global wiki page on OSGeo wiki, in a table, that can be ordered either per Lab name, either per year. When it will become unparsable we will think of a database of some sort or a section in Geoforall website.

Labs who do not provide the yearly report, or have no activities to report, will change their status to "Inactive since <year>". They will be contacted by Advisory Board, or the nodal contact for the given region. In case of no feedback, the Lab will be still kept as inactive and contacted again the following year.

At any time any member lab can leave the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab network by a sending an letter of declaration to the Advisory board.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA
[2] http://ww.foss4g.org
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Google_Summer_of_Code

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