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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">​Thank you Victoria, Rafael and Charlie.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">The presentation from Sergio Y Lara (Uruguay) on gvSIG Batovi is an excellent example of a successful initiative in Open Principles in Education and helps us to understand why scalability and costs for scaling
is fundamental . Through their focus on Open Principles in Education they have now provided high quality spatial education to students in all schools across Uruguay . Thanks to the Plan Ceibal they also have free laptops for all Primary and Secondary students
in the country so they truly have the opportunity to reach every student no matter they are rich or poor with high quality teaching and learning tools.</span></p>
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<span style="text-decoration:underline; color:#e4af0a"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo" id="LPlnk969144" class="OWAAutoLink"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo</span></a></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> (Video with English translation)</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">The presentation from Victor Sunday</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">(Unique Mappers Team) shares the</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">work on</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">youth and women empowerment that they are doing in Africa . Their contributions to quality education, climate action is inspiring. GeoForAll is working closely with YouthMappers and other partners worldwide
to help provide geoeducation opportunities for all students.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">The presentation from Cameron Green (University of Pretoria, South Africa) highlighted the importance of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) and the fundamental link of SDI to all 17 UN SDGs. Many developing countries
lack Spatial Data infrastructures which is key for evaluating and monitoring SDG progress.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">He showed GeoNode </span><a href="http://geonode.org" id="LPlnk403437" class="OWAAutoLink"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">http://geonode.org</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">an open source Content Management System for GIS. There are many examples of Geonode implementations for example the World Food Program
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"><a href="https://geonode.wfp.org" id="LPlnk846548" class="OWAAutoLink">https://geonode.wfp.org</a> that might be of wider interest.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">I want to thank all speakers for sharing their experiences and ideas.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">As our next step, we to want learn from successful initiatives like gvSIG Batovi, GIS at School etc to scale our teacher training programs for schools</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">to provide geoeducation and STEM education opportunities to millions of students globally and welcome ideas. Spatial Education is key for tackling Climate Change. One of our GeoForAll labs established at
</span><a href="https://www.gridw.pl/en/opensourcegeolab" id="LPlnk942643" class="OWAAutoLink"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">the UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre in Poland</span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
has been doing pioneering work on Environmental Management , Active Education over many years. Details at
</span><a href="https://www.gridw.pl/en/opensourcegeolab" id="LPlnk610435" class="OWAAutoLink"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">https://www.gridw.pl/en/opensourcegeolab</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">One of the inspiring work that they are involved is the
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">GIS at School</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">
</span><a href="http://www.edugis.pl/en/images/stories/guide/gis-at-school.pdf" id="LPlnk396166" class="OWAAutoLink"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">http://www.edugis.pl/en/images/stories/guide/gis-at-school.pdf</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">btw it is nearly 25 years (in 1994) since I first came across the amazing “geo world” by pure chance. I was able to learn GIS thanks to the help from many kind people who I will always be grateful for their kindness
to me. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">So it is now my duty to help open the doors of geoeducation and geodigital economy opportunities to everyone. Details at </span><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/please-share-open-principles-science-and-education-ideas-and-philosophy" id="LPlnk771918" class="OWAAutoLink"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/please-share-open-principles-science-and-education-ideas-and-philosophy</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">I am grateful to everyone working to make geoeducation and digital economy opportunities available for everyone.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Suchith</span></p>
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