From sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy Thu Oct 3 15:36:02 2019 From: sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy (SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 13:36:02 +0000 Subject: [Gvsig_english] GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals In-Reply-To: References: , , , , Message-ID: <1570109761982.16986@mtop.gub.uy> Dear colleagues, GeoForAll community are pleased to announce webinar mini-conference on GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals during World Commons Week 2019. An important element of World Commons Week 2019 are establishing coordinated local events all over the world on commons related issues and practice. As part of the World Commons Week 2019, there are a multitude of local events organized in different parts of the world all dedicated to raising awareness about the scholarship and practice of the Commons in many thematic areas, including water, forests, fisheries and marine settings; the global atmosphere; infrastructure, urban and rural areas; technology and software; and knowledge sharing and co-production. Open source software and open educational resources are forms of Internet-based "commons" and that's what the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) organization is trying to promote. A link between GeoForAll and the IASC community is a natural one. The Second Annual Global World Commons Week will take place 6-12 October 2019. Details at https://wcw2019.iasc-commons.org Last year's website is at http://worldcommonsweek.org . We thank Prof. Charles Schweik (UMass Amherst) who is lead organiser of the WCW2019 for inviting GeoForAll community to share ideas. Dr. Victoria Rautenbach (GeoForAll chair) will welcome all participants to the mini-conference. The GeoForAll webinar mini-conference details are below. All are welcome. GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals October 10th 2019 (Thursday) at 1:00-3:00 PM GMT Access to quality education and digital economy opportunities is key for getting rid of extreme poverty and enable broadly shared prosperity for all. "GeoForAll" is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation's Education initiative and works in close collaboration with ICA, ISPRS, UN-GIS, AGILE, UCGIS , IGU and other partners worldwide in our mission for making geospatial education and digital economy opportunities accessible to all [1]. By combining the potential of free and open geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications will enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for helping solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to zero hunger. Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity is a key fundamental principle of GeoForAll and we want to contribute and focus our efforts for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial has now made it possible for a large number of government organisations, private companies and academics in both developed and developing countries to make use of geospatial software in many application domains. This will ensure that geo education and geo digital economy opportunities are also available to economically poor countries and economically poor people worldwide. Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will enable broadly shared prosperity for all. Program schedule and how to join at https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/geoforall-contributions-to-the-united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/ We thank Dr. Rafael Moreno and colleagues at the Open Source Geospatial Lab at University of Colorado, USA for hosting the GeoForAll mini-conference in support of World Commons Week 2019. The recordings will be made available at the GeoForAll webinar channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL1E2akvCNWP_nC0p5CpB8g/videos We wish everyone a very productive week of celebrating the commons scholarship and practice. Best wishes, Suchith [1] https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy Tue Oct 8 17:02:56 2019 From: sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy (SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 15:02:56 +0000 Subject: [Gvsig_english] Vol.5 no.10 GeoForAll Newsletter In-Reply-To: <1570546951652.9442@mtop.gub.uy> References: <20191007132112.Horde.o1vkgq4fnOr4bmB55bSAGxv@webmail.auth.gr>, <1570546951652.9442@mtop.gub.uy> Message-ID: <1570546976442.93186@mtop.gub.uy> Dear all, The October 2019 issue has been uploaded onto GeoForAll website (https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/ and/or https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/geo-newsletters-archive/) in pdf format and in Spanish. I would like to thank all those who helped with their contributions to have both editions and ask for new volunteers to join the Newsletter by sending their articles, announcements, news, etc. For those who would like to sent articles, news, etc., to be published in the next issue (November 2019 issue) please have in mind that the deadline is October, 26. Please, if you know about a conference or you are going to organize one, send a reminder much earlier so we can disseminate it through our Newsletter. Have a nice reading Nikos Lambrinos -- ??. ????? ????????? ????????? ??? ??????????? ??? ?????????? ????? ????????? ??????????? ?.?.?. 54124 ??????????? ???.: 2310 991201 / 991230 Email: labrinos at eled.auth.gr Web Page: http://users.auth.gr/labrinos/ http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ https://www.auth.gr/univUnits --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Nikos Lambrinos Professor of Geography Teaching Director of Digital Analysis and Educational Design Laboratory President of the Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence Faculty of Education School of Primary Education Dept. of Science and New Technologies Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece Tel: +30 2310 991201 Email: labrinos at eled.auth.gr Web Page: http://users.auth.gr/labrinos/ http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ https://www.auth.gr/en/univUnits From sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy Tue Oct 15 17:01:39 2019 From: sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy (SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:01:39 +0000 Subject: [Gvsig_english] Video recording posted GeoForAll lab webinar "mini-conference" Oct 10 In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: <1571151698752.18840@mtop.gub.uy> ?Thank you Victoria, Rafael and Charlie. 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo (Video with English translation) The presentation from Victor Sunday (Unique Mappers Team) shares the work on 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. 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. He showed GeoNode http://geonode.org an open source Content Management System for GIS. There are many examples of Geonode implementations for example the World Food Program https://geonode.wfp.org that might be of wider interest. I want to thank all speakers for sharing their experiences and ideas. 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 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 the UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre in Poland has been doing pioneering work on Environmental Management , Active Education over many years. Details at https://www.gridw.pl/en/opensourcegeolab One of the inspiring work that they are involved is the GIS at School http://www.edugis.pl/en/images/stories/guide/gis-at-school.pdf 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. So it is now my duty to help open the doors of geoeducation and geodigital economy opportunities to everyone. Details at https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/please-share-open-principles-science-and-education-ideas-and-philosophy I am grateful to everyone working to make geoeducation and digital economy opportunities available for everyone. Best wishes, Suchith -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: