User:Sanand

Suchith Anand


University of Nottingham

Location: Nottingham Geospatial Building, University of Nottingham,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 established the Open Source Geospatial Lab at the University of Nottingham under MoU with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. He is 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. He is also the founder and co-chair of Open Source GIS Conference Series. He also leads the Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data theme for Open 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. His mission is to build up open source, open standards, open data research for bridging the digital divide.

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 * OSGeo Experience


 * Establishing 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
 * Developing and promoting OSGeo Educational initiatives (ELOGeo)
 * Chair of OSGIS conference series
 * Invited speaker and presenter at conferences and events
 * Program Committee of many geospatial conferences
 * Helping to build synergies between OSGeo and ICA
 * Helping to build synergies between OSGeo and ICA


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


 * Profile last updated: 4th July, 2012