Edu current initiatives

OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives
The official website is online at http://www.geoforall.org - locations: ICA-OSGeo Map

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

 * OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites
 * University of Nottingham's educational content database (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share
 * Webinar Series

2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network
This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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 and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at MOU_ICA.

Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network
Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude, if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the ICA-OSGeo Map) :

Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network?
As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:
 * 1) North America - Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
 * 2) South America - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
 * 3) Europe -  Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Anne Ghilsa (Germany)
 * 4) Asia (including Australia)- Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
 * 5) 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.

Key requirements for establishing a local Lab and joining the "Geo for All" initiative
(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the ICA-OSGeo MoU to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software ,open data and open education in the future.

(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 both OSGeo and ICA 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.

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.

Meetings

 * Next meeting:


 * Past Meetings:
 * 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

ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas
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