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Jeroen Ticheler studied Tropical Forestry at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wageningen_University Wageningen University]] with specialization in GIS and Remote Sensing. Upon graduation in 1997 he worked on Participatory Soil Fertility Management in Africa at the [http://www.kit.nl/ Royal Institute for the Tropics] of The Netherlands (also: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropenmuseum Tropenmuseum]]) until he joined the [http://www.fao.org Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO FAO]] in 1999.
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He initiated the [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource] project in 2000 as the foundation for the spatial data management in FAO: [http://www.fao.org/geonetwork FAO GeoNetwork].
 
 
 
He has been promoting the use of international standards and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_Open_Source_Software Free and Open Source Software]] for geographic data and information ever since he started working on GeoNetwork opensource.
 
 
 
Other initiatives:
 
* The [http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/opensdi OpenSDI] to start discussions on development of a FOSS based SDI software stack.
 
* The United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSDI UNSDI]] process (see also [http://www.ungiwg.org/unsdi.htm UNGIWG UNSDI]). It started with a small workshop named ''the UNSDI Workshop'', although it was better known as the first GeoNetwork workshop in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO FAO]] in 2005.
 
 
 
He participated in writing the UNSDI Reference Architecture document that can be downloaded from the [http://www.ungiwg.org/unsdi.htm UNGIWG] website.
 
 
 
He's a fan, supporter and member of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation Open Source Geospatial Foundation]] board that has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software.
 
 
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ticheler Jeroen Ticheler] on Wikipedia
 
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