Edu current initiatives

OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives

The official website is online at http://www.geoforall.org - locations: Geo for All 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

• Webinar Series

2) Continue to expand the "Geo for All" initiative

This initiative is led by Suchith Anand.

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 across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software, open data, open standards training and expertise. ISPRS joined this initiative in 2014. The motto of Geo for All Lab initiative is "Geo For All".Central to "Geo for All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone. Details at MOU_ICA.

All interested organisations must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

Current members of the Geo for All Labs Network

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

There are two tables, the first one for university/education/schools members ; second table for Industry ,Government and NGO partners of "Geo for All" mission, please select one accordingly.All interested organisations joining as "labs" or "partners"must be committed to contribute to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

To add a new member copy an existing table entry (uses Mediawiki syntax) and input your information. The coordinates are WGS84 decimal coordinates in format longitude, latitude; if you don't add the coordinates following this rule your institution will not show on the Geo for All Map. The script to generate the map is available here http://www.geoforall.org/locations/update_geojson.py

University/Higher Education/Schools members

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	Laboratory name and institution	City	Country	Continent	Coordinates (longitude, latitude)	Application received / Announced	Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)	Contact names	Contact emails
1.	University of Nottingham	Nottingham	UK	Europe	-1.250296, 52.831497			Stuart Marsh	Stuart dot Marsh at nottingham.ac.uk
2.	University of Girona	Girona	Spain	Europe	2.837305, 41.967426	2012-09-10		Lluís Vicens	lluis at sigte.udg.edu
3.	University of Southampton	Southampton	UK	Europe	-1.396873, 50.936974	2013-04-30		Jason Sadler	osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
4.	Czech Technical University in Prague	Prague	Czech Republic	Europe	14.390363, 50.10183	2012-11-23	Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, GRASS GIS and QGIS development	Martin Landa	martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
5.	Open Source Geospatial Lab Newcastle University	Newcastle	UK	Europe	-1.611536, 54.980656	2013-01-17		Dr David Fairbairn	david.fairbairn@newcastle.ac.uk
6.	Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como	Como	Italy	Europe	9.095939, 45.803516	2013-02-25	Geospatial analysis and geovisualization, Geo Big Data, VGI and citizen science	Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli	maria.brovelli@polimi.it
7.	University of Warwick	Warwick	UK	Europe	-1.56273, 52.380531	2013-03-23		Nataliya Tkachenko	geolab at warwick.ac.uk
8.	UNEP/GRID Warsaw Centre	Warsaw	Poland	Europe	21.039473, 52.198849	2013-03-18		Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska	ela at gridw.pl
9.	University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)	Lugano	Switzerland	Europe	8.961098, 46.028362	2013-09-03	Institute of Earth Sciences	Massimiliano Cannata	geomatica at supsi.ch
10.	Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at ETH Zurich	Zurich	Switzerland	Europe	8.5481, 47.3764	2013-09-20	Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich	Raimund Schnürer	schnuerer at ethz.ch
11.	University of Molise	Molise	Italy	Europe	14.493651, 41.630815		Teaching Geospatial Analysis and Modeling using QGIS and other OSGeo software	Rossella Nocera	rossella.nocera at unimol.it
12.	Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (IGiK)	Warsaw	Poland	Europe	21.013407, 52.178478			Prof. Dr. Marek Baranowski	Marek.Baranowski@igik.edu.pl
13.	Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest	Bucharest	Romania	Europe	26.103889, 44.432500		new website under development	Andreea Marin	andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
14.	University Alba Regia Technical Faculty Institute of Geoinformatics OSGeo Lab	Székesfehérvár	Hungary	Europe	18.418833, 47.188778			Andrea Podör	podor.andrea@amk.uni-obuda.hu
15.	Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences	Stuttgart	Germany	Europe	9.17370, 48.77996	2013-10-14	FOSS@HFT: Open Source Group at University of Applied Sciences; Open Source based geospatial education; OSGEo Certification framework	Franz-Josef Behr	franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
16.	Laboratorio Geoespacial Livre, Federal University of Paraná	Paraná	Brazil	South America	-49.23329, -25.45304	2012-05-23	Active - Website Laboratório Geoespacial Livre Research on: Academic and Collaborative SDI; Geo Big Data, Geovisualization, Indoor Mapping, Data Quality, Use and User Issues, VGI.	Silvana Camboim	silvanacamboim at gmail.com
17.	Institute of Geography, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University	Kosice	Slovakia	Europe	21.2460432, 48.7288883	2016-04-25	Open source GIS course, development and applications of GRASS GIS; R; MapServer; LAStools; MeshLab; CloudCompare; Blender	Jaroslav Hofierka	jaroslav.hofierka@upjs.sk
18.	OSGeoLabUD, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas	Bogotá	Colombia	South America	-74.06564, 4.62799	2017-02-22	OSGeoLabUD, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas	Paulo Cesar Coronado Sanchez	paulo_cesar@udistrital.edu.co
19.	Universidad de la República	Montevideo	Uruguay	South America	-56.176441, -34.902405	2013-03-01	Laboratorio de Técnicas Aplicadas al Análisis del Territorio	Virginia Fernandez	vivi@fcien.edu.uy
20.	Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Ambientale e Meccanica, University of Trento	Trento	Italy	Europe	11.139053, 46.064827		Tutorials in the Italian and English languages	Clara Tattoni	clara.tattoni at unitn.it
21.	University of Heidelberg	Heidelberg	Germany	Europe	8.67024, 49.41739	2016-02-08	Heidelberg GIScience	Alexander Zipf and Bernhard Hofle
22.	North Carolina State University OSGeoREL	Raleigh, NC	USA	North America	-78.6764, 35.7818	2012-10-18	Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, GRASS GIS development, course development	Helena Mitasova	hmitaso at ncsu.edu
23.	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst	USA	North America	-72.524696, 42.393578	2012-10-18	Developed and supports a web-based academic paper review system for use at FOSS4G global and regional conferences (http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/); collaboration on open educational; and grant efforts to support GeoForAll's activities.	Charlie Schweik	cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
24.	University of Kansas	Lawrence, KS	USA	North America	-95.251311, 38.958578	2013-08-23		Xingong Li	lixi at ku.edu
25.	Center for Spatial Sciences, University of California, Davis	Davis	USA	North America	-121.766945, 38.548801	2013-02-04	R-Spatial.org,OSGeo-Live	Alex Mandel	aimandel at ucdavis.edu
26.	Laboratorio de Software Libre	Zacatecas	Mexico	North America	-102.5791, 22.7608	2013-04-05	in process of being established	Manual Haro	manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
27.	Kent State University	Kent, Ohio	USA	North America	-81.357886, 41.153667	2013-08-30		Xinyue Ye	xye5 at kent.edu
28.	Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte	Charlotte, NC	USA	North America	-80.730000, 35.306944	2013-09-05		Wenwu Tang	WenwuTang at uncc.edu
29.	University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus	Semenyih	Malaysia	Asia	101.721298, 3.172932	2012-01-09	OSGEO research lab	Tuong Thuy Vu	Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
30.	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)	Johor Bahru	Malaysia	Asia	101.874222, 2.943748		Website under construction. Teaching GIS software using QGIS and other OSGEO products. Introduce web based mapping tools using MapGuide Open Source and QGIS.	Nurul Hawani Idris	hawani at utm.my
31.	National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines	Manila	Philippines	Asia	121.059875, 14.656005		in process of being established	Noriel Christopher Tiglao	nctiglao at gmail.com
32.	Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)	Quezon City	Philippines	Asia	121.062241, 14.64372		in process of being established	Maning Sambale
33.	Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIIT Hyderabad	Hyderabad	India	Asia	78.3503, 17.4454	2011-08-22	LSI, a unique center in India that promotes Open Source GeoSpatial Research and System building efforts at multiple levels since 2006. Also, an active proponent for use of Open Source and Open Technology in Educational initiatives and eGovernance Projects.	Dr K S Rajan	rajan@iiit.ac.in
34.	Geospatial Research and Education Lab(GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)	Islamabad	Pakistan	Asia	73.175045, 33.520060			Waqas Qazi	waqas(dot)qazi(at)grel(dot)ist(dot)edu(dot)pk
35.	Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria	Pretoria	South Africa	Africa	28.22847, -25.75429	2012-05-15		Serena Coetzee	serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
36.	Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)	Nairobi	Kenya	Africa	36.858574, -1.249038			Hussein Farah	farah at rcmrd.org
37.	University of Ghana	Accra	Ghana	Africa	-0.191617, 5.650366			Foster Mensah
38.	The University of Melbourne	Melbourne	Australia	Australia	144.962006, -37.797932	2013-07-22		Jack Barton	jack.barton at unimelb.edu.au
39.	Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi	Corpus Christi	USA	North America	-97.328799, 27.714506	2013-09-09	FOSS4G curriculum development focusing on QGIS and GRASS. Curriculum available on our website.	Rick Smith	Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
40.	Center for Applied Geomatics, CEPT University[1]	Ahmedabad	India	Asia	72.566004, 23.039568	2012-07-18	Training & Development	Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal	anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
41.	Programa de Gestión de Información y Gestión de Datos -IRPHa Universidad Nacional de San Juan	San Juan	Argentina	South America	-68.57, -31.54	2012-06-15	Nodo de información territorial abierta a investigadores, instituciones y público. Aplicación de software libre para futura infraestructura de datos espaciales, interoperabilidad y webservices./ Node for Territorial information open to researchers, institutions and public. Free software application for future spatial data infrastructure, interoperability and webservices	Esp. Lic. María Valentina Soria	valentina@unsj.edu.ar; pgid.irpha@gmail.com
42.	GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University	Tempe, AZ	USA	North America	-111.940005, 33.425510	2013-09-27	Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - GeoDa, PySAL, GeoDaSpace	Luc Anselin	geodacenter at asu.edu
43.	National Technical University of Athens	Athens	Greece	Europe	23.729310, 37.983716	2013-09-26	in process of being established
44.	IGN- France	Paris	France	Europe	2.352222, 48.856614	2013-09-26	in process of being established	Benedicte Bucher
45.	Universitat Oberta de Catalunya	Barcelona	Spain	Europe	2.173403, 41.385064	2013-09-27	From UOC, we give some geospatial courses integrated in more general curricula, like telecommunications or data science. From the research point of view, we apply the GIS techniques to logistics and indoor positioning.	Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro	aperezn at uoc.edu
46.	ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation	Wageningen	The Netherlands	Europe	5.665662, 51.9875	2013-10-02	Active	Jorge de Jesus	jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
47.	Universidade da Coruña	A Coruña (España)	Spain	Europe	-8.411540, 43.362344	2013-10-15	in process of being established	Alberto Varela García
48.	Geoinformatic Unit, Universiti Sains Malaysia	Penang	Malaysia	Asia	100.484623, 5.263234	2013-10-16	Teaching and conducting research on geographical information science using QGIS & various other OSGEO products. Had done research on use opensource GIS for secondary schools. http://campusgis.usm.my/	Ruslan Rainis	rruslan at usm.my
49.	Kathmandu University	Dhulikhel	Nepal	Asia	85.550000, 27.616667	2012-12-24	https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/	Shashish Maharjan
50	GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach	San Michele all'Adige (Trento)	Italy	Europe	11.133042, 46.187865	from 2013-10-16 to 2016-02-01	Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, GRASS GIS and pyMODIS development	Luca Delucchi	luca.delucchi at fmach.it
51.	University of South Wales	Cardiff	United Kingdom	Europe	-3.179090, 51.481581	2013-10-31	Spatial processing on the web using open standards and open source software	Dr Mark Ware	mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
52.	Portland State University	Portland, Oregon	USA	North America	-122.676207, 45.523452	2013-10-22	Warming up	David Percy	percy at pdx.edu
53.	IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center	Nairobi	Kenya	Africa	36.821946, -1.292066	2013-10-29	In process of being established	Muyambi Fortunate	fbenda at icpac.net
54.	Federal University of Ceará	Ceará	Brazil	South America	-38.543395, -3.718394	2013-10-29	Active - Website Laboratório de Geoprocessamento da UFC	Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb	adryanegorayeb@gmail.com
55.	University of Gloucestershire	Gloucester and Cheltenham	United Kingdom	Europe	-2.223409, 51.872215	2013-11-06	Active	Dr Robert Berry	osgeolab at glos.ac.uk
56.	University of Moratuwa	Moratuwa	Sri Lanka	Asia	79.9008, 6.7964	2013-11-11	OSGeoSL	Aruna Wickramasinghe	toaruna at gmail.com
57.	Fudan University	Shanghai	China	Asia	121.452, 31.198	2013-11-14	Open Source STATistics	Zhijie Zhang	epistat at gmail.com
58.	Haskell Indian Nations University	Lawrence, Kansas	USA	North America	-95.230691, 38.938859	2013-11-22	Haskell Indian Nations University	Dave McDermott	dmcdermott at haskell.edu
59.	University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy	Zagreb	Croatia	Europe	15.963888, 45.808500	2013-11-25		Dražen Tutic	dtutic at geof.hr
60.	GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State	La Paz	Bolivia	South America	-68.1547, -16.4949	2013-11-24	Active	Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez	rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
61.	Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick	Fredericton, NB	Canada	North America	-66.641474, 45.950252	2013-12-10	Active	Emmanuel Stefanakis	emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
62.	Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka	Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa	Sri Lanka	Asia	80.78995, 6.7102	2013-12-12	In process of being established	Thilantha Dammalage	thilantha9 at gmail.com
63.	Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology	Malabe	Sri Lanka	Asia	79.973166667, 6.914866667	2013-12-13	OSGeoSLIIT	Nimalika Fernando	nimalikaf at gmail.com
64.	University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences	Geneva	Switzerland	Europe	6.1487, 46.2253	2013-12-19	(published 2014-07-24)	Gregory Giuliani	gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
65.	Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil	Rapperswil	Switzerland	Europe	8.81690, 47.22341	2014-01-26	(published 2014-02-05)	Prof. Stefan Keller	sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
66.	National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty	Kyiv	Ukraine	Europe	30.515647, 50.456936	2014-02-16	In proess of being established	Tetyana Kuchma	tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
67.	Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport	Thessaloniki	Greece	Europe	22.996707, 40.567811	2014-02-17	In process of being established	Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis	emit at certh.gr
68.	Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo	Kashiwa-shi, Chiba	Japan	Asia	139.938952, 35.902681	2014-02-18	VGI and Neocartography studies @ Divisions of Research Initiative for Global Geospatial Information, Urban Data Challenge	Dr. Toshikazu Seto	tosseto at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
69.	FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium	Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas	USA	North America	-97.407096, 27.764053	2014-02-18	Active	Dr. Phillip Davis	pdavis at delmar.edu
70.	Osaka City University(OCU)	Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka	Japan	Asia	135.507556, 34.593067	2014-02-23	Active	Venkatesh RAGHAVAN	venka.osgeo at gmail.com
71.	Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica	Genova	Italy	Europe	8.962795, 44.400133	2014-03-21	Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)	Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso	bianca.federici at unige.it
72.	Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Spain	Europe	-15.456207, 28.069303	2014-03-23		Fernando Toscano Benítez	sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
73.	Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY	New York	US	North America	-73.964831, 40.768703	2014-04-04		Carson Farmer	carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
74.	Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH	Thessaloniki	Greece	Europe	22.961498, 40.627516	2014-04-05	http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/ http://www.auth.gr/en/units/19861	Nikos Lambrinos	labrinos at eled.auth.gr
75.	Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg	Salzburg	Austria	Europe	13.039586, 47.823711	2014-04-14	The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems	Hermann Klug	hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
76.	The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary	Calgary	Canada	North America	-114.132457, 51.079735	2014-04-22	in the process of being established	Andrew Hunter	ahunter at ucalgary.ca
77.	Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)	Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva	Israel	Europe	34.78346, 30.85332	2014-04-22	in the process of being established	Yaakov GARB	ygarb at bgu.ac.il
78.	University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of geodesy and geoinformatics	Belgrade	Serbia	Europe	20.476321, 44.805499	2014-05-03	http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/	Milan Kilibarda	kili at grf.bg.ac.rs
79.	Open Geospatial Laboratory of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS	Changchun, Jilin	China	Asia	125.400779, 43.99896	2014-05-26	http://lab.osgeo.cn/en	Bu Kun	See Profile page
80.	Bay College	Escanaba, Michigan	USA	North America	-87.163050, 45.773875	2014-06-07	GIS degree in process of being established.	Karl Linderoth	linderok at baycollege.edu
81.	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK) OSGeo Research and Education Lab, Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology	Kyiv	Ukraine	Europe	30.4752782, 50.3825971	2014-07-11	Geospatial analysis and modeling for landscape-ecological studies, and spatial planning; QGIS, SAGA GIS, and PostGIS; QGIS Ukraine User Group; http://lab.osgeo.org.ua	Daria Svidzinska	d.svidzinska at gmail.com
82.	University of Colorado Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences	Denver, CO	USA	North America	-105.0019444, 39.0122222	2014-08-17	http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ PostGIS tutorials and spatial analysis with PostGIS	Rafael Moreno	Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu
83.	French Space Agency CNES	Toulouse	France	Europe	1.481608, 43.561984	2014-07-17	in the process of being established	Manuel Grizonnet	manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr
84.	Comunidad gvSIG Uruguay	Montevideo	Uruguay	South America	-56.203617, -34.905912	2014-08-15	Comunidad gvSIG Uruguay Blog SIG Libre Uruguay gvSIG Batoví Blog gvSIG Batoví	Sergio Acosta Y Lara; Ma. Victoria Álvarez; Alí Silva, Nadia Chaer; Diego Cabrera	sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; victoria.alvarez@imm.gub.uy; alis@correo.com.uy; nchaer@farq.edu.uy; dcabrera@mides.gub.uy
85.	Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics	Budapest	Hungary	Europe	19.054403, 47.481916	2014-08-19	in/outdoor positioning, sensor integration, QGIS plugins, MapServer, GRASS GIS, PostGIS, OSGeo Live, ... Tutorials, Conferences	Zoltan Siki	siki.zoltan at epito.bme.hu
86.	Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University	Cambridge MA	USA	North America	-71.116913, 42.376398	2014-09-17	Active, WorldMap	Ben Lewis	blewis at cga.harvard.edu
87.	Community Mapping Lab Green Mountain College	Poultney, VT	USA	North America	-73.240679, 43.515866	2014-09-17	in process of being established, http://gmcmaplab.blog.com/?page_id=50	John Van Hoesen	vanhoesenj at greenmtn.edu
88.	National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC), UNC Asheville	Asheville, NC	USA	North America	-82.55149, 35.59506	2014-09-18	in process of being established	John Derek Morgan	jdmorgan at unca.edu
89.	Birds Eye View GIS	Albuquerque, NM	USA	North America	-106.60893, 35.068353	2014-09-18	FOSS4G Educator at Central New Mexico Community College, Del Mar College and the University of New Mexico. Co-author Mastering QGIS , GeoAcademy, and author Discover QGIS	Kurt Menke	kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
90.	Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Ryerson University	Toronto	Canada	North America	-79.38097, 43.65910	2014-10-03	Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software	Claus Rinner	crinner at ryerson dot ca
91.	School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management , University of Queensland	Brisbane	Australia	Australia	153.014556, -27.497340	2014-12-12	Website under construction	David Pullar	d.pullar at uq.edu.au
92.	ETIS Lab ENSEA UCP CNRS UMR 8051 , University of Cergy Pontoise	Cergy Pontoise	France	Europe	2.085741, 49.043274	2015-03-10	Website under construction	Dimitris Kotzinos	kotzino at gmail.com
93.	Department of Global Studies, Warren Wilson College	Asheville NC	USA	North America	-82.4420794, 35.6115585	2015-04-19	Website under construction	David Abernathy	dabernathy@warren-wilson.edu
94.	The Spatial Lab, Dept of Geography & Environmental Studies Wilfrid Laurier University	Waterloo, ON	Canada	North America	-80.529557, 43.474073	2015-05-01		Colin Robertson	crobertson at wlu.ca
95.	National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences	Cairo	Egypt	Africa	30.0500, 31.2333	2015-05-01	Improving the quality of Education/Vocational Education using Geospatial Technology based on FOSS	Rania Elsayed	ranyaalsayed at gmail.com
96.	Geomatics and Virtual Reality Research Group, Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies	Novosibirsk	Russian Federation	Europe	82.863503, 54.986816	2015-05-18	In process of being established	Alexey Kolesnikov, Pavel Kikin	alekseykw at gmail.com, it-technologies at yandex.ru
97.	SMART Open Source Geospatial Laboratory, University of Wollongong	Wollongong	Australia	Australia	150.87889, -34.40596	2014-10-17		Dr Tomas Holderness	tomas at uow.edu.au
98.	Department of Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics	Budapest	Hungary	Europe	19.054717, 47.481911	2015-06-29	geoscope lab: Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, Curriculum development on QGIS	Dr. Gyorgy Szabo	szabo.gyorgy at epito.bme.hu
99.	Geospatial Exploration Lab, Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University	Johnson City, Tennessee	USA	North America	-82.3700950, 36.3000590	2015-06-18	Research and Applied Geospatial Projects; Research includes Hydrological Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar (GRP), Hazard/Disaster Modeling and Mapping, Climatological Modeling and Mapping, and Species Distribution Modeling; Applied Geospatial Projects include server- and app-based solutions for campus, local cities and counties, micro UAV (drone) videography and photo imaging, and community GIS support; Website: http://etsugeos.weebly.com/gel.html (Partially constructed)	Dr. Andrew Joyner	joynert@mail.etsu.edu
100.	Dept. of Geoinformatics, Palacký University Olomouc	Olomouc	Czech Republic	Europe	17.26551, 49.593812	2015-06-29	Courses with open source products	Dr. Rostislav Nétek	rostislav.netek@upol.cz
101.	University College London	London	United Kingdom	Europe	-0.133427, 51.524773	2015-07-07	Courses and research making extensive use of open source products and open data, run across UCL including Geomatic Engineering, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Geography and Archaeology.	Dr. Claire Ellul	c.ellul@ucl.ac.uk
102.	A World Bridge	Middletown, New York	USA	North America	-74.438534, 41.451795	2015-07-07	Building advanced curriculum through the design and implementation of real-time, real-world, project-based learning environments.	Ron Fortunato	ron@trilliumlearning.com
103.	IREA-CNR	Via Edoardo Bassini, Milano	Italy	Europe	9.23434, 45.48046	2015-10-05	Activities of IREA in FOSS are mainly related to research in the management of geo-based data and information, and in the development of free and open software to enable storage, management, view and access to geodata.	Alessandro Oggioni	oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it
104.	HEIG-VD GIS-Lab University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland at Yverdon	Route de Cheseaux 1, 1401 Yverdon-les-Bains	Switzerland	Europe	6.65950, 46.77938	2015-10-08	Key competences: spatial databases, modeling, data infrastructures, interoperability, webmapping, spatial webservices, spatial analysis, GIS project management, geovisualization, human-computer interaction and interface design	Prof. Dr. Jens Ingensand	jens.ingensand@heig-vd.ch
105.	Global Studies and Collaboration(GSC), Aoyama Gakuin University	Fuchinobe 5-10-1, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa	Japan	Asia	139.4030, 35.5664	2015-11-05	Courses with open source products and open data. In addition, There is OpenStreetMap basecamp/CrisisMappers Japan base.	Prof. Taichi FURUHASHI	taichi at gsc.aoyama.ac.jp
106.	Remote Sensing & GIS, Asian Institute of Technology	58 Moo 9, Km. 42, Paholyothin Highway, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120	Thailand	Asia	100.612086, 14.079753	2015-11-24	Open-source Web mapping, LBS, crowd sourcing, Sensor Web, OGC Web Services and QGIS plugins; research, teaching, and consulting using OGS Web Services,QGIS and other OSGeo software	Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat	sarawutn at ait.ac.th
107.	Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group, School of Information Technology and Computing, American University of Nigeria	98 Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola By-Pass, P.M.B. 2250,Yola, Adamawa State	Nigeria	Africa	12.4996909, 9.1911318	2015-11-25	Open-source Web mapping, participatory Geoweb, and spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tools; research, teaching, and consulting using QGIS and other OSGeo software	Prof. Kalum Priyanath Udagepola	kalum.udagepola at aun.edu.ng
108.	Department of Geography	Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashad	Iran	Asia	59.534125, 36.306903	2016-02-01		Dr. Masoud Minaei	m.minaei at um.ac.ir, minaei.masoud at gmail.com
109.	Laboratorio Dati Economici Storici Territoriali University of Siena	Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 10 - 53100 Siena	Italy	Europe	11.332129, 43.312688	2016-04-23	Key competences: GIS; data collection; spatial analysis; territorial data mapping; agent-based spatial modelling; volunteered geographic information; social media analysis	Prof. Cristina Capineri; Stefano Picascia	{cristina,stefano}@ladestlab.it
110.	Spatial Analysis Research Group Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens	El. Venizelou 70, Kallithea 17671, Athens	Greece	Europe	23.70755, 37.96124	2016-06-19	Key competences: spatial analysis; GIS; vizualisation; open data creation; QGIS, statistical programming with R; R package lctools; spatial inequalities; python; spatial interaction modelling	Ass. Prof. Stamatis Kalogirou	skalo@hua.gr
111.	Geoinformatics Lab, Department of Civil Engineering PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India	Sector 12, Chandigarh, 160012	India	Asia	76.780893, 30.766247	2016-09-12		Ass. Prof. Har Amrit Singh Sandhu	haramritsingh.pec@gmail.com
112.	DePaul University, Department of Geography	Chicago	USA	North America	-87.6269709, 41.8775909	2016-10-28		Cassandra Follett	CFOLLETT@depaul.edu
113.	University of Wisconsin, Cartography Lab	Madison	USA	North America	-89.4011849, 43.075844	2016-12-01		Carl Sack	cmsack@wisc.edu
114.	Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS)	Nairobi	Kenya	Africa	36.816531, -1.279007	2016-12-14		Kiringai Kamau	kiringai@gmail.com
115.	Spatiotemporal Data Research and Education Laboratory Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Computer Science Department	Edwardsville, IL	USA	North America	-90.0009, 38.7917	2017-02-03		Mark McKenney	marmcke@siue.edu
116.	Lakeland Community College, Geography and Geospatial Technology	Kirtland, OH	USA	North America	41.6333, -81.3666	2017-04-17	Geospatial education, spatial data management, geospatial intelligence, watershed modeling and analysis.	Bobby Oliver	boliver@lakelandcc.edu
117.	GIS Lab of Ewha Womans University Dept of Social Studies (Geography), Ewha Womans University	52, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul	South Korea	Asia	126.946214, 37.5650726	2017-06-26	Key competences: GIS; Spatial Analysis; Vizualisation; Open Source GIS Software, Education with Geospatial Technology	Prof. Youngok Kang	ykang@ewha.ac.kr
118.	School of Science & Technology GeoForAll Lab of The University of Fiji	Saweni, Lautoka	Fiji Islands	South Pacific	177.4079991, -17.6686835	2017-07-06	Key competences: GIS, Spatial Analysis, Vizualisation, Education with Geospatial Technology, Systems Development, Data Collection, Database Management, Systems Integration, Network Modelling/Simulation/Analysis, Web Mapping, Application Development, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoServer, MapServer, OpenLayers, GeoEXT, GeoExplorer, GDAL, QGIS Server, QGIS Desktop, QGIS Web Client, Lizmap Web Client, Python and GRASS + R.	Professor A B M Shawkat Ali, Edwin Liava'a and Anish Maharaj	shawkata@unifiji.ac.fj; edwinl@unifiji.ac.fj; anishm@unifiji.ac.fj
119.	Laboratorio de Geomática de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá	Bogotá	Colombia	South America	-74.08731, 4.63600	2017-08-09	Apoyo de cursos de Geomática con software libre en la Maestría en Geomática: SIG con QGIS Desktop, Geoservicio con QGIS Server; Apoyo en los cursos de Geomática y Sistemas de Información Geográfica con software libre de QGIS Desktop, GRASS GIS y SAGA GIS en IngenieriaCivil; Apoyo con documentación y material libre a través de GeoTux: http://geotux.tuxfamily.org; Divulgación de scripts de R para análisis geoespacial a través de http://rpubs.com/ials2un, Investigación en el uso de tecnologías geomáticas que apoyen el desarrollo sostenible	Dr. Ivan Alberto Lizarazo Salcedo (Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias); MSc. Samuel Mesa (Facutad de Ingeniería)	ializarazos@unal.edu.co; femesagi@unal.edu.co
120.	Centro de Investigación en Recursos Naturales y Sustentabilidad (CIRENYS), Universidad Bernardo O Higgins	Santiago	Chile	South America	-70.656918, -33.467547	2017-08-09		Dr. Carlos Lara Peña	carlos.lara@ubo.cl
121.	Spatial-Ecology and GeoComputation at Yale	New Haven, CT	USA	North America	-72.920816, 41.320066	2017-25-11	Teaching Open Source Software for GeoComputation under Linux environment through workshops, intensive trainings and summer schools. Info at www.spatial-ecology.net and Spatial-Ecology mailing list	Giuseppe Amatulli	giuseppe.amatulli at gmail.com
122.	University of Mauritius	Reduit Moca	Mauritius	Africa	57.497599, -20.233947	2017-11-15	in process to be established	Nikesh Heerowa	genevamis@govmu.org
123.	A World Bridge	Barrow	Alaska	North America	-156.779008, 71.289655	2018-4-5	delivering data including climate change studies for USGS, NOAA and NASA	Ron Fortunato	ron@trilliumlearning.com
124.	Pete Fisher Unit, University of Leicester	Leicester	United Kingdom	Europe	-1.139759, 52.636878	2018-4-5	The Pete Fisher Laboratory for Geocomputation	Dr Stefano De Sabbata	s.desabbata@le.ac.uk
125.	LSU GeoForAll Lab, Louisiana State University	Baton Rouge, LA	USA	North America	-91.180909, 30.411775	2018-5-10	Geospatial modeling, digital fabrication, and course development	Brendan Harmon	baharmon@lsu.edu
126.	Tomas Bata University	Zlin	Czech Republic	Europe	17.666866, 49.222782	2018-11-11	Environmental modeling, citizen science	Jakub Trojan	trojan@utb.cz
127.	Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg	Göteborg	Sweden	Europe	57.688529, 11.966565		We are developers of UMEP, a GIS-based climate service tool for practitioners and researchers as well as conducting teaching at all levels in higher education.	Fredrik Lindberg	fredrikl@gvc.gu.se
128.	Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University	Aberystwyth	United Kingdom	Europe	52.416686, -4.066497		The Earth Observation and Ecosystem Dynamics Lab at Aberystwyth University are world leads in the application of spatial data for environmental modelling. Work is primarily undertaken through open source software and we produce the following software tools RSGISLib, ARCSI and SPDLib while contribute to many more including GDAL, KEALib and pylidar. We run an MSc in Remote Sensing and GIS with a focus on open source tools, scripting and analysis of large datasets.	Dr Pete Bunting	pfb@aber.ac.uk
129.	Indikatrix.org	Budapest	Hungary	Europe	19.1172618, 47.4691018			Dr Ervin Wirth	wirth.ervin@mailbox.org
130.	GeoAlternativa						We have free technology expertise, social participation methodology and environmental solutions aimed at sustainable development.	Alonso Morilla Meneses	amorilla@gvsig.com
131.	Laboratory for Cartography and GIS, University of Nebraska	Omaha	USA	North America	-96.0116352, 41.2580265		Three different computer laboratories are used for geospatial instruction at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The Cartography and GIS Laboratory pictured here is used for instruction in open-source technologies.	Michael P. Peterson	mpeterson@unomaha.edu
132.	LabSIG UNGS	Buenos Aires	Argentina	South America	50.4849078, 3.3370012			MG. Nicolás Caloni	ncaloni@ungs.edu.ar
133.	Maynooth University	Kildare	Ireland	Europe	53.385066, -6.601791		In Maynooth University we have two important locations for GeoForAll. The Department of Computer Science carries out a wide range of research into VGI, Citizen Science, Geo Data Quality while the National Center for Geocomputation carries out research into geostatistics, survey, LiDar, population studies, etc.	Dr Peter Mooney	peter.mooney@mu.ie
134.	Nodo IDE del Instituto de Geografía	Buenos Aires	Argentina	South America	-34.6036844, -58.3815591			Nora Claudia Lucioni	noralu@filo.uba.ar
135.	Suresh Gyan Vihar University	Jaipur	India	Asia	75.8613, 26.8090		These courses aim to develop both a solid theoretical understanding and a comprehensive practical introduction to the use of Geoinformatics in the day-today life as well as in the sustainable development of the society and the environment.	Dr Shruti Kanga	shruti.kanga@mygyanvihar.com
136.	UniqueMappersTeam(UMT) Port Harcourt		Nigeria	Africa			We are a team of map enthusiasts using OpenStreetMap to provide free and accessible geographic data for academic research,economic and sustainable development.	Victor N.Sunday	uniquemappersteam@gmail.com
137.	Universidad de Costa Rica – Escuela de Geografía		Costa Rica	Central America	-84.042538, 9.937310		Since 2014 we have implemented the development of courses in the field of GIS and Remote Sensing with free and open source software, in order to educate professionals with better opportunities of development without relying on proprietary software licenses. We are involved in several research projects using free open source GIS software.	Melvin Lizano Araya	melvin.lizanoaraya@ucr.ac.cr
138.	Universidad Tecnológica Nacional	Mendoza	Argentina	South America	-68.853329, -32.897047			Ing. Victor Burgos	vhburgos@yahoo.com.ar
139.	USP Geospatial Science Laboratories	Suva	Fiji	South Pacific	178.447779, -18.148794		USP School of Geography, Earth Science and Environment have been offering GIS courses since 1994.	Prof Nick Rollings	rollings_n@usp.ac.fj
140.	UTU Geospatial		Finland	Europe	22.285146, 60.456165		UTU Geospatial consists of geospatial research, education and cooperation resources and activities at the University of Turku (UTU), Finland.	Niina Käyhkö	niina.kayhko@utu.fi
141.	Spatial@Melbourne	Melbourne	Australia		144.961258, -37.799853		Spatial@Melbourne is a cross-faculty network of researchers at the University of Melbourne working on or with geospatial information.	Stephan Winter	winter@unimelb.edu.au
142.	Oxford University	Oxford	UK						Tkachenko, Nataliya

"Geo for All" Government, Industry and NGO Partners

	Organisation	City	Country	Continent	Coordinates (longitude, latitude)	Application received / Announced	Notes (specify category etc)	Contact names	Contact emails
1.	Sourcepole	Zurich	Switzerland	Europe	8.528522, 47.370273	2015-07-03	Partnership with ETH Zurich	Pirmin Kalberer	info at sourcepole dot com
2.	Attivarti.org	Torniella	Italy	Europe	11.15382, 43.07390	2015-07-12	incubation phase (various links to OSGEO Community and to other geospatial players in Italy and internationally). Focus on VGI and participatory methods.	Andrea Giacomelli	mappare at attivarti dot org
3.	HUNAGI	Budapest	Hungary	Europe	19.05561, 46.48147	2015-08-12	Free data, geodatabases, resource analysis, geospatial modelling.	György Szabó	szabo dot gyorgy at hunagi dot hu
4.	Wat-TUBE (spin-off University of Basilicata)	Potenza	Italy	Europe	15.807793, 40.645470	2015-09-07	Open-source and free (FOSS) software development in the field of flood and landslide risk, flood prediction and analysis, water resources management, hydrology.	Raffaele Albano	raffaele dot albano85 at gmail dot com

Interested in joining or supporting the "Geo for All" initiative?

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 Peter Mooney (Ireland)
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. The full criteria at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria

Key requirements for joining the "Geo for All Labs" initiative

(A) Your local organisation MUST BE COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTE to the vision outlined in the Geo for All MoU [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in free and open source GIS software , FOSS, open data , open access (publications) and contribute to open education in the future. All participants should contribute to Education, Research and Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN Millennium Development Goals [2] http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ for building a better world.

(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 OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS 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.

Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. Open educational resources (OERs) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching and learning. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. 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 and support Open Education initiatives worldwide.

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Past Meetings

• FOSS4G EU Como 2015 Preconference meeting
• 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

Geo for All Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas

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