Edu current initiatives

2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives

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

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.

Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website

Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes, Alternative Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes(thanks to Franz-Josef)

It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

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:

Laboratory name and institution	City	Country	Continent	Coordinates	Notes (collaborations, etc)
University of Nottingham	Nottingham	UK	Europe
University of Girona	Girona	Spain	Europe	41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E
University of Southampton	Southampton	UK	Europe	50.933882, -1.396658
Czech Technical University in Prague	Prague	Czech Republic	Europe
Newcastle University	Newcastle	UK	Europe	54.981189, -1.614617
Politecnico di Milano	Milano	Italy	Europe
University of Warwick	Warwick	UK	Europe
UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre	Warsaw	Poland	Europe
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)		Switzerland	Europe
ETH Zurich	Zurich	Switzerland	Europe		in process of being established
University of Molise	Molise	Italy	Europe		in process of being established
Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (IGiK)	Warsaw	Poland	Europe		in process of being established
University of Bucharest	Bucharest	Romania	Europe		in process of being established
University of West Hungary		Hungary	Europe		in process of being established
Federal University of Paraná	Paraná	Brazil	South America	25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W
São Paulo State University (UNESP)	São Paulo	Brazil	South America
National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)		Peru	South America		in process of being established
Universidad de la República		Uruguay	South America	34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W	new website under development
University of Campinas		Brazil	South America		in process of being established
Federal University of Alagoas		Brazil	South America		in process of being established
North Carolina State University	Raleigh	USA, NC	North America	35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W
Paulos.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst	USA	North America
University of Kansas		USA	North America		in process of being established
University of California	Davis	USA	North America		in process of being established
Laboratorio de Software Libre	Zacatecas	Mexico	North America		in process of being established
Kent State University		USA, Ohio	North America
Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina Charlotte	Charlotte	USA, NC	North America		in process of being established
UNMC		Malaysia	Asia		website in development
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)		Malaysia	Asia		in process of being established
National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines		Philippines	Asia		in process of being established
Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)		Philippines	Asia		in process of being established
Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIIT Hyderabad	Hyderabad	India	Asia
Geospatial Research and Education Lab (GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)	Islamabad	Pakistan	Asia		in process of being established
University of Pretoria	Pretoria	South Africa	Africa
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)		Kenya	Africa		in process of being established
University of Ghana		Ghana	Africa		in process of being established
University of Melbourne	Melbourne	Australia	Australia

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. Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
2. Helena Mitasova - North America
3. Charlie Schweik - South America
4. Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(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 and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(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 the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will 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 (for example the ELOGeo platform). We will also add the info 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

• ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05 18.00 UTC

Past Meetings

• 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