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

Updated Leaflet Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes by Vasek and Anna

Leaflet Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes by Luca Delucchi, June 2013, and the related application

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 (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) :

	Laboratory name and institution	City	Country	Continent	Coordinates (longitude, latitude)	Announced	Notes (collaborations, etc)
1.	University of Nottingham	Nottingham	UK	Europe	-1.250296, 52.831497
2.	University of Girona	Girona	Spain	Europe	2.837305, 41.967426	2012-09-10
3.	University of Southampton	Southampton	UK	Europe	-1.396873, 50.936974	2013-04-30
4.	Czech Technical University in Prague	Prague	Czech Republic	Europe	14.390363, 50.10183	2012-11-23
5.	Newcastle University	Newcastle	UK	Europe	-1.611536, 54.980656	2013-01-17
6.	Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como	Como	Italy	Europe	9.095939, 45.803516	2013-02-25
7.	University of Warwick	Warwick	UK	Europe	-1.56273, 52.380531	2013-03-23
8.	UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre	Warsaw	Poland	Europe	21.039473, 52.198849	2013-03-18
9.	University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)	Lugano	Switzerland	Europe	46.028362, 8.961098	2013-09-03
10.	ETH Zurich	Zurich	Switzerland	Europe	47.3764, 8.5481	2013-09-20	Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich
11.	University of Molise	Molise	Italy	Europe			in process of being established
12.	Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (IGiK)	Warsaw	Poland	Europe			in process of being established
13.	University of Bucharest	Bucharest	Romania	Europe	44°25′57″N, 26°6′14″E		in process of being established; new website under development
14.	Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary	Székesfehérvár	Hungary	Europe	47°11'19.6"N, 18°25'07.8"E		in process of being established
15.	Federal University of Paraná	Paraná	Brazil	South America	-49.26141, -25.427074	2012-05-23
16.	São Paulo State University (UNESP)	São Paulo	Brazil	South America	-46.654129, -23.576574
17.	National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)	Puerto Maldonado	Peru	South America	-73.245789, -3.745845	2013-02-01	in process of being established
18.	Universidad de la República	Montevideo	Uruguay	South America	-56.176441, -34.902405	2013-03-01	new website under development
19.	University of Campinas	Campinas	Brazil	South America			in process of being established
20.	Federal University of Alagoas	Maceió	Brazil	South America			in process of being established
21.	Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University	Raleigh, NC	USA	North America	-78.66468, 35.789413	2012-10-18
22.	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst	USA	North America	-72.524696, 42.393578	2012-10-18	website: coming soon....
23.	University of Kansas	Lawrence, KS	USA	North America	38°57'30.88"N, 95°15'4.72"W	2013-08-23	in process of being established
24.	University of California, Davis	Davis	USA	North America	-121.766945, 38.548801	2013-02-04	in process of being established
25.	Laboratorio de Software Libre	Zacatecas	Mexico	North America	22.7608, -102.5791	2013-04-05	in process of being established
26.	Kent State University	Kent, Ohio	USA	North America		2013-08-30
27.	Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte	Charlotte, NC	USA	North America	35°18′25″N, 80°43′48″W	2013-09-05
28.	University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus	Semenyih	Malaysia	Asia	101.721298, 3.172932	2012-01-09	website in development
29.	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)	Johor Bahru	Malaysia	Asia	101.874222, 2.943748		in process of being established
30.	National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines	Manila	Philippines	Asia	121.059875, 14.656005		in process of being established
31.	Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)	Quezon City	Philippines	Asia	121.062241, 14.64372		in process of being established
32.	Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIIT Hyderabad	Hyderabad	India	Asia
33.	Geospatial Research and Education Lab(GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)	Islamabad	Pakistan	Asia	33.520060, 73.175045		in process of being established
34.	University of Pretoria	Pretoria	South Africa	Africa	28.22847, -25.75429	2012-05-15
35.	Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)	Nairobi	Kenya	Africa	36.858574, -1.249038		in process of being established
36.	University of Ghana	Accra	Ghana	Africa	-0.191617, 5.650366		in process of being established
37.	University of Melbourne	Melbourne	Australia	Australia	144.962006, -37.797932	2013-07-22
38.	Texas A&M University	Corpus Christi	USA	North America		2013-09-09	in process of being established
39.	CEPT University	Ahmedabad	India	Asia		2012-07-18	in process of being established
40.	National University of San Juan	San Juan	Argentina	South America		2012-06-15	in process of being established

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