Edu current initiatives

2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives

The official website is online at http://www.geoforall.org

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

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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.

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)	Application recieved / Announced	Notes (collaborations, etc)	Contact names	Contact emails
1.	University of Nottingham	Nottingham	UK	Europe	-1.250296, 52.831497			Jeremy Morley	Jeremy dot Morley 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		Martin Landa
5.	Newcastle University	Newcastle	UK	Europe	-1.611536, 54.980656	2013-01-17		Philip James	philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
6.	Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como	Como	Italy	Europe	9.095939, 45.803516	2013-02-25		Maria Brovelli	geowb at geomatica.como.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 Woloszynska-Wisniewska	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		Massimiliano Cannata	geomatica at supsi.ch
10.	ETH Zurich	Zurich	Switzerland	Europe	8.5481, 47.3764	2013-09-20	Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich	Ionuț Iosifescu	iosifescu at ethz.ch
11.	University of Molise	Molise	Italy	Europe	14.493651, 41.630815		in process of being established	Rosella Nocera
12.	Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (IGiK)	Warsaw	Poland	Europe	21.012229, 52.229676		in process of being established	Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
13.	Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest	Bucharest	Romania	Europe	26.103889, 44.432500		in process of being established; new website under development	Andreea Marin	andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
14.	Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary	Székesfehérvár	Hungary	Europe	18.418833, 47.188778		in process of being established	Andrea Pődör
15.	Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences	Stuttgart	Germany	Europe	9.17370, 48.77996	2013-10-14	in process of being established	Franz-Josef Behr	franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
16.	Federal University of Paraná	Paraná	Brazil	South America	-49.26141, -25.427074	2012-05-23		Silvana Camboim
17.	São Paulo State University (UNESP)	São Paulo	Brazil	South America	-46.654129, -23.576574
18.	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	Andrea Birgit Chavez
19.	Universidad de la República	Montevideo	Uruguay	South America	-56.176441, -34.902405	2013-03-01	new website under development	Virginia Fernandez	vfernandez@presidencia.gub.uy
20.	University of Campinas	Campinas	Brazil	South America	-47.063239, -22.907105		in process of being established
21.	Federal University of Alagoas	Maceió	Brazil	South America	-35.735098, -9.666251		in process of being established
22.	Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University	Raleigh, NC	USA	North America	-78.6764, 35.7818	2012-10-18		Helena Mitasova	hmitaso at ncsu.edu
23.	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst	USA	North America	-72.524696, 42.393578	2012-10-18	website: coming soon	Charlie Schweik
24.	University of Kansas	Lawrence, KS	USA	North America	-95.251311, 38.958578	2013-08-23	in process of being established	Xingong Li	lixi@ku.edu
25.	University of California, Davis	Davis	USA	North America	-121.766945, 38.548801	2013-02-04	in process of being established	Alex Mandel	aimandel@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@zacatecas.gob.mx
27.	Kent State University	Kent, Ohio	USA	North America	-81.357886,41.153667	2013-08-30		Xinyue Ye	xye5@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	website in development	Tuong Thuy Vu	Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my
30.	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)	Johor Bahru	Malaysia	Asia	101.874222, 2.943748		in process of being established
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
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		Dr K S Rajan
34.	Geospatial Research and Education Lab(GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)	Islamabad	Pakistan	Asia	73.175045, 33.520060			Rizwan Bulbul	bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
35.	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		in process of being established	Hussein Farah	farah@rcmrd.org
37.	University of Ghana	Accra	Ghana	Africa	-0.191617, 5.650366		in process of being established	Foster Mensah
38.	The University of Melbourne	Melbourne	Australia	Australia	144.962006, -37.797932	2013-07-22		Chris Pettit
39.	Texas A&M University	Corpus Christi	USA	North America	-97.328799, 27.714506	2013-09-09	in process of being established	Rick Smith	Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
40.	CEPT University	Ahmedabad	India	Asia	72.566004,23.039568	2012-07-18	in process of being established	Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal	anjanavyas@cept.ac.in rawalnet@cept.ac.in
41.	National University of San Juan	San Juan	Argentina	South America	-68.521408, -31.527273	2012-06-15	in process of being established	Agustin Arroqui	aarroqui@unsj.edu.ar
42.	Arizona State University	Tempe, AZ	USA	North America	-111.940005, 33.425510	2013-09-27	in process of being established
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	in process of being established	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	website in construction	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.	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Penang	Malaysia	Asia	100.484623, 5.263234	2013-10-16	in process of being established	Ruslan Rainis
49.	Kathmandu University	Dhulikhel	Nepal	Asia	85.550000, 27.616667	2012-12-24	in process of being established	Shashish Maharjan
50	GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach	San Michele all'Adige (Trento)	Italy	Europe	11.133042,46.187865	2013-10-16		Luca Delucchi	luca.delucchi at fmach.it
51.	University of South Wales	Cardiff	United Kingdom	Europe	-3.179090,51.481581	2013-10-31		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	In process of being established	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	In process of being established	Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb	adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
55.	University of Gloucestershire	Gloucester and Cheltenham	United Kingdom	Europe	51.872215,-2.223409	2013-11-06	In process of being established	Dr Robert Berry	rberry at glos.ac.uk

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

ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas

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