Edu current initiatives

OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives

The official website is online at http://www.geoforall.org - locations: ICA-OSGeo 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 ICA-OSGeo 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.

Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network

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 received / Announced	Notes (projects, 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	Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, GRASS GIS and QGIS development	Martin Landa	martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
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	Institute of Earth Sciences	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	Ionut 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	21.013407, 52.178478		in process of being established	Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
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.	Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary	Székesfehérvár	Hungary	Europe	18.418833, 47.188778		in process of being established	Andrea Podör
15.	Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences	Stuttgart	Germany	Europe	9.17370, 48.77996	2013-10-14		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 at 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		http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
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	Helena Mitasova	hmitaso at ncsu.edu
23.	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst	USA	North America	-72.524696, 42.393578	2012-10-18		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.	University of California, Davis	Davis	USA	North America	-121.766945, 38.548801	2013-02-04	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		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(at)grel(dot)ist(dot)edu(dot)pk
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 at 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	cpettit 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 GitHub.	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 at cept.ac.in rawalnet at 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 at unsj.edu.ar
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	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	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	2013-10-16	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		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	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	-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	In process of being established	Taichi FURUHASHI	taichi 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	In process of being established	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		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 (KNU) 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/	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.	Direccion Nacional de Topografia - MTOP	Montevideo	Uruguay	South America	-56.203617, -34.905912	2014-08-15	gvSIG educa/batovi	Sergio Acosta Y Lara	sergio.acostaylara at mtop.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, http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/osgeolab	Zoltan Siki	siki at agt.bme.hu
86.	Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University	Cambridge MA	USA	North America		2014-09-17	in process of being established, 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 Academy development	Kurt Menke	kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com
90.	Geographic Information Science and Systems Research Group, Department of Geography, Ryerson University	Toronto	Canada	North America	-79.38097, 43.65910	2014-10-03	Open-source development of 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		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

Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs network?

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 Anne Ghilsa (Germany)
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 establishing a local Lab and joining the "Geo for All" initiative

(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 ,open data and open education in the future.

(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 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 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.

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.

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