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OSGeo Member
Name:	Suchith Anand
Job Title:	Consultant
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City:	Nottingham
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Country:	United Kingdom
Local Chapter:	OSGeo UK
Email:	suchith_anand@yahoo.com
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Personal Description :	Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He volunteers for GeoForAll with a vision to make geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all and to enable a better future for everyone. He served as the founding chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Geospatial IG of Research Data Alliance. He serves in the Program Board of Group on Earth Observations (GEO). He is reviewer for European and international research council applications, and many leading GIS journals . He serves on the Editorial Board of Journal on Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards , GIS Professional . Suchith is from India and now lives in Nottingham with his wife Sajini and their son Sanjay . They all are cricket fans and love travelling.
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Suchith Anand

Suchith Anand

Consultant

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Suchith Anand is a Charter Member of OSGeo and actively involved in OSGeo Education initiatives. He is the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also working for establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU ...more.

OSGeo Experience

• Established Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation- ICA MoU
• Charter member of OSGeo Foundation
• Active member of OSGeo Edu
• Develop and promote OSGeo Educational initiatives (ELOGeo)
• Founder and Chair of OSGIS conference series
• Invited speaker and presenter at conferences and events
• Program Committee of many geospatial conferences
• Building synergies between OSGeo and ICA
• One of the founding members of the Open Source GIS Summer School initiative and the Geospatial Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data e-learning initiative.

Contact

Email: Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk

Phone (work): 44 (0)115 84 32750

Profile last updated

4th July, 2012