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
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 name | Contact email | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | University of Nottingham | Nottingham | UK | Europe | -1.250296, 52.831497 | Jeremy Morley | ngi at nottingham.ac.uk | |||
| 2. | University of Girona | Girona | Spain | Europe | 2.837305, 41.967426 | 2012-09-10 | Lluís Vicens | info at sigte.udg.edu | ||
| 3. | University of Southampton | Southampton | UK | Europe | -1.396873, 50.936974 | 2013-04-30 | osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk | |||
| 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 | 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 | 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 12. | Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (IGiK) | Warsaw | Poland | Europe | 21.012229, 52.229676 | in process of being established | ||||
| 13. | Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest | Bucharest | Romania | Europe | 26.103889, 44.432500 | in process of being established; new website under development | ||||
| 14. | Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary | Székesfehérvár | Hungary | Europe | 18.418833, 47.188778 | in process of being established | ||||
| 15. | Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences | Stuttgart | Germany | Europe | 9.17370, 48.77996 | 2013-10-14 | in process of being established | |||
| 16. | Federal University of Paraná | Paraná | Brazil | South America | -49.26141, -25.427074 | 2012-05-23 | ||||
| 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 | |||
| 19. | Universidad de la República | Montevideo | Uruguay | South America | -56.176441, -34.902405 | 2013-03-01 | new website under development | |||
| 20.You always have to be careful with this sort of email and ask me for translation :) | 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 | -78.66468, 35.789413 | 2012-10-18 | Helena Mitasova | gis at ncsu.edu | ||
| 23. | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Amherst | USA | North America | -72.524696, 42.393578 | 2012-10-18 | website: coming soon.... | |||
| 24. | University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS | USA | North America | -95.251311, 38.958578 | 2013-08-23 | in process of being established | |||
| 25. | University of California, Davis | Davis | USA | North America | -121.766945, 38.548801 | 2013-02-04 | in process of being established | |||
| 26. | Laboratorio de Software Libre | Zacatecas | Mexico | North America | -102.5791, 22.7608 | 2013-04-05 | in process of being established | |||
| 27. | Kent State University | Kent, Ohio | USA | North America | -81.357886,41.153667 | 2013-08-30 | ||||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||||
| 32. | Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) | Quezon City | Philippines | Asia | 121.062241, 14.64372 | in process of being established | ||||
| 33. | Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIIT Hyderabad | Hyderabad | India | Asia | 78.3503, 17.4454 | 2011-08-22 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 37. | University of Ghana | Accra | Ghana | Africa | -0.191617, 5.650366 | in process of being established | ||||
| 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 | |||
| 40. | CEPT University | Ahmedabad | India | Asia | 72.566004,23.039568 | 2012-07-18 | in process of being established | |||
| 41. | National University of San Juan | San Juan | Argentina | South America | -68.521408, -31.527273 | 2012-06-15 | in process of being established | |||
| 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 | |||
| 45. | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | Barcelona | Spain | Europe | 2.173403, 41.385064 | 2013-09-27 | in process of being established | |||
| 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 | |||
| 48. | Universiti Sains Malaysia | Penang | Malaysia | Asia | 100.484623, 5.263234 | 2013-10-16 | in process of being established | |||
| 49. | Kathmandu University | Dhulikhel | Nepal | Asia | 85.550000, 27.616667 | 2012-12-24 | in process of being established | |||
| 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 |
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
- Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
- Helena Mitasova - North America
- Charlie Schweik - South America
- 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