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GeoforAll- Empowering communities for a better world
Suchith AnandUniversity of Nottingham
Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU
Geo for All - Making Geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all
Image Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
Image Credit :NASA/ESA
Starting from Nothing is powerful
June 2010
“Geo for All” started from very humble beginnings
Aim – Build research and teaching infrastructure worldwide
Problem – No initial funding!
Biggest Strength – amazing support from colleagues and students
Open Source Geospatial Lab founding meeting at UoN
Why - Social ResponsibilityMaking resources including software and
data openly available offers an opportunity for knowledge to be shared widely so as to
increase learning opportunities. Example – Collaborating with educational initiatives like gvSIG Batoví
For details contact:Sergio Acosta y [email protected] Alvaro [email protected]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo
GLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: GLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: access to water, sanitation, traffic access to water, sanitation, traffic congestions, economic sustainability, congestions, economic sustainability, citizenscitizens’’ health, impact on health, impact on environment …environment …
Mapping is a critical component to help understand and develop solutions for urban growth problems
Proprietary software tools are very expensive (hence unavailable) for economically poor countries and communities worldwide
Why is Geoeducation important?
Kibera , Kenya
Dharavi, Mumbaihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/56685562@N00/2340042701
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8485582@N07/7365580810
GIS tools play a key role in helping find solutions to global societal challenges
There are many dimensions to “Open”
• Open source software.
• Open data.
• Open standards.
• Open access to research publications.
• Open education resources
But fundamentally it is based on Open Principles
An example of the impact of Openness - GODAN
Impact is the positive changes to the lives of people
HungerPovertyInnovation
www.godan.info
Hunger
• For the first time in human history, the knowledge to end hunger exists on Earth
• 800 million people struggle with debilitating hunger and malnutrition
• We need to find solutions beyond MORE food. Nutritionally sensitive agriculture is essential for global public health and wellbeing
• We are convinced that the solution to closing this unacceptable hunger gap lies within harnessing and opening agriculture and nutrition data
• “location” relevant data plays an important role
Science is NOT a Black Box
Who are we?Government organisations, academia, industry, startups, NGOs , teachers, students, …
FOSS4G 2013 @Nottingham
We are Global community
“Geo for All” Team
ICA-OSGeo MoU in Sep 2011
Over 100 labs established worldwide as of today
North America – over 20 labsEurope – over 40 labsSouth America – 9 labsAfrica – 4 labsAsia – 15 labsAustralia - 2 lab
Will be establishing over 1000 labs in universities worldwide by 2018
It is all about learning and sharing
Open GIS Summer School in Girona
We are Multi disciplinary
We are all passionate about Research and Education
And empowering the next generation
Thanks to Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska and colleagues at UNEP-GRID), Warsaw
Empowering the next generation
gvSIG Batovi in Action
http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/
Big picture
EU Science 2013 @ European Parliament: Global Challenges, Global collaborations
Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process).
The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .
RDA Geospatial IG and Geo4All ThinkTank meeting on 8th June 2016 for starting the process of Open Geospatial Science Vision 2030
Vision 2030Science should always be open
Geospatial Science should be fully build on Open PrinciplesTransparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).
Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science
Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU
We welcome the global community to contribute for Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_geospatial_science_-_vision_2030
Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU
How do we reach here? We need your help
Contribute your ideas to https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_geospatial_science_-_vision_2030
Open softwareOpen data
andOpen standard
Providing to an open geospatial ecosystem for education, research and business
Aim – Establish a new discipline for Open Geospatial Science
Geospatial Standards (for ex. OGC spec.)
Maturity of open source software (for
ex. OSGeo stack)
Open Data
Ability for showing the operation of general laws
is fundamental for scientific research
Unique convergence of many key developments that made Open Geospatial Science possible
“Geo for All”
OpenCitySmart - The Open Platform for Smart Cities
Patrick Hogan , Brandt Melick, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Charles Schweik, Jim Miller, Sven Schade, Chris Pettit, Ant Beck, Doreen Boyd, Darren Robinson, Suchith Anand
GLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: GLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: access to water, sanitation, traffic access to water, sanitation, traffic congestions, economic sustainability, congestions, economic sustainability, citizenscitizens’’ health, impact on health, impact on environment …environment …
Mapping is a critical component to help understand and develop solutions for urban growth problems
Proprietary software tools are very expensive (hence unavailable) for economically poor countries and communities worldwide
Why is OpenCitySmart important?
Kibera , Kenya
Dharavi, Mumbaihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/56685562@N00/2340042701
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8485582@N07/7365580810
GIS tools play a key role in helping find solutions to global societal challenges
Resources at our disposal to enable OpenCitySmart
•NASA Worldwind Platform•What if Platform•Open Source Geospatial Foundation’s software tools
More importantly we got an amazing global “Geo for All” team working on our mission
See preview at https://youtu.be/7NaX9b6F05c
Why Open Geo Science?
helps in empowerment of staff and students
capacity building developing creative and open minds in
students which is critical for building open innovation
contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations.
Why - It will create real impact by positively changing the lives of some of our poorest brothers and sisters
Example – Collaborating with educational initiatives like gvSIG Batoví
For details contact:Sergio Acosta y [email protected] Alvaro [email protected]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo
Thanks to all colleagues in the “Geo for All” initiative
http://www.geoforall.org
Image Credit :NASA/ESA
Synergies of joining minds and communities on a common mission makes the seemingly “impossible” possible
Let us all join to eradicate extreme poverty and enable shared prosperity for all
Geo for All – Empowering people and communities for a better world
