Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral - Guayaquil - Ecuador with Politecnico di Milano and ISPRS WG IV/5 (Distributed and Web-Based Geoinformation Services and Applications)
is organizing in Guayaquil the *First Latin American Conference of Free and Open Source GIS - I Congreso Latinoamericano de Aplicación de Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) de código libre y abierto. * *Background of the event * The awareness about the necessity of integrating, if not basing, the most of environmental and territorial analyses with geography and mapping has been growing at every administrative and governmental level. In the meanwhile the success of application, like for instance Google Earth, demonstrates the dramatic curiosity and active interest of people with respect to the space in which they live. Lowering barriers to contributing, making easier the interaction and the possibility of participation will result in more photos, maps and other pieces of information uploaded and therefore plays an important role in that success. The availability of a richer information (from institutional and/or crowd sourced data) can help decision-makers in their activity. Free and Open Source Tools and Applications are rapidly increasing in number and quality. Many and different actors are involved in such a kind of process: large and small companies, professional practitioners, public agencies, universities, research centers but also simple map lovers. The conference aims at foster interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of the geospatial and free and open source domains. The conference will be organized in a way to promote networking between the participants, to initiate and favour discussions regarding cutting-edge technologies in the field, to exchange research ideas and to promote national and international collaboration. * Themes of the Event* Presentations should cover aspects of the use or development of open source GIS. Some topics of interest: - Case Studies and Application of free and open source GIS - State of Development of free and open source GIS - Migration from proprietary to free and open source solutions: problems, advantages, drawbacks The proposed dates of the event are: *24-25 October 2012.* Other possible co-organizers of the event are the Ecuadorian Secretary for Risk Management and ICA (requests sent, waiting for reply). The Organizer Committee is asking for *OSGeo support* in whichever form it is possible. For more information please contact: *Indira Nolivos Alvarez* Departamento de Sistemas y Control Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral inoli...@fiec.espol.edu.ec *Sergio Flores* Departamento de Sistemas y Control Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral sflo...@fiec.espol.edu.ec *Maria Antonia Brovelli* Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Politecnico di Milano - Campus Como maria.brove...@polimi.it
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