Hi Sanghee,
Thanks for filling us in with the details of the UN OpenGIS
meeting in Brindisi.
Many thanks to you, Maria and Maxi for your great job
in presenting about OSGeo and Geo4All at the meeting.
Look forward to close collaboration and strengthened
partnership between UNGeo and OSGeo.
Best
Venka
On 2016/03/14 10:47, 신상희 wrote:
Dear All,
As mentioned in this mail, UN OpenGIS Initiative(now renamed UNOGeo)
Technical Workshop was held last week for 5 days at Brindisi, Italia. If
you’re interested and want to know what’s going on there, please see Maxi’s
great report on this here:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/un/2016-March/000014.html
And if I add something to Maxi’s report(since I also attended the UN
workshop there on behalf of Korea), this workshop was not an one time and
sudden event. I was very glad and surprised to see that UN already set the
clear vision to migrate to open source GIS from proprietary ones. And happy
to see that many of their plans are based on OSGeo projects. That’s why UN
officially invited OSGeo there. Last week’s workshop was just a start point
and I feel we’ll see many activities in UN regarding open source GIS in
near future. Thanks again for Maxi and Maria’s great works there.
Kind regards,
신상희
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Shin, Sanghee
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
http://www.gaia3d.com
2016-03-13 20:09 GMT+09:00 Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>:
Dear Colleagues,
You all are invited to join a seminar ( join the live webcast) on *"Geospatial
Information for United Nations"* to be delivered by Kyoung-Soo Eom, Chief
Geospatial Information Section, Department of Field Support, United Nations
at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Thanks to Prof. Maria Brovelli and
colleagues at Politecnico di Milano for organising this.
*Date & Time : 14th March 2016 at 15.30 (Italy time)* . Please check your
local times.
The event will be also available in streaming at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqKblSZUBd0
The UN Geospatial Information Section supports cartographic and geospatial
information needs of the Security Council and the UN Secretariat including
UN field missions, and oversees global GIS programmes at UN Headquarters
and in the UN field missions. It provides fundamental geospatial products
and applications, which can be for brevity summarized as Geographic
Information System (GIS) services, to: Security Council members, decision
makers, political analysts, information managers, planning & operation
teams, humanitarian affairs, economic & social affairs, safety & security
and logisticians with a wide array of geospatial services. It also supports
Member States in boundary making activities upon request. The UN Geospatial
Information Section, together with the Statistics Division, is providing
support to the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information
Management (UN-GGIM), as co-Secretariat.
Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom joined the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping
Operations (DPKO) in January 1999, and he identified the missed
opportunities in using geospatial information and GIS tools in order to
meet the operational needs to support effective decision-making of UN
peacekeeping operations.
In March 2005, Mr. Eom was appointed Chief of UN Geospatial Information
Section (formerly UN Cartographic Section), to which he brought the newly
established and successful GIS programme. In accordance with the Peace
Agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia, the UN Secretary-General designated
Mr. Eom to serve as the Secretary of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary
Commission (EEBC), and he successfully provided all administrative and
technical service support to the EEBC activities in 2006-2008.
In his "Geospatial Information for United Nations" presentation at
Politecnico di Milano Mr. Eom will describe in details as follows:
1. What are the geospatial information and services requirements for
United Nations operations.
2. How geospatial information and services are supported for United
Nations operations.
3. Collaboration and partnership as well as vision, "Geo-enabled UN
operations"
This also builds upon the synergies of the *United Nations Technical
workshop * in Brindisi (Italy) [1] last week to support *United Nations
Open Geospatial (UNOGeo) initiative*. Thanks to Massimiliano Cannata and
Maria Brovelli for thier efforts on this. We will be strongly supporting
and establishing collaboration with the United Nations for this
initiative.Both Maria and Maxi are members of the technical committee of
this new UNOGeo initiative and we congratulate them.
The possible contributions from OSGeo for this initiative are:
- expertise on open source software
- access to the incubation process
- bridge / connection with the private sector
- connection with OSGeo projects
- connection with Geo4All labs
- support in education, research and training
The keen interest in, and commitment to, OSGeo and FOSS4G by United
Nations agencies resulted in the organization of a full day U.N. Special
Session entitled “Open Source GIS in United Nations and Developing
Countries” on September 16 at FOSS4G 2016 [2] .Thanks to Sanghee Shin for
his efforts to make this possible and laying the foundations of our long
term commitement to the United Nations community. I am confident we will
build upon on these excellent developments and will have dedicated session
for the United Nations in all future FOSS4G global events including FOSS4G
2016 Bonn http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html this year to keep expanding
our close collaborations with the United Nations.
So please join the webcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqKblSZUBd0
Best wishes,
Suchith
[1] http://www.unlb.org/
[1] http://2015.foss4g.org/united-nations-special-session/
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