Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to seminar on "Geospatial Information for United Nations" on 14th March 2016 at 15:30 (Italy time)

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

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/14.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

---

Shin, Sanghee

Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company

http://www.gaia3d.com

2016-03-13 20:09 GMT+09:00 Suchith Anand :


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 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to seminar on "Geospatial Information for United Nations" on 14th March 2016 at 15:30 (Italy time)

[신상희]

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/14.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

---

Shin, Sanghee

Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company

http://www.gaia3d.com

2016-03-13 20:09 GMT+09:00 Suchith Anand :

> 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 

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is supporting the Geospatial World Forum - opportunity for OSGeo advocates

[Dirk Frigne]

Dear all,

As OSGeo celebrates his 10th anniversary, and outreach to the external
world is one of our strategic goals for the next 10 years, OSGeo decided
to become supporting organisation for the Geospatial World Forum in
Rotterdam, 2016 May 23-26. We will host an "OSGeo" track on May 24,
2016. As this is an opportunity where the whole GIS industry and the
public sector is coming together from all over the globe to exchange
information, it is a great opportunity for OSGeo to outreach to the
greater public.

Please have a look at the draft agenda and add your name where you may
help. I am looking for advocates that want to promote their project,
their community, why they are involved, and how people interested could
benefit or help out. It is a good moment to celebrate and to show the
advantages of OSGeo software.

[1] is the wiki page with a schedule for an agenda. The idea is to
present OSGeo as an organisation from volunteers to anybody interested
in open software, where OSGeo will present our new vision and mission,
Geo4All, the live-Demo and the Champion OSGeo projects. The template is
copied into the GWF program [2], where GWF is asking to provide pictures
of people presenting to send a photo.

There are 2 workshops: INSPIRE for OSGeo / OSGeo for INSPIRE where we
will discuss how both communities can support each other, and there is a
workshop about the next steps for the European Local Chapter.


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geospatial_World_Forum_2016
[2] http://geospatialworldforum.org/OSGeo-programme.html
[3] http://geospatialworldforum.org/


Dirk

P.S.
I also included the contact persons of the nearby local chapters
(Netherlands, Germany and Belgium) to distribute the message in their
respective local chapters.



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ir. Dirk Frigne
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Invitation to seminar on "Geospatial Information for United Nations" on 14th March 2016 at 15:30 (Italy time)

[Suchith Anand]

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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