[HOT] OSM GeoWeek 2017 approaches! Register your events or organize one

[Rachel VanNice]

Greetings –

November 12th–18th is Geography Awareness Week. Join us as we prepare to
make the fourth annual OSM Geography Awareness Week (“OSM GeoWeek”) the
best ever. OSM GeoWeek 2017 calls on teachers, students, community groups,
governments, private sector, map lovers, and motivated individuals around
the world to come together to celebrate geography and make maps with
OpenStreetMap, the free and openly editable map of the world.

Many organizations are partnering with HOT for OSM GeoWeek 2017
 including Missing Maps
, the U.S. State Department (MapGive
), USAID (YouthMappers
), National Geographic, and the World Bank’s
GFDRR. OSM GeoWeek presents a great opportunity for HOT community members
to come together and map to reduce disaster risks and address public health
crises. Represent your school, community, or workplace during OSM GeoWeek
anytime between November 12th-18th as we remotely map areas to assist
ongoing humanitarian, development, and public health efforts around the
world.

If you have ever thought it might be fun to get together with co-workers,
friends, students and/or strangers to share your enthusiasm for the power
of maps, and make a difference while doing it, OSM GeoWeek is the perfect
time. Events can be of any size, as small as 10 people and as large as a
150 people. Anyone can do it and we have all the materials to help you host
your mapathon (and to learn how to map) .

Registering an event is easy, just fill out this Google form
,
and your event will be registered on http://osmgeoweek.org/.

We hope you can join us! Please share this invitation with your colleagues
and networks, and students of all ages.


Thank you,

Rachel, , on behalf of the OSM Institutions Group


-- 
Rachel VanNice
Operations Coordinator
E-Mail: rachel.vann...@hotosm.org
Skype: rachel.vannice

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[HOT] OCT 24 Workshop: The Role of Citizen Observatories and Crowdsourcing Community in GEOSS:

[Lea Shanley]

Please share with colleagues! HOT's Mikel Maron will be speaking. We are
not yet sure about live streaming availability, but please check day of
workshop.


*The Role of Citizen Observatories and Crowdsourcing Community in GEOSS: *A
Group on Earth Observations Plenary XIV Side Event


*Date: October 24, 2017*

*Time: 1:00 – 5:30 PM US Eastern Standard Time (EST)*



*Location: Meridian Room D/E*

*Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center*

1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC

Directions provided below.



The growth of citizen science is a global phenomenon. In the United States,
the scientific impacts of citizen science are recognized by 60 federal
agencies and organizations, which coordinate and support hundreds of
citizen science projects. In Europe, the European Commission continues to
fund Citizen Observatories, beginning with the FP7 Programme and extending
through active projects Ground Truth 2.0, LandSense, SCENT, and GROW.
Similar initiatives are emerging in other parts of the world.


GEO can benefit from these initiatives if standards and best practices in
managing (collection, representation, annotation, processing) crowd-sourced
data are promoted. There is a need to explore the linkages of citizen data
to the GEOSS and its common infrastructure (GCI), identify activities
necessary for scaling up (examples are GBIF contributions, Mosquito
Alert-UN...), and investigate methods and tools to integrate
citizens-generated data with authoritative ones.  This should be done in
coordination with other GEO initiatives such as GEOBON. In this meeting, we
will know more about existing citizen science projects and observatories
and will discuss evolving standards and best practices for citizen-observed
data management and ways to integrate citizen-acquired with established
data sources.​



*REGISTER HERE: *https://www.earthobservations.org/geo14.php?t=register


*PLEASE NOTE, DUE TO HEIGHTENED SECURITY, PLEASE ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO ENTER
THE BUILDING. A PHOTO ID IS REQURED FOR ENTRY. *



*LIVE STREAM:*

We hope to be able to provide livestream (pending). *Watch the livestream
event and submit your questions for the panelists here*:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RxYy-IPt28=youtu.be



*Tweet your questions to the panelists using hashtag **#GEOCitSci *

Also follow the GEO Plenary with *#GEOWeek17*



*For more information and archived video (when posted) visit:*
https://swfound.org/events/2017/the-role-of-citizen-observatories-and-
crowdsourcing-community-in-geoss



*Background information: *

GEO Week 2017 Website: http://www.earthobservations.org/geo14.php

GEO Citizen Science Work Program: http://www.earthobservations.org/
activity.php?id=142





*AGENDA*


1:00 PM*Welcoming Remarks*

1:15 PM*Citizen Science Programs and Observatories: Lightning Talks*


Moderator: Dr. Lea Shanley, South Big Data Innovation Hub

Speakers:


   - Maria Krommyda, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
   - Mikel Maron, Humanitarian Open Street Map
   - Laetitia Navarro, GEO BON
   - Joan Masó, Center for Ecological Research and Forestry
   -  Andreas Matheus, Secure Dimensions GmbH

2:15 PM*Tools, Best Practices, and Standards for Utilizing Citizen
Science for GEOSS*

Moderator: Krystal Wilson, Secure World Foundation
Speakers:


   - Anne Bowser, Wilson Center
   - Dixon Butler, Youth Learning as Citizen Environmental Scientists
   - Max Craglia, Joint Research Center
   - Steffen Fritz, International Institute for Applied Science System
   Analysis

3:15 PM*Group Discussion: Prioritization of Citizen Science as GEO
Activity*

Moderator: Joan Masó, Center for Ecological Research and Forestry



5:00 PM*Closing Remarks and Next Steps*

5:30 PMAdjourn


*Workshop Steering Committee:*

   - ​Joan Masó, Center for Ecological Research and Forestry (CREAF)
   - Krystal Wilson, Secure World Foundation (SWF)
   - Lea Shanley, South Big Data Innovation Hub, University of North
   Carolina at Chapel Hill
   - ​Anne Bowser, The Wilson Center



*DIRECTIONS*



*By Metro*: Take the blue, orange, or silver line to the “Federal Triangle”
station.



*From Pennsylvania Avenue at 13th Street*: Walk down Woodrow Wilson Plaza,
the north-south extension of 13th Street beside the Ronald Reagan Building.



*To reach the Center by car*: Underground public parking is available
underneath the Reagan Building at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13 1/2 Street.
Take the elevator up to the ground floor and follow signs to GEO Week 2017.
All vehicle occupants must have photo identification and the vehicle will
be subject to a 100% inspection.



Cheers,

Lea

Lea Shanley, PhD
co-Executive Director, South Big Data Innovation Hub
http://www.linkedin.com/in/LeaShanley
lshan...@renci.org
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