The "GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals" webinar recording link at https://youtu.be/Bd8Oe1Z-p3E
Thank you Victoria, Rafael and Charlie.
The presentation from Sergio Y Lara (Uruguay) on gvSIG Batovi is an excellent
example of a successful initiative in Open Principles in Education and helps us
to understand why scalability and costs for scaling is fundamental . Through
their focus on Open Principles in Education they have now provided high quality
spatial education to students in all schools across Uruguay . Thanks to the
Plan Ceibal they also have free laptops for all Primary and Secondary students
in the country so they truly have the opportunity to reach every student with
high quality teaching and learning tools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo
(Video with English translation)
The presentation from Victor Sunday (Unique Mappers Team) shares the work on
youth and women empowerment that they are doing in Africa . Their contributions
to quality education, climate action is inspiring. GeoForAll is working closely
with YouthMappers and other partners worldwide to help provide geoeducation
opportunities for all students.
The presentation from Cameron Green (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
highlighted the importance of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) and the
fundamental link of SDI to all 17 UN SDGs. Many developing countries lack
Spatial Data infrastructures which is key for evaluating and monitoring SDG
progress. He showed GeoNode http://geonode.org an open source Content
Management System for GIS. There are many examples of Geonode implementations
for example the World Food Programhttps://geonode.wfp.org that might be of
wider interest.
I want to thank all speakers for sharing their experiences and ideas.
As our next step, we to want learn from successful initiatives like gvSIG
Batovi, GIS at School etc to scale our teacher training programs for schools to
provide geoeducation and STEM education opportunities to millions of students
globally and welcome ideas. Spatial Education is key for tackling Climate
Change. One of our GeoForAll labs established atthe UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre in
Poland has been doing pioneering work on Environmental Management , Active
Education over many years. Details athttps://www.gridw.pl/en/opensourcegeolab
One of the inspiring work that they are involved is theGIS at School
http://www.edugis.pl/en/images/stories/guide/gis-at-school.pdf
btw it is nearly 25 years (in 1994) since I first came across the amazing
“geo world” by pure chance. I was able to learn GIS thanks to the help from
many kind people who I will always be grateful for their kindness to me. So
it is now my duty to help open the doors of geoeducation and geodigital economy
opportunities to everyone. Details at
https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/geospatial-ig/post/please-share-open-principles-science-and-education-ideas-and-philosophy
I am grateful to everyone working to make geoeducation and digital economy
opportunities available for everyone.
Best wishes,
Suchith
From: GeoForAll on behalf of
Moreno-Sanchez, Rafael
Sent: 13 October 2019 01:41
To: OsGeo, GeoForAll Subject: [Geo4All] Video
recording posted GeoForAll lab webinar "mini-conference" Oct 10,
Hi everyone,
Thank you again to Charlie and Suchith for leadership and motivation to put
this mini-conference together.
Thank you to all the presenters for participating and your great presentations.
The video recording is posted in the GeoForAll YouTube Channel.
https://youtu.be/Bd8Oe1Z-p3E
In the description of the video is that table of contents of the presentations
and the corresponding timeline in the video.
Please pass the word. I will forward to several mailing lists on Monday.
Have a nice weekend.
Rafael
From: Charlie Schweik
Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 6:49 AM
To: OsGeo, GeoForAll
Subject: Reminder! A first GeoForAll lab webinar "mini-conference" tomorrow Oct
10, 1:00-3:00 GMT, on "GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals"
Dear GeoForAll colleagues,
A reminder that a first GeoForAll webinar "mini-conference" will take place
tomorrow!
- Topic: "GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals"
- Date/time: Thursday, October 10th from 1-3:00 pm GMT.
- What time is it for you? Use this link to find out:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20191010T13&p1=tz_gmt
- Participating GeoForAll labs/members and mini-conference program:
- Suchith Anand (Chief Scientist, GODAN) – Introduction
- Victoria Rautenbach (GeoForAll chair) – Welcome to GeoForAll
- Sergio Acosta y Lara (Dirección Nacional de Topografía,Ministerio de
Transporte y Obras Públicas, Uruguay) -Experiences from the 3rd edition of the
course-co
