We would like invite articles from Industry , Universities/Education, Startups, NGOs, Governments on examples of how Open Geospatial Software and Open Data is empowering them and created many new opportunities for "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org/ newsletters.
Even proprietary GIS vendors and their business partners make huge use of and rely heavily on open source for their business[1] . That is true empowerment and we want to get more examples from the wider community for our newsletter * Examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Geospatial Industry * Examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Startups * Examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Universities/Education * Examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for Government organisations * Examples of Open Source Geospatial and Open Data empowering and creating new opportunities for NGOs We are esp. interested to hear from government organisations/regional/local authorities on how Open source GIS software helped the local authorities and various government departments in reducing huge annual licence fee costs for proprietary software and the taxpayers as a whole benifitted from cost efficiencies, reduce the cost of lock-in to suppliers and products. Now imagine the costs for not just one year but in the future 5, 10 , 25 years. The savings will be billions of dollars of taxpayers money globally which can be invested by governments in education, healthcare etc. As more and more government organisations, national, regional and local authorities rapidly move to QGIS and other Open source solutions for enhanced efficiency and lower costs , there is a need for support services and an ecosystem at the local level which is in fact the BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY for SMEs and startups to fill in . There should be a strong ecosystem (universities, local government, SMEs etc) to enable create conditions for many new opportunities [2] to be created in Open Geospatial ecosystem , so that there will be lot of jobs creation as well as innovation opportunities. So examples from Startups in OSGeo ecosystem are very welcome. There is already a great list of service providers of OSGeo ecosystem and this is just the start. So please do send examples of how Open Source Geospatial and Open Data is empowering and creating new opportunities from Geospatial Industry, Startups, Education, NGOs, Government organisations to our chief editor of "Geo for All" newsletter -Dr. Nikos Lambrinos, Dept. of Primary Education Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ( Email - labri...@eled.auth.gr ) Best wishes, Suchith [1] http://www.gogeomatics.ca/magazine/osgeo-presents-geo-for-all-initiative-may-30-ottawa-social.htm [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat [3] http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1 This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
