Dear All,
As 2014 is nearly over, let me take this opportunity to thank each and every
one of you for your support and contributions which helped to build up the "Geo
for All" http://www.geoforall.org/ initiative. It has been amazing to see our
humble initiative grow rapidly and this has been due to the dedication of all
of you and I would like to thank you for your continued contribution.
This week we also approved application from the University of Queensland,
Australia for establishing the latest Open Source Geospatial Lab there. We are
looking forward to working with colleagues there for the establishment of the
new ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS lab there and expand future research and teaching
collaborations. The timing of this is good as is also one year since the 3rd
European Union- Australia Research Infrastructure meeting in Canberra which i
was fortunate to be part of where both Australia and the EU acknowledged the
importance of large collaborative infrastructures in enabling research that
focuses on global scale challenges and opportunities. Details at
http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/pdf/Third%20European%20Australian%20Workshop%20on%20Research%20Infrastructure%20Communique.pdf
My focus for that meeting was on the Sustainable Cities theme where one of the
agreed outcomes of the Sustainable Cities theme was to establish open source
sustainability cities research lab at the University of Melbourne (led by Dr
Chris Pettit) with linked laboratories in key universities in Australia.
In 2015, i suggest that for "Geo for All" we expand this idea to focus on using
the Open Geospatial Labs that we are building in universities worldwide to
expand research by bringing together colleagues from other departments in your
universities for expanding in three key areas where there is Big Data focus in
research and development.
- Urban Data Science
- Transport Science & Applications
- Environment and Climate Science
This will help expand our established research labs and to establish new
research labs in universities worldwide in Urban Science , Transport,
Environment themes building on Open Principles (Open Data, Open Software, Open
standards, Open Access to Research publications etc). I look forward to your
ideas/suggestions for the next phase of our global expansion plans. For new
universities who wish to establish Open Geospatial Labs, details at
http://www.geoforall.org/how_to_join/
Thank you to all of you, we have now put strong foundations for our "Geo for
All" initiative from Australia to Uruguay and i am looking forward to working
with you all in 2015 to rapidly build upon this.
I wish you and your families very happy holidays and Happy New Year 2015.
Best wishes,
Suchith
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