On behalf of "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org , we are pleased
to inform that Region wise and Subject wise Thematic groups are now
established and we welcome you to join us.
Following inputs from the "Geo for All" community we decided to have new
Regional chairs to help us accommodate our expansion plans. Also this
helps us to arrange meetings of the regional research labs coinciding
with the FOSS4G regional conferences now fully established for
accelerating research and teaching collaborations between our labs . For
example FOSS4G-Europe http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ for our European
labs ; FOSS4G NA https://2015.foss4g-na.org for our North American
labs, FOSS4G-Asia http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2014/ for our Asian labs etc.
With the region wise thematic groups established, the chairs of these
are now the contact points for any new labs to be established in that
region to contact and the mailing list becomes the first point of
contact for the new members and all regional members in the region can
use the list for collaborating on regional funding calls, FOSS4G local
conferences etc. This way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets
local/region requirements/needs. The criteria for membership for
ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs are at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria
North America Region
Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA)
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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_North_America
Email: cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu; hmitaso@ncsu.edu; pdavis@delmar.edu
South America Region
Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil)
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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_South_America
Email: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; silvanacamboim@gmail.com
Africa Region
Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and
Bridget Fleming (South Africa)
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Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Africa
Email: bridget@afrispatial.co.za; serenacoetzee@gmail.com;
ranyaalsayed@gmail.com
Asia Region (including Australia)
Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan
(Japan/India)
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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Asia
Email: raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp; Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my
Europe Region
Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Anne Ghilsa (Germany)
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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Europe
Email: maria.brovelli@polimi.it; a.ghisla@gmail.com
Thematics: Subjects/Language
Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic
Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)
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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
Email: cpettit@unimelb.edu.au; patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
Teacher Training & School Education thematic
Theme Leaders - El¿bieta Wo³oszyñska-Wi¶niewska (Poland) and Adrian
Manning (UK)
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Website:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation
Email: j.d.w.m@btinternet.com; ela@gridw.pl
Spanish thematic
Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Antoni Pérez Navarro
(Spain)
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Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish
Email: sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy; aperezn@uoc.edu
We invite all of you who are interested in different regions are welcome
to join the specific mail list to build local collaborations and
directly contact the regional chairs for new applications for
establishing ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Research labs in universities worldwide to
build Open Principles in Geo Education.
--
Dr Suchith Anand