GeoforAll- Empowering communities for a better world

Suchith AnandUniversity of Nottingham

Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU

Geo for All - Making Geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all

Image Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project

Image Credit :NASA/ESA

Starting from Nothing is powerful

June 2010

“Geo for All” started from very humble beginnings

Aim – Build research and teaching infrastructure worldwide

Problem – No initial funding!

Biggest Strength – amazing support from colleagues and students

Open Source Geospatial Lab founding meeting at UoN

Why - Social ResponsibilityMaking resources including software and

data openly available offers an opportunity for knowledge to be shared widely so as to

increase learning opportunities. Example – Collaborating with educational initiatives like gvSIG Batoví

For details contact:Sergio Acosta y Larasacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy Alvaro Anguixaanguix@gvsig.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo

GLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: GLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: access to water, sanitation, traffic access to water, sanitation, traffic congestions, economic sustainability, congestions, economic sustainability, citizenscitizens’’ health, impact on health, impact on environment …environment …

Mapping is a critical component to help understand and develop solutions for urban growth problems

Proprietary software tools are very expensive (hence unavailable) for economically poor countries and communities worldwide

Why is Geoeducation important?

Kibera , Kenya

Dharavi, Mumbaihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/56685562@N00/2340042701

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8485582@N07/7365580810

GIS tools play a key role in helping find solutions to global societal challenges

There are many dimensions to “Open”

• Open source software.

• Open data.

• Open standards.

• Open access to research publications.

• Open education resources

But fundamentally it is based on Open Principles

An example of the impact of Openness - GODAN

Impact is the positive changes to the lives of people

HungerPovertyInnovation

www.godan.info

Hunger

• For the first time in human history, the knowledge to end hunger exists on Earth  

• 800 million people struggle with debilitating hunger and malnutrition

• We need to find solutions beyond MORE food. Nutritionally sensitive agriculture is essential for global public health and wellbeing

• We are convinced that the solution to closing this unacceptable hunger gap lies within harnessing and opening agriculture and nutrition data

• “location” relevant data plays an important role

  

Science is NOT a Black Box

Who are we?Government organisations, academia, industry, startups, NGOs , teachers, students, …

FOSS4G 2013 @Nottingham

We are Global community

“Geo for All” Team

ICA-OSGeo MoU in Sep 2011

Over 100 labs established worldwide as of today

North America – over 20 labsEurope – over 40 labsSouth America – 9 labsAfrica – 4 labsAsia – 15 labsAustralia - 2 lab

Will be establishing over 1000 labs in universities worldwide by 2018

It is all about learning and sharing

Open GIS Summer School in Girona

We are Multi disciplinary

We are all passionate about Research and Education

And empowering the next generation

 Thanks to Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska and colleagues at UNEP-GRID), Warsaw

Empowering the next generation

gvSIG Batovi in Action

http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/

Big picture

EU Science 2013 @ European Parliament: Global Challenges, Global collaborations

Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process).

The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .

RDA Geospatial IG and Geo4All ThinkTank meeting on 8th June 2016 for starting the process of Open Geospatial Science Vision 2030

Vision 2030Science should always be open

Geospatial Science should be fully build on Open PrinciplesTransparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).

Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science

Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU

We welcome the global community to contribute for Vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_geospatial_science_-_vision_2030

Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU

How do we reach here? We need your help

Contribute your ideas to https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_geospatial_science_-_vision_2030

Open softwareOpen data

andOpen standard

Providing to an open geospatial ecosystem for education, research and business

Aim – Establish a new discipline for Open Geospatial Science

Geospatial Standards (for ex. OGC spec.)

Maturity of open source software (for

ex. OSGeo stack)

Open Data

Ability for showing the operation of general laws

is fundamental for scientific research

Unique convergence of many key developments that made Open Geospatial Science possible

“Geo for All”

OpenCitySmart - The Open Platform for Smart Cities

Patrick Hogan , Brandt Melick, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Charles Schweik, Jim Miller, Sven Schade, Chris Pettit, Ant Beck, Doreen Boyd, Darren Robinson, Suchith Anand

GLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: GLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: access to water, sanitation, traffic access to water, sanitation, traffic congestions, economic sustainability, congestions, economic sustainability, citizenscitizens’’ health, impact on health, impact on environment …environment …

Mapping is a critical component to help understand and develop solutions for urban growth problems

Proprietary software tools are very expensive (hence unavailable) for economically poor countries and communities worldwide

Why is OpenCitySmart important?

Kibera , Kenya

Dharavi, Mumbaihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/56685562@N00/2340042701

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8485582@N07/7365580810

GIS tools play a key role in helping find solutions to global societal challenges

Resources at our disposal to enable OpenCitySmart

•NASA Worldwind Platform•What if Platform•Open Source Geospatial Foundation’s software tools

More importantly we got an amazing global “Geo for All” team working on our mission

See preview at https://youtu.be/7NaX9b6F05c

Why Open Geo Science?

helps in empowerment of staff and students

capacity building developing creative and open minds in

students which is critical for building open innovation

contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations.

Why - It will create real impact by positively changing the lives of some of our poorest brothers and sisters

Example – Collaborating with educational initiatives like gvSIG Batoví

For details contact:Sergio Acosta y Larasacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy Alvaro Anguixaanguix@gvsig.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo

Thanks to all colleagues in the “Geo for All” initiative

http://www.geoforall.org

Image Credit :NASA/ESA

Synergies of joining minds and communities on a common mission makes the seemingly “impossible” possible

Let us all join to eradicate extreme poverty and enable shared prosperity for all

Geo for All – Empowering people and communities for a better world