1. Open Principles in GeoEducation
Suchith Anand
EuroGeo 2017, Amsterdam
Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and
teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU
3. alt.ac.uk
Over 12,000 schools
About 6 million students
About 200,000 teachers
Good example of impact of openness in Education
from my state in India
5. How can we all work
together to create global
citizens for the future?
6. ◊GLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: accessGLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: access
to water, sanitation, traffic congestions,to water, sanitation, traffic congestions,
economic sustainability, citizenseconomic sustainability, citizens’ health,’ health,
impact on environment …impact on 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, Mumbai
http://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
7. Why? Data needs to be easily understood by all to
make better informed decisions at all levels
Purpose - Using this layer to compare with health expenditures to see if there's a visual relationship
with the percent of forest area and health care costs. Looking to see if health care costs rise as forest
are percent lowers.
9. ◊GLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: accessGLOBAL URBAN PROBLEMS: access
to water, sanitation, traffic congestions,to water, sanitation, traffic congestions,
economic sustainability, citizenseconomic sustainability, citizens’ health,’ health,
impact on environment …impact on 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, Mumbai
http://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
12. There are many dimensions to “Open”
• Open source software.
• Open data.
• Open standards.
• Open access to research publications.
• Open education resources
But fundamentally GeoForAll is based on Open
Principles
13. An example of the impact of Openness - GODAN
Impact is the positive changes to the lives of people
15. 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
16. How can we all work
together to create global
citizens for the future?
17. Nepal Earthquake 2015 – GeoForAll colleagues globally came
together to help with relief efforts
We are especially grateful for the work and relief efforts done after the terrible earthquakes by our colleagues in OSG
Kathmandu University lead by Dr Shashish Maharjan. Their whole team along with many students and volunteers
were key in helping the recovery efforts. They have been carrying out many activities from piloting of household
18. Nepal Earthquake 2015 – GeoForAll colleagues
globally came together to help with relief efforts
27. How can we all work
together to create global
citizens for the future?
28. 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
29. Why - Social Responsibility
Making 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 Lara
sacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy
Alvaro Anguix
aanguix@gvsig.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo
31. Open software
Open data
Open Educational Resources
Open standard
Providing to an open geospatial ecosystem for education,
research and business
Education + Empowerment = Geo4All
Access to quality education and opportunities is key for getting rid of
extreme poverty and enable broadly shared prosperity for all.
32. Open Geospatial Education &
Research
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
33. “Geo for All” Team
ICA-OSGeo MoU in Sep 2011
Over 100 labs established
worldwide as of today
North America – over 20 labs
Europe – over 40 labs
South America – 9 labs
Africa – 4 labs
Asia – 15 labs
Australia - 2 lab
Will be establishing over 1000 labs in
universities and schools worldwide by
2018
34. Who are we?
Government organisations, academia, industry, startups,
NGOs , teachers, students, …
FOSS4G 2013 @Nottingham
51. Vision 2030
Science should always be open
Geospatial Science should be fully build on Open Principles
Transparency 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 http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263
52. Represents the
individual content
creator on the World
Wide Web
Why- Open Geospatial 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.
53. Thanks to all colleagues in the “Geo for All”
initiative
Let us all join to eradicate extreme poverty and
enable shared prosperity for all
http://www.geoforall.org
54. Why - Social Responsibility
Making 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 Lara
sacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy
Alvaro Anguix
aanguix@gvsig.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo
Editor's Notes
Godan exists to respond to particular challenges and foster innovations to meet them
For the first time in human history, the knowledge to end hunger exists on Earth
Experts tell us that we currently produce enough food on planet Earth to adequately feed the world population. Yet, nearly 800 million people struggle with debilitating hunger and malnutrition in every corner of the globe, one in every nine people, with the majority being women and children. Global populations are set to increase to 9-10 billion by 2050.
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 an unacceptable hunger gap lies within harnessing & opening agriculture and nutrition data