Keynote presentation for the FOSS4G-Europe 2017 , Paris

1. Images: NASA

2. Thank you to all our colleagues in “GeoForAll”
initiative
http://www.geoforall.org

3. In the technology world outputs are fast but the results and
impacts for Education and Capacity development are in the
long term (sometimes even generations)
Image acknowledgement: GODAN Success Stories

4. Future is unpredictable
There are many Future(s)!
Future(s) is created by the
decisions made by
everyone everyday
Image acknowledgement: GODAN Success Stories

5. Life experiences provide bigger learning
experiences than any university
Government Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram, India mage acknowledgement: The New Indian Express
Community
Volunteering
Sharing

6. June 2010
Open Source Geospatial Lab founding meeting at UoN
“We did not have any funding that time but we have
amazing people”

7. GeoForAll – Making geospatial education and
opportunities accessible to all
Thanks to Daria Svidzinska for creating the space-time map of
GeoForAll
Same age
as my son

8. Our amazing team who make this
happen

9. ICA- OSGeo MoU
Prof. Georg Gartner (ICA President) and
Arnulf Christl (OSGeo President) shake
hands after signing the MoU at Intergeo
2011 in Germany (Sep 2011)

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GeoForAll happened
because of Serendipity

12. GeoForAll is based on Open Principles in
Science and Education
• Free and Open source software
• Open data
• Open standards
• Open access to research publications
• Open education resources

13. 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

14. Building bridges and
Empowering communities

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Why is Openness Important?
Openness is fundamental in helping achieve SDG 2030
aims

16. Hunger
Poverty
Innovation
www.godan.info

17. How can we
ensure Zero
Hunger for all?

18. http://www.godan.info/documents/godan-success-stories-issue-1
How can we use technological
developments and Open Data
to help the small hold farmers?

19. AgMarknet: Surpassing the middleman (http://agmarknet.gov.in/)

20. Develop an innovative solution
to reduce waste and achieve
ZERO HUNGER
By bringing together teams of students and
researchers to find solutions for local farming in
growing cities, using open agriculture and
nutrition data.
Teams should use:
some aspect of the OpenCitySmart Design
and
 NASA’s open source virtual globe technology,
WebWorldWind as a source of open data.
Details of the open data tools can be accessed
through:
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it
World
Wind

21. An example of a Food Security Application
http://www.trilogis.it/eLocust3D/
The goal of this application is to help FAO
(Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United
Nations) providing support to national locust
operators in Africa and Middle East.
Desert locusts are a huge problem for the
population and due to their ability to change their
behaviours and habits. These locusts are hard to
limit as they form swarms and move rapidly (about
20km/h). Moreover, they can consume (in 1km²
swarm) as much food as 35,000 people eat in a
single day.
Nicola Dorigatti, Nicola Meneghinii
World
Wind

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Education + Empowerment = GeoForAll

23. Science is NOT proprietary!
Transparency of research is fundamental for scientific
advancement (no “black boxes” or proprietary barriers) and
geospatial science should always be open.

24. 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

25. STEM education using Open Principles
Students learning map production using free and open technologies like QGIS
and open data (Photos thanks to Edward and GeoForAll colleagues in Tanzania)

26. We want to create opportunities for high quality science
education and empowerment for all economic backgrounds

27. We will create opportunities for high quality science education
and empowerment for all economic backgrounds
Thanks to Work done by our Sergio Acosta Y
Lara and our GeoForAll colleagues in Uruguay

28. School learners experiencing
geoinformatics at GeoForAll lab
at the University of Pretoria,
August 2016
Thank you to
Victoria
Rautenbach
for making
this possible

29. Wealth Inequalities are increasing
Billions of families are struggling for basic human needs and
basic facilities (food, clean water, sanitation, access to
electricity, education opportunities) hence the global focus
on UN SDGs very important priority

30. We want to ensure that Future Scientists and change makers
can be from here also
Image thanks to Victoria Rautenbach

31. Thanks to Silvana Comboim and colleagues

32. Represents the individual
content creator on the World
Wide Web
Why- Open Principles in Science
and Education?
 helps create quality STEM
education opportunities for all
helps develop 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.

33. Over 12,000 schools
About 6 million students
About 200,000 teachers
https://itschool.gov.in/glance.php
Why Openness in Education Important? Good example of impact
of openness in Education from my state Kerala in India

34. A Small Circle in Asia Contains More Than Half the World's
Population – But How many GI Scientists are from here?
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/small-circle-asia-more-half-worlds-population.htm
For decades high cost proprietary GIS reduced the education and
entrepreneurship opportunities in GIS for the economically poor.
But now Thanks to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and all OSGeo
volunteers , these inequalities for access to geospatial software and learning
opportunities is changing fast. It is the efforts of OSGeo volunteers that
helped make tools like QGIS available free to all schools worldwide
forever.

35. Geospatial Technology –
Why?
Future is shaped by the decisions made by everyone everyday
Thank you to all OSGeo volunteers for your work that has made
possible Geo education opportunities accessible for all
Be our GeoAmbassadors and let us pledge and work for
open principles in science and education to eradicate
extreme poverty and enable shared prosperity for all
Images: NASA