Citizen science - theory, practice & policy workshopMuki Haklay
These slides are from a 3.5h workshop, as part of the Israeli Geographical Association, Jerusalem, 14 Dec 2015. The workshop provided knowledge of the field of citizen science and current trends that influence it; Helped participants to understand the principles and practical aspects of designing a citizen science project; Included a session with hands-on experience of citizen science activity; Learn about additional resources that can be used to design and run citizen science projects; Understand the policy trends that are influencing the field.
Many of the slides are from previous talks with organisation and ordered in a way that they are suitable for the workshop
The role of learning in citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This is a presentation from the citizen science impact event at the Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/opentel/citizen-science-impact-event-at-the-open-university/
Citizen science offer different levels of engagement to participants, which have been captured in typologies of the field (contributory, collaborative, co-created, collegial / crowdsourcing, distributed intelligence, participatory science, extreme citizen science). These typologies do no explicitly examine learning. At the same time, projects and activities striving to fulfil multiple goals (excellent scientific output, satisfying engagement, good recruitment, learning …). Within ythe range of citizen science project, we can consider different aspects of learning that are occurring in them, Projects and use examples from a range of project, and raise some aspects that can help those who are designing co-created projects.
Extreme Citizen Science: Current Development Muki Haklay
Slides from a talk to UCL Institute of Global Prosperity soundbites event - 5th November 2015.
With a growing emphasis on civil society-led change in diverse disciplines, from International Development to Town Planning, there is an increasing demand to understand how institutions might work with the public effectively and fairly.
Extreme Citizen Science is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world.
In this talk, Muki will discuss the work of UCL Extreme Citizen Science group within the wider context of the developments in the field of citizen science.He will cover the work that ExCiteS has already done, currently developing and plans for the future.
https://www.igp.ucl.ac.uk/igp-events-pub/muki-haklay-extreme-citizen-science
V2 the world speaks web rtc-mobile social innovation manifesto by ted ritzer ...Ted Ritzer
The second draft of The World Speaks WebRTC-Mobile Social Innovation Manifesto that has added a Lego Software approach that combines Open Peer open source technology with Privacy by Design Principles that empower the individual with the power of WebRTC while protecting their individual's privacy.
Citizen science - theory, practice & policy workshopMuki Haklay
These slides are from a 3.5h workshop, as part of the Israeli Geographical Association, Jerusalem, 14 Dec 2015. The workshop provided knowledge of the field of citizen science and current trends that influence it; Helped participants to understand the principles and practical aspects of designing a citizen science project; Included a session with hands-on experience of citizen science activity; Learn about additional resources that can be used to design and run citizen science projects; Understand the policy trends that are influencing the field.
Many of the slides are from previous talks with organisation and ordered in a way that they are suitable for the workshop
The role of learning in citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This is a presentation from the citizen science impact event at the Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/opentel/citizen-science-impact-event-at-the-open-university/
Citizen science offer different levels of engagement to participants, which have been captured in typologies of the field (contributory, collaborative, co-created, collegial / crowdsourcing, distributed intelligence, participatory science, extreme citizen science). These typologies do no explicitly examine learning. At the same time, projects and activities striving to fulfil multiple goals (excellent scientific output, satisfying engagement, good recruitment, learning …). Within ythe range of citizen science project, we can consider different aspects of learning that are occurring in them, Projects and use examples from a range of project, and raise some aspects that can help those who are designing co-created projects.
Extreme Citizen Science: Current Development Muki Haklay
Slides from a talk to UCL Institute of Global Prosperity soundbites event - 5th November 2015.
With a growing emphasis on civil society-led change in diverse disciplines, from International Development to Town Planning, there is an increasing demand to understand how institutions might work with the public effectively and fairly.
Extreme Citizen Science is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world.
In this talk, Muki will discuss the work of UCL Extreme Citizen Science group within the wider context of the developments in the field of citizen science.He will cover the work that ExCiteS has already done, currently developing and plans for the future.
https://www.igp.ucl.ac.uk/igp-events-pub/muki-haklay-extreme-citizen-science
V2 the world speaks web rtc-mobile social innovation manifesto by ted ritzer ...Ted Ritzer
The second draft of The World Speaks WebRTC-Mobile Social Innovation Manifesto that has added a Lego Software approach that combines Open Peer open source technology with Privacy by Design Principles that empower the individual with the power of WebRTC while protecting their individual's privacy.
What is Extreme Citizen Science? Volunteerism & Publicly Initiated Scientific...Cindy Regalado
This presentation briefly illustrates the state of citizen science our approach in Extreme Citizen Science. We present two examples under this research group at University College London: Publicly Initiated Scientific Research and the Socio-demographics of Volunteerism
HunchWorks: Combining Human Expertise and Big DataDane Petersen
O'Reilly Strata Conference
New York City
September 23, 2011
Slides from our talk at Strata about U.N. Global Pulse's HunchWorks initiative, a system designed to detect and mitigate emerging global crises before they occur.
Adaptive Path helped Global Pulse work through the messy human challenges of the HunchWorks experience, including establishing trust with the system and fostering a community of experts with complementary skills.
Chris van der Walt (U.N. Global Pulse)
Dane Petersen (Adaptive Path)
Sara Farmer (U.N. Global Pulse)
There are many different technologies available for use in disasters. This page highlights the different technologies and categorizes them by type.
The SlideShare below was originally created in response to a number of presentation requests I have had. I will continue to add new technologies as I come across them! Feel free to send any leads you may have!
risis mapping is a new field of study that uses modern technology to analyze the combination of time, location and content. According to a prominent blog about crisis mapping entitled iRevolution by Patrick Meier, it is where “[s]cholars, practitioners, and communities alike are working together to create, analyze, visualize and use real-time data for humanitarian response and post-conflict reconstruction and development (Meier, “Proposing” 2009).” This combination of theory and application for social benefit gives crisis mapping the opportunity to create substantial change when addressing crises.
Authors:
Tracey P. Lauriault, Programmable City Project, Maynooth University
Peter Mooney, Environmental Protection Agency Ireland and Department of Computer Science Maynooth University
Title:
Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Identifying Policy Opportunities and Challenges Toward Deeper Levels of Public Engagement
Presented:
The Internet, Policy and Politics Conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 25-26, 2014
See the abstract here:
http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/programme-2014/track-c-politics-of-engagement/community/tracey-p-lauriault-peter-mooney
Data Science: History repeated? – The heritage of the Free and Open Source GI...Peter Löwe
Data Science is described as the process of knowledge extraction from large data sets by means of scientific
methods. The discipline draws heavily from techniques and theories from many fields, which are jointly used to
furthermore develop information retrieval on structured or unstructured very large datasets. While the term Data
Science was already coined in 1960, the current perception of this field places is still in the first section of the hype cycle according to Gartner, being well en route from the technology trigger stage to the peak of inflated
expectations.
In our view the future development of Data Science could benefit from the analysis of experiences from
related evolutionary processes. One predecessor is the area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The
intrinsic scope of GIS is the integration and storage of spatial information from often heterogeneous sources, data
analysis, sharing of reconstructed or aggregated results in visual form or via data transfer. GIS is successfully
applied to process and analyse spatially referenced content in a wide and still expanding range of science
areas, spanning from human and social sciences like archeology, politics and architecture to environmental and
geoscientific applications, even including planetology.
This paper presents proven patterns for innovation and organisation derived from the evolution of GIS,
which can be ported to Data Science. Within the GIS landscape, three strategic interacting tiers can be denoted: i) Standardisation, ii) applications based on closed-source software, without the option of access to and analysis of the implemented algorithms, and iii) Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) based on freely accessible program code enabling analysis, education and ,improvement by everyone. This paper focuses on patterns gained from the synthesis of three decades of FOSS development. We identified best-practices which evolved from long term FOSS projects, describe the role of community-driven global umbrella organisations such as OSGeo, as well as the standardization of innovative services. The main driver is the acknowledgement of a meritocratic attitude.
These patterns follow evolutionary processes of establishing and maintaining a web-based democratic culture
spawning new kinds of communication and projects. This culture transcends the established compartmentation and
stratification of science by creating mutual benefits for the participants, irrespective of their respective research
interest and standing. Adopting these best practices will enable
EEO/AGI-Scotland 2015: Citizen Science and GIScience - background and common ...Muki Haklay
These are slides from a talk at Edinburgh EEO/AGI-Scotland seminar. The talk explores how Geographic Information Science (GIScience) can contribute to citizen science, and what citizen science can contribute to GIScience.
The Willing Volunteer – Incorporating Voluntary Data into National DatabasesMuki Haklay
At present few mapping databases contain crowd sourced or voluntary data. Consider how, in the future, this will be a valuable source of data for national geospatial, cadastral and mapping agencies
What is Extreme Citizen Science? Volunteerism & Publicly Initiated Scientific...Cindy Regalado
This presentation briefly illustrates the state of citizen science our approach in Extreme Citizen Science. We present two examples under this research group at University College London: Publicly Initiated Scientific Research and the Socio-demographics of Volunteerism
HunchWorks: Combining Human Expertise and Big DataDane Petersen
O'Reilly Strata Conference
New York City
September 23, 2011
Slides from our talk at Strata about U.N. Global Pulse's HunchWorks initiative, a system designed to detect and mitigate emerging global crises before they occur.
Adaptive Path helped Global Pulse work through the messy human challenges of the HunchWorks experience, including establishing trust with the system and fostering a community of experts with complementary skills.
Chris van der Walt (U.N. Global Pulse)
Dane Petersen (Adaptive Path)
Sara Farmer (U.N. Global Pulse)
There are many different technologies available for use in disasters. This page highlights the different technologies and categorizes them by type.
The SlideShare below was originally created in response to a number of presentation requests I have had. I will continue to add new technologies as I come across them! Feel free to send any leads you may have!
risis mapping is a new field of study that uses modern technology to analyze the combination of time, location and content. According to a prominent blog about crisis mapping entitled iRevolution by Patrick Meier, it is where “[s]cholars, practitioners, and communities alike are working together to create, analyze, visualize and use real-time data for humanitarian response and post-conflict reconstruction and development (Meier, “Proposing” 2009).” This combination of theory and application for social benefit gives crisis mapping the opportunity to create substantial change when addressing crises.
Authors:
Tracey P. Lauriault, Programmable City Project, Maynooth University
Peter Mooney, Environmental Protection Agency Ireland and Department of Computer Science Maynooth University
Title:
Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Identifying Policy Opportunities and Challenges Toward Deeper Levels of Public Engagement
Presented:
The Internet, Policy and Politics Conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 25-26, 2014
See the abstract here:
http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/programme-2014/track-c-politics-of-engagement/community/tracey-p-lauriault-peter-mooney
Data Science: History repeated? – The heritage of the Free and Open Source GI...Peter Löwe
Data Science is described as the process of knowledge extraction from large data sets by means of scientific
methods. The discipline draws heavily from techniques and theories from many fields, which are jointly used to
furthermore develop information retrieval on structured or unstructured very large datasets. While the term Data
Science was already coined in 1960, the current perception of this field places is still in the first section of the hype cycle according to Gartner, being well en route from the technology trigger stage to the peak of inflated
expectations.
In our view the future development of Data Science could benefit from the analysis of experiences from
related evolutionary processes. One predecessor is the area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The
intrinsic scope of GIS is the integration and storage of spatial information from often heterogeneous sources, data
analysis, sharing of reconstructed or aggregated results in visual form or via data transfer. GIS is successfully
applied to process and analyse spatially referenced content in a wide and still expanding range of science
areas, spanning from human and social sciences like archeology, politics and architecture to environmental and
geoscientific applications, even including planetology.
This paper presents proven patterns for innovation and organisation derived from the evolution of GIS,
which can be ported to Data Science. Within the GIS landscape, three strategic interacting tiers can be denoted: i) Standardisation, ii) applications based on closed-source software, without the option of access to and analysis of the implemented algorithms, and iii) Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) based on freely accessible program code enabling analysis, education and ,improvement by everyone. This paper focuses on patterns gained from the synthesis of three decades of FOSS development. We identified best-practices which evolved from long term FOSS projects, describe the role of community-driven global umbrella organisations such as OSGeo, as well as the standardization of innovative services. The main driver is the acknowledgement of a meritocratic attitude.
These patterns follow evolutionary processes of establishing and maintaining a web-based democratic culture
spawning new kinds of communication and projects. This culture transcends the established compartmentation and
stratification of science by creating mutual benefits for the participants, irrespective of their respective research
interest and standing. Adopting these best practices will enable
EEO/AGI-Scotland 2015: Citizen Science and GIScience - background and common ...Muki Haklay
These are slides from a talk at Edinburgh EEO/AGI-Scotland seminar. The talk explores how Geographic Information Science (GIScience) can contribute to citizen science, and what citizen science can contribute to GIScience.
The Willing Volunteer – Incorporating Voluntary Data into National DatabasesMuki Haklay
At present few mapping databases contain crowd sourced or voluntary data. Consider how, in the future, this will be a valuable source of data for national geospatial, cadastral and mapping agencies
Extreme Citizen Science: the socio-political potential of citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Slides from a talk at the International Congress for Conservation Biology / European Congress for Conservation Biology 2015 (Montpellier 2-6 August). The talk positioned citizen science within the wider context of production and use of environmental information, and emphasised the need to extend citizen science to a wider audience. It also demonstrated how technology can be used within a careful participatory process.
The 2018 Annual Report details exploratory research conducted by the Pulse Labs and presents solutions that were mainstreamed with partners.
It summarized the adoption of the first UN Principles for Personal Data Protection and Privacy, and showcases Global Pulse's contributions to develop standards and national strategies for the ethical and privacy protective use of big data and artificial intelligence.
Finally, the report highlights Global Pulse's engagement with the data innovation ecosystem through capacity building, collaborative research, and responsible data partnerships.
Hacktivism: making use of earth observations for a social purposeWeb2Learn
Hacktivism as a form of digital action is the topic of this presentation by Stefania Oikonomou and Katerina Zourou, Web2Learn. We present two forthcoming hackathon Challenges, by using earth observations for humanitarian aid.
The video recording is available here https://vimeo.com/717446854
Summary of social media techniques and applications that can be used to improve the public involvement process in urban and transport planning. Including reporting applications, serious games, collaboration tools, educational applications and supporting tools.
The role of learning in community science and citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This are slides from the talk on 12 Oct, Joint workshop of the Teaching and Learning and Citizen Science Special Interest Groups of the British Ecological Society, which was held on 12th October 2018 at the University of Reading. The talk explores links between learning and citizen science - contributory and collegial in particular. This is an improved version of the Citizen Inquiry slides
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* Then the new “OSGeo Community” program is used to explore how these principles are applied in practice.
* Finally we will unpack how each principles is realized in the OSGeo incubation program, using examples of “OSGeo Projects” to explore different ways of achieving success.
We invite project teams interested in succeeding with open source to attend this talk (and list your project on the OSGeo project directory after the presentation).
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Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
The increased availability of biomedical data, particularly in the public domain, offers the opportunity to better understand human health and to develop effective therapeutics for a wide range of unmet medical needs. However, data scientists remain stymied by the fact that data remain hard to find and to productively reuse because data and their metadata i) are wholly inaccessible, ii) are in non-standard or incompatible representations, iii) do not conform to community standards, and iv) have unclear or highly restricted terms and conditions that preclude legitimate reuse. These limitations require a rethink on data can be made machine and AI-ready - the key motivation behind the FAIR Guiding Principles. Concurrently, while recent efforts have explored the use of deep learning to fuse disparate data into predictive models for a wide range of biomedical applications, these models often fail even when the correct answer is already known, and fail to explain individual predictions in terms that data scientists can appreciate. These limitations suggest that new methods to produce practical artificial intelligence are still needed.
In this talk, I will discuss our work in (1) building an integrative knowledge infrastructure to prepare FAIR and "AI-ready" data and services along with (2) neurosymbolic AI methods to improve the quality of predictions and to generate plausible explanations. Attention is given to standards, platforms, and methods to wrangle knowledge into simple, but effective semantic and latent representations, and to make these available into standards-compliant and discoverable interfaces that can be used in model building, validation, and explanation. Our work, and those of others in the field, creates a baseline for building trustworthy and easy to deploy AI models in biomedicine.
Bio
Dr. Michel Dumontier is the Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, founder and executive director of the Institute of Data Science, and co-founder of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles. His research explores socio-technological approaches for responsible discovery science, which includes collaborative multi-modal knowledge graphs, privacy-preserving distributed data mining, and AI methods for drug discovery and personalized medicine. His work is supported through the Dutch National Research Agenda, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Horizon Europe, the European Open Science Cloud, the US National Institutes of Health, and a Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal Data Science and is internationally recognized for his contributions in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and semantic technologies including ontologies and linked data.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
Cancer cell metabolism: special Reference to Lactate PathwayAADYARAJPANDEY1
Normal Cell Metabolism:
Cellular respiration describes the series of steps that cells use to break down sugar and other chemicals to get the energy we need to function.
Energy is stored in the bonds of glucose and when glucose is broken down, much of that energy is released.
Cell utilize energy in the form of ATP.
The first step of respiration is called glycolysis. In a series of steps, glycolysis breaks glucose into two smaller molecules - a chemical called pyruvate. A small amount of ATP is formed during this process.
Most healthy cells continue the breakdown in a second process, called the Kreb's cycle. The Kreb's cycle allows cells to “burn” the pyruvates made in glycolysis to get more ATP.
The last step in the breakdown of glucose is called oxidative phosphorylation (Ox-Phos).
It takes place in specialized cell structures called mitochondria. This process produces a large amount of ATP. Importantly, cells need oxygen to complete oxidative phosphorylation.
If a cell completes only glycolysis, only 2 molecules of ATP are made per glucose. However, if the cell completes the entire respiration process (glycolysis - Kreb's - oxidative phosphorylation), about 36 molecules of ATP are created, giving it much more energy to use.
IN CANCER CELL:
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
introduction to WARBERG PHENOMENA:
WARBURG EFFECT Usually, cancer cells are highly glycolytic (glucose addiction) and take up more glucose than do normal cells from outside.
Otto Heinrich Warburg (; 8 October 1883 – 1 August 1970) In 1931 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his "discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.
WARNBURG EFFECT : cancer cells under aerobic (well-oxygenated) conditions to metabolize glucose to lactate (aerobic glycolysis) is known as the Warburg effect. Warburg made the observation that tumor slices consume glucose and secrete lactate at a higher rate than normal tissues.
Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
sources in the solar corona and is highly structured. It is often described
as high-speed, relatively homogeneous, plasma streams from coronal
holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
is refected in the in situ measurements, which show the transition from fast
to highly Alfvénic then to slow solar wind that is disrupted by the arrival of
a coronal mass ejection. Our results describe solar wind variability at 0.5 au
but are applicable to near-Earth observatories.
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
Open Data and Open Software Geospatial Applications
1. Open Data and Open Software Geospatial
Applications
Maria Antonia Brovelli
Politecnico di Milano - GEOLab
2. GEOlab at Politecnico di Milano
GEOlab is a multidisciplinary research laboratory whose focus
is on the collection, modelling, analysis and representation of
Earth observations
http://geolab.como.polimi.it/
4. Geoinformatics Engineering
First Italian Master of
Science in Geoinformatics
Engineering
two years international
master course taught in
English for Italian and
foreign students.
It Combines expertizes of
Computer Science,
Environmental Engineering
and Geomatics
http://www.geoinformatics.polimi.it
5. ✔ Open Data
✔ Citizen Science/Geocrowdsourcing
✔ Open Software Geospatial Applications
✔ OSGeo
Outline
6. Openness is the movement that promotes the spreading of
information as open. It was introduced by Perritt (1997), who
stated "freedom of information issues are centrally important in
countries around the world, and the Internet's World Wide Web
offers the potential to provide freedom of information at low cost".
The doctrine of openness focuses on the improvement of
government’s efficiency and effectiveness, enhances the
economic growth and guarantees an overall transparency
(Davies 2013).
Europe: https://www.europeandataportal.eu/ (Open Government
metadata from public data portals of European countries)
Italy: http://www.dati.gov.it
Open Data
7. A global measure of how governments are publishing and
using open data for accountability, innovation and social
impact.
9. The relevance of open geodata is
underlined by some reports of the
European community, which analysed
the datasets available in the EU Open
Data portal (https://data.europa.eu).
Carrara, et al. (2015) declared that
geospatial datasets have the highest
commercial value of re-use between
all the thirteen identified categories
Koski (2011) demonstrated a
business growth of 15% in
countries where geodata are open
• Authoritative Open Geodata
• Open Data created by citizens
(Citizen Science)
Open Geodata
10. ✔ Perritt, Henry H. Jr. “Open government.” Government Information Quarterly,
1997: 14(4):397-406.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X97900356)
✔ Davies, Tim. “Open data barometer: 2013 global report.” World Wide Web
Foundation and Open Data Institute, 2013 (http://opendatabarometer.org/ )
✔ Carrara, Wendy, Wae San Chan, Sander Fischer, and Eva van Steenbergen.
Creating value through open data: Study on the impactof re-use of public
data resources. European commission, 2015.
(https://www.europeandataportal.eu/sites/default/files/edp_creating_value_th
rough_open_data_0.pdf )
✔ Koski, Heli. “Does marginal cost pricing of public sector information spur firm
growth.” The Research Institute of Finnish Economy, Discussion Paper,
2011: 1260. (https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dp1260.pdf )
References
14. ✔ OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the most popular project of
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Born in 2004 for
streets, then evolved into the largest, most diverse, most
complete & most up-to-date geospatial database of the world.
✔ increasing number of contributors (currently over 3M)
✔ database available under an open license (ODbL)
✔ increasing interest from the academic community
OpenStreetMap
15. Crowdsourcing Enabling Factors/1
✔ Geolocated sensors and handheld sensors: GPS,
WiFi or Bluetooth receivers, cameras,
microphones,, activity trackers, sensor for body
temperature, heart rate, brain activity, muscle motion
and other critical data
16. Crowdsourcing Enabling Factors/2
✔ Geolocated sensors and handheld sensors: GPS,
WiFi or Bluetooth receivers, cameras,
microphones,, activity trackers, sensor for body
temperature, heart rate, brain activity, muscle motion
and other critical data
✔ Web2.0 technologies (Tim O'Reilly & Dale
Dougherty 2004)
17. Crowdsourcing Enabling Factors/3
Pierre Levy, 1994,
L’Intelligence collective.
Pour une anthropologie
du cyberespace, La
Découverte, Paris.
✔ Geolocated sensors and handheld sensors: GPS,
WiFi or Bluetooth receivers, cameras,
microphones,, activity trackers, sensor for body
temperature, heart rate, brain activity, muscle motion
and other critical data
✔ Web2.0 technologies (Tim O'Reilly & Dale
Dougherty 2004)
✔ Open access/collaborative and sharing approach to
information resources: Collective Intelligence (Pierre
Levy 1994)
✔ Sharing of skills, goods and services driven by the
increasing sense of urgency of resource depletion
18. Research Networks: ENERGIC (2012-2016)
http://www.ubiquitypress.co
m/site/books/10.5334/bax/
http://vgibox.eu/
19. 1. Introduction
2. Sources of VGI for Mapping
3. Review of OSM Data
4. Visualization of OSM Data
5. Motivating and Encouraging
Participation
6. Privacy, Legal Issues and Ethics
7. VGI Data Quality
8. Evolution of OSM Data from a Quality
Point of View
9. Visualization and Communication of
VGI Quality
10. Best Practies for Data Collection
11. Best Practices for Storage and
Dissemination
12. SDIs and INSPIRE
13. Case Studies of NMA Experiences
with VGI
14. Urban Planning and VGI
15. European Policies in the Field of
Citizen Science and Citizens’
Observatories
16. The Future of VGI
Research Networks: Mapping and the Citizen
Sensor (2012-2016)
http://www.citizensensor-cost.eu/
http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/14814/1/mapping-
and-the-citizen-sensor.pdf
20. Research Networks: Citizen Science to promote
creativity, scientific literacy, and innovation
throughout Europe (2016-2020)
https://www.cs-eu.net/
1. Ensure scientific quality of
Citizen Science
2. Develop synergies with
education
3. Improve society-science-policy
interface
4. Enhance the role of CS for civil
society
5. Improve data standardization
and interoperability
6. Overarching - Cross-WG-
Synthesis and overarching
measures
21. Citizen Science Projects
✔ A laundry list of projects available here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citizen_science_projects.
✔ Other sources:
➔ Scistarter (https://scistarter.com/ )
➔ Citizen Science Alliance (https://www.citizensciencealliance.org/)
➔ VGI Knowledge Portal (http://vgibox.eu/repository/index.php/Main_Page).
22. Definitions and classifications/1
✔Citizen science: set of practices in which citizens participate in
data collection, analysis and dissemination of a scientific project
(Cohn 2008)
✔Classification (Haklay 2013)
➔ 'classic' citizen science: amateurs engaged in traditional scientific
activities
➔ community science: measurements and analysis carried out by
amateurs in order to set action plans to deal with environmental
problems
➔ citizen cyberscience: use of computers, GPS receivers and mobile
phones
✗ volunteered computing: citizens download data, run analyses on their own
computers and send back data to the server
✗ volunteered thinking: citizens perform classification works
✗ participatory sensing: applications centered on mobile phones capabilities
23. ✔ Crowdsourced geographic information any data
contributed by the crowd with a geographical reference (they
could potentially be mapped)
➔ The geographic reference can be explicit or implicit (gazetteer
services, like GeoNames or Wikimapia).
✔ Data can be actively contributed (Volunteer Geographic
Information) or passively (pay attention because not all data
contributed by citizens are open!)
✔ Data can be distinguished in:
➔ Framework data (those previously collected by NMAs:
topographic databases, transportation networks, building
footprints,etc)
➔ No Framework data (biodiversity, air quality, etc)
Definitions and classifications/2
25. Example
●http://www.internetlivestats.com/
● 9,890 Tweets sent in 1 second
● 2,528 Instagram photos uploaded in 1 second
● 2,153 Tumblr posts in 1 second
● 1,843 Skype calls in 1 second
● 29,290 GB of Internet traffic in 1 second
● 50,232 Google searches in 1 second
● 106,299 YouTube videos viewed in 1 second
●2,420,172 Emails sent in 1 second
26. Open Questions: Eliciting Participation
✔ Providing something back as a motivator. This “something” has
to be perceived as of greater value than the sustained effort.
➔ Personal satisfaction make it as simple as possible to contribute
➔ Fun gaming
➔ Reputation show immediately and to the whole community the
individual contributions
➔ Monetary return awards
➔ Gaining new knowledge
✔ Recruitment: it depends on the target audience.
➔ A launch event or side event at existing conferences, workshops and
festivals
➔ Parties, like mapping parties or mapathons (armchair mapping
parties)
➔ Schools and education
27.
28. Mapathons and Humanitarian Mapathons
A Mapathon is a coordinated mapping event held generally INDOOR.
Step 1
Remote volunteers
trace satellite imagery
into OpenStreetMap
Step 2
Community volunteers
add local detail such as
neighborhoods, street
names and evacuation
centers
Step 3
Humanitarian
organisations use
mapped information to
plan risk reduction and
disaster activities that
save lives.
29.
30. YouthMappers
The motto of YouthMappers: WE DON'T JUST BUILD MAPS.
WE BUILD MAPPERS.
Capitalizing on web-based open geospatial technologies, the
mission is to cultivate a generation of young leaders to create
resilient communities and to define their world by mapping it.
72 chapters in 23
countries!!!
31. GeoChicas (GeoGirls from Latin America)
• OSM Latin American Women community Geochicas
works towards closing the gender gap within the OSM
community through different projects focused on the
understanding of the role, participation and
representation of women in OpenStreetMap.
• The Geochicas working group states that the data
gathered by the OSM community is male oriented and
biased given the fact that only 3% of OpenStreetMap
contributors is perceived as women and this has a
direct impact on the information and points of interest
that are mapped and how the map, the community
activities are conducted
32. More than 200 kids mapping buildings in the northernmost part of
Swaziland in a project for malaria elimination (task #1577)
Minimapathons
36. Crowdsourcing in National Mapping 2017
An International Workshop
Held in Leuven, Belgium April 3rd and 4th 2017
With NMCAs, Geomatics Industry, academic research,
software developers, citizens involved in geographic
crowdsourcing and VGI, leaders or managers of
crowdsourcing or VGI projects
http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney/eurosdr2017/
37. ✔ It is an open question.
✔ The key ways to respect ethics in data-based research
include:
➔ involving participants throughout the research process;
➔ avoiding collecting information that should remain private, notifying
participants of their inclusion and providing them with options to
correct or delete personal information
➔ using public channels to disseminate research such as Open Data.
Open Questions: Ethical Issues
38. ✔ Private data is any data or
information that can be linked to
an individual contributor who
created, collected or edited that
data.
✔ Many citizens (even when active
contributors) are not aware
about the possible downstream
future usages of their content.
✔ We are constantly tracked by the devices that we carry around with
us. Is location information, in itself, a private data or can it be linked
to individuals? That depends on the location accuracy.
✔ How to protect not only the privacy of the volunteer contributing
citizen but also the privacy and security of the subjects (human and
non-human) of the contribution?
Graffiti in Shoreditch, London – Zabou (Wikimedia Commons)
Open Questions: Privacy/1
39. To avoid compromising privacy and security, there is an urgent
need for privacy-friendly applications and protocols.
Technological approaches
✔ Blurring or fuzzing;
✔ Anonymizing data and selectively revealing information
according to citizen preference;
✔ Privacy-preserving data mining techniques:
➔ appropriate levels of anonymity , to avoid the undesired side effects
on privacy, by means of controlled transformation of data and/or
patterns
➔ but with limited distortion to preserve the possibility of discovering
useful patterns and trends.
Open Questions: Privacy/2
40. • Share alike licenses that require the derived datasets to be
released with the same license; the most famous one in
geographical information is the Open Database License (ODbL)
used by OpenStreetMap.
Open Questions: Property/1
41. Survey report: data management in Citizen
Science projects – JRC (Sven Schade and
Chrysi Tsinaraki, 2016)
public domain, i.e. completely free from
any restriction of intellectual property;
with attribution, i.e. giving credit to the
original creator;
as share-alike, i.e. licensing derivatives
under identical terms;
non-commercial, i.e. allowing any re-use
that is not of a commercial nature;
no derivatives, i.e. preventing any way of
changing the original source or building
upon it.
http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.e
u/repository/handle/JRC101077
Open Questions: Property/2
42. ✔ The question of intellectual property is strictly related to the
responsability.
✔ Who is responsible for the correctness and reliability of data?
✔ Many citizens are not fully aware of the additional intelligence
that can be elicited to they content by the powerful
combinations of cloud computing and data mashuping and
processing technologies available today.
➔ From the position of the volunteer, their legal role and their
contribution may not always be clearly defined and this can lead to
potentially exposing them to legal problems.
➔ On the other hand, if a data provider or data portal only facilitates
the transfer or access to VGI data, then who carries the legal
responsibilities related to consequences of future use of these
data?
Open Questions: Responsability
44. Open Questions: Visualisation/2
Received SMS texts
from Wednesday, December 25, 2013
to Tuesday, December 31, 2013
for all Milano grid cells
Received Calls (6 days)
Color: # SMS
X,Y: lat,long
Z: day of the week
45. ✔ ISO Principles and Guidelines.
✔ Reference Datasets.
✔ Fundamental Assumption: authoritative data are of higher
quality than crowdsourced (is it true??)
✔ ISO Quality Elements:
➔ Completeness
➔ Logical Consistency
➔ Thematic Accuracy
➔ Positional Accuracy
➔ Temporal Accuracy
➔ Usability
Open Questions: Quality/1
47. City #
homologous
pairs
m(d)
before
(m)
RMS(d)
before
(m)
m(d)
after
(m)
RMS(d)
before
(m)
Milan 141251 2,33 2,42 0,54 0,24
Berlin 247523 1,28 1,68 0,02 0,00
S. Francisco 766565 0,5 0,76 0,20 0,11
Open Questions: Quality/3
Positional Accuracy: mean and RMS of the distance between
homologous pairs of OSM and the Authoritative Maps before
and after applying an affine transformation (building
footprints)
Map Assessment
and Warping
48. Open Questions: Standards
OGC Citizen Science DWG will address the citizen science
relevant aspects of interoperability:
✔ Hardware communication (standards used by sensors
communicate e.g to a mobile phone);
✔ Data acquisition (how devices send data to repositories);
✔ Data storage and dissemination (how repositories make data
discoverable and available);
✔ Data curation and preservation (how the data is maintained in
particular in the long term when the actual data campaign is
finished).
✔ http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/CitizenScience
DWG/WebHome
49. ✔ (Geo) crowdsourcing is relatively new but it is a high-pace
evolving approach to science and research.
✔ Many applications have been exiting the scientific field and are
becoming of high interest in the business world.
✔ Despite the (many) projects, it is still a research in progress in
various fields, from the legal and ethical point of view to the
more technical questions.
✔ Being highly related to sensors (IoT), connectivity (the Cloud),
volume, variety, velocity and veracity (Big Data) we are just at
the very beginning and we expect a great evolution in next
years.
Conclusions
50. ✔ FOSS4G
✔ OSGeo
✔ OSGeo Live
✔ Desktop GIS
✔ Browser facing GIS
✔ Web Services
✔ Data Stores
✔ Navigation and Maps
✔ Spatial Tools
✔ Geospatial Libraries
✔ UN Open GIS
✔ GeoForAll
Open Software
51. FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications) are
software that provides the user the freedom to run the program for any
purpose, access the source code to study how it works and change it,
redistribute copies, and redistribute copies of modified versions of the
software (GNU Project 1996).
The software must comply with the 10 criteria listed in the Open Source
Initiative:
FOSS4G
52. ✔ There is at least one mature sophisticated FOSS4G for every geo-
technology area and geospatial information need and application.
✔ Emerging technologies such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and
Structure from Motion are exceptions where the FOSS4G options do not
have yet the maturity or robustness for routine deployment
✔ However, several efforts exist such as
✔ OpenDroneMap http://opendronemap.github.io/odm
✔ MicMac http://www.micmac.ign.fr
✔ Currently there are over 350 FOSS4G projects listed in FreeGIS
http://freegis.org and Open Source GIS http://opensourcegis.org.
✔ Some of these projects have a history that dates back to the early 1980s
(e.g. GRASS GIS) while others are more recent and yet have a wide and
solid user base (e.g. Geoserver) .
FOSS4G and Software Maturity
54. ✔ In 2006 the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo),
was started. (www.osgeo.org )
✔ OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to
support and promote the collaborative development of open
geospatial technologies and data.
✔ The foundation was formed to provide financial, organizational
and legal support to the broader open source geospatial
community.
✔ It serves as an independent legal entity to which community
members can contribute code, funding and other resources,
secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be
maintained for public benefit.
OSGeo
56. OSGeo Live
OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or
Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide
variety of open source geospatial software without installing
anything.
OSGeo-Live 11.0 released
(on 2017-08-09)
67. UN Open GIS
To identify and develop open source GIS software (Spatial Data
Infrastructure) that meets the requirements of UN operations,
taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners.
Architecture based on Open Source GIS; new products under
development
GitHub Geo-Analysis
https://github.com/mapplus/spatial_stat
istics_for_geotools_udig
Geo-Analysis functions are available
to use via WPS and uDig.
68. ✔ Global network of academic research and education
laboratories and government/industry partners
✔ Mission: Making geospatial education and opportunities
accessible to all
✔ Goals:
✔ Create research and teaching opportunities in open geospatial
science
✔ Build global open access teaching and research infrastructure
✔ Establish collaborations between academia, government and
industry around open geospatial science and education
GeoForAll
69. 69
Founded in 2011: MoU between OSGeo and the International
Cartographic Association (ICA)
Georg Gartner and Arnulf Christl, renewal in
2015 with Jeff McKenna
How it started
70. 70
Georg Gartner, Jeff McKenna and Chen Jun, 2014
2014: MoU between OSGeo and the Internationational Society of
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
One step forward
71. 71
University Consortium for GIScience (UCGIS) signed in 2016
Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE)
signed in 2017
International Geographical Union (IGU), signed in September 2017
More MoUs
74. 74
✔ open access educational material based on free and
open source geospatial software and data
✔ free and open source curricula, courses, workshops
OSGeo Educational Content Inventory
✔ Teaching areas for some labs are listed on wiki - add
yours
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_
areas
✔ open source GIS certificate U Colorado Denver
✔ GeoAcademy, open access on-line courses
fossgeo.org: 10000+ learners enrolled in 4 years
Education
75. Research
✔ Urban Science - City Analytics: Chris Petit, Patric Hogan
✔ AgriGIS: Didier Leubovici, Nobusuke Iwasaki
✔ GeoCrowd - VGI, Crowd Sourcing and Citizen Science: M.
A. Brovelli, P. Mooney
✔ K-12 education, collaboration with mapstory.org
76. Geo4all Webinars YouTube Channel
Thanks to Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado
Denver FOSS4G Lab
Interested to present?
Contact Rafael.Moreno@ucdenver.edu
Webinars
77. 77
Monthly Newsletter with updates
about the Community: Lab of the
Month, GeoAmbassador of the
Month, highlights of activities, events,
conferences, webinars, courses,
workshops, funding, scholarships,
exchange programs
Thanks to the Editors:
– Nikos Lambrinos (Chief Editor)
– Rizwan Bukbul, Pavel Kikin,
Alexey Kolesnikov, Ranya
Elsayed, Seraphim Alvanides,
Antoni Perez Navaro, Emma
Strong, Sergio Acosta y Lara,
Codrina Ilie, Nikos Voudrislis
(editorial team for regions in
the world)
Newsletter
78. ✔ The Open Source Geospatial Community is veru active
✔ There is at least one mature sophisticated FOSS4G for every
geo-technology area and geospatial information need and
application.
✔ OSGeo projects require not only the openess of the code but
also the existence of a Community of Developers, Users and
Educators behind every package. This is the key point for
ensuring sustainability to the projects themselves.
✔ OSGeo community is inclusive and we need to have more
contacts and active members also in Asia. If China is
interested in collaboration, your great contribution (as
developers, users and educators) will be more that
appreciated!
Conclusions
79. Thanks for your attention!
Questions?
For contacts:
maria.brovelli@polimi.it
geomobile.como.polimi.it