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From:       Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand () nottingham ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2016-02-16 20:17:01
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Our thanks to Professor Silvana Comboim  (The Federal University of Paraná, Brazil) \
and chair of the ICA Commission on Open source Geotechnologies and Mike Finn (United \
States Geological Survey, USA) and cochair of the ICA Commission on Open source \
Geotechnologies for leading this excellent Geo4All Cartographic Challenge as part of \
the International Map Year to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal \
on Reducing inequality within and among countries. I think this is a great \
opportunity to highlight the importance of working together on the bigger aim to \
empower and provide quality education opportunities for our bottom billions brothers \
and sisters worldwide (who are too poor that they dont even have a voice).

Digital technologies are a big enabler for providing Quality education opportunities \
for everyone. The costs of hardware is coming down (and will keep coming down), \
internet access is increasing even in poor countries (and will keep increasing) but \
the biggest artificial barrier is the high cost of properitary software. So by having \
free and open software will enable billions of our brothers and sisters globally to \
also get opportunities for getting quality education. I have seen this happening in \
poor schools in my own state Kerala in India,  where thanks to a pioneering \
initiative called IT@Schools which is also the world's  largest simultaneous \
deployment of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) based ICT education providing \
opportunities for over 12,000 schools, benifitting 6 million students and 200,000 \
teachers in the state.  Details at https://www.itschool.gov.in/glance.php   The \
scalability of this initiative has been amazing and this would not have happened if \
we had to depend of properitery vendors.

There are lot of examples around the world that shows the power of open principles in \
education. For example, our colleagues in Uruguay (Sergio Acosta y Lara and others) \
are doing amazing work through gvSIG Batovi initiative providing digital education \
opportunities to all students in government schools across the country through the \
wider CEIBAL initiative. See details at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo   \
(video with English translation).

Education and empowerment  are key  for getting rid of extreme poverty and help \
create digital economy opportunities also for  billions of our economically poor \
brothers and sisters across our planet and we cannot allow creating artificial \
digital barriers through high costs properitary licences to keep continue denying \
them their rightful opportunities for a better future for thier children. Access to \
quality education opportunities is everyone's birthright.

Education and empowerment of students are also key  for developing creative and open \
minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to \
building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future \
generations. So let us all work together to enable open principles in education to \
help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and \
opportunities for everyone.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: ica-osgeo-labs [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Silvana \
                Camboim [silvanacamboim@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 5:29 PM
To: ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo4All Cartographic Challenge – How Openness can help to \
reduce inequality

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This year is International Map Year [1], a worldwide celebration of maps and their \
unique role in our world. It's organized by the International Cartographic \
Association (ICA) and supported by the United Nations (UN).

To celebrate this year, ICA Commissions are preparing a series of activities to \
demonstrate the ability of Cartography helping to solve global issues, accordingly to \
the UN Sustainable Development Goals [2]

The result of this will be a poster exposition and an Atlas published by ICA. Each \
goal (there are 17) will have one poster. The Open Source Geotechnologies Commission \
got the Goal number 10 ("Reduce inequality within and among countries"). Under this \
goal, there are 7 targets detailed in page 21 of this document [3].

UN Sustainable Development Goal 10 –  Reduce inequality within and among countries

10.1  By  2030,  progressively  achieve  and  sustain  income  growth  of  the  \
bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average 10.2  \
By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of  all, \
irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic \
or other status 10.3  Ensure  equal  opportunity  and  reduce  inequalities  of  \
outcome,  including  by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and \
promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard 10.4  Adopt  \
policies,  especially  fiscal,  wage  and  social  protection  policies,  and \
progressively achieve greater equality 10.5  Improve  the  regulation  and  \
monitoring  of  global  financial  markets  and institutions and strengthen the \
implementation of suchregulations 10.6  Ensure  enhanced  representation  and  voice  \
for  developing  countries  in decision-making in global international economic and \
financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and \
legitimate institutions 10.7  Facilitate  orderly,  safe,  regular  and  responsible  \
migration  and  mobility  of people,  including  through  the  implementation  of  \
planned  and  well-managed migration policies 10.a  Implement the principle of \
special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least \
developed countries,in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements 10.b  \
Encourage  official  development  assistance  and financial  flows,  including \
foreign direct investment, to States where the needis greatest, in particular least \
developed  countries,  African  countries,  small  island  developing  States  and \
landlocked  developing  countries,  in  accordance  withtheir  national  plans  and \
programmes 10.c  By  2030,  reduce  to  less  than  3 per cent  the  transaction  \
costs  of  migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors withcosts higher \
than 5 percent

This challenge is a call for all Geo4labs for inputs to construct this poster in an \
open and collaborative way. The idea is to expand the poster to a website, where \
projects, applications, and other solutions could be shared. This is a great \
opportunity to showcase the labs outcomes in the UN environment in this very \
sensitive and important global issue.  Any other ideas on this project are welcome!

How to participate:

  *   Send and abstract from 500 to 1000 words include as many pictures of classes, \
                projects, field works, mapathons, and, of course, maps and map \
                interfaces.
  *    Optional: Video with up to 5 minutes presenting your lab activities.
  *    Send the results to \
geo4all.cartographicchallenge@gmail.com<mailto:geo4all.cartographicchallenge@gmail.com> \
until March 31st, 2016.

During the month of April, the posters layout ideas will be open to vote and \
collaboration.

Outputs :

  *      Poster and ICA Atlas
  *      Website with results and edited video
  *      Publication of the abstracts with ISBN

Best regards,

Silvana Camboim (chair) – silvanacamboim@gmail.com<mailto:silvanacamboim@gmail.com>

Mike Finn (co-chair) - mfinn@usgs.gov<mailto:mfinn@usgs.gov>

Open Source Geotechnologies Commission – http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/

[1] http://mapyear.org//

[2] https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/

[3] http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1&Lang=EICA

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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Our \
thanks to Professor Silvana Comboim&nbsp; (The Federal University of Paraná, \
Brazil) and chair of the ICA Commission on Open source Geotechnologies and Mike \
Finn (United States Geological Survey, USA) and cochair of the ICA Commission on \
Open source Geotechnologies for leading this excellent Geo4All Cartographic \
Challenge as part of the International Map Year to support the United Nations \
Sustainable Development Goal on Reducing inequality within and among countries. I \
think this is a great opportunity to highlight the importance of working together on \
the bigger aim to empower and provide quality education opportunities for our bottom \
billions brothers and sisters worldwide (who are too poor that they dont even have a \
voice). 
Digital technologies are a big enabler for providing Quality education \
opportunities for everyone. The costs of hardware is coming down (and will keep \
coming down), internet access is increasing even in poor countries (and will keep \
increasing) but the biggest artificial barrier is the high cost of properitary \
software. So by having free and open software will enable billions of our brothers \
and sisters globally to also get opportunities for getting quality education. I have \
seen this happening in poor schools in my own state Kerala in India,&nbsp; where \
thanks to a pioneering initiative called IT@Schools which is also the \
world's&nbsp; largest simultaneous deployment of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) \
based ICT education providing opportunities for over 12,000 schools, benifitting 6 \
million students and 200,000 teachers in the state.&nbsp; Details at <a \
href="https://www.itschool.gov.in/glance.php" \
target="_blank">https://www.itschool.gov.in/glance.php</a> &nbsp; The scalability of \
this initiative has been amazing and this would not have happened if we had to depend \
of properitery vendors.&nbsp; 
 
There are lot of examples around the world that shows the power of open principles in \
education. For example, our colleagues in Uruguay (Sergio \
Acosta y Lara and others) are doing amazing work through gvSIG Batovi \
initiative providing digital education opportunities to all students in \
government schools across the country through the wider CEIBAL initiative. See \
details at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo" \
target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo</a> &nbsp; (video with \
English translation). 
Education and empowerment&nbsp; are key&nbsp; for getting rid of extreme poverty and \
help create digital economy opportunities also for&nbsp; billions of our economically \
poor brothers and sisters across our planet and we cannot allow creating artificial \
digital barriers through high costs properitary licences to keep continue denying \
them their rightful opportunities for a better future for thier children. Access \
to quality education opportunities is everyone's birthright. 
Education and empowerment of students are also key&nbsp; for developing creative and \
open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes \
to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future \
generations. So let us all work together to enable open principles in education to \
help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and \
opportunities for everyone. 
Best wishes, 
 
Suchith&nbsp; 
 
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behalf of Silvana Camboim [silvanacamboim@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, \
February 16, 2016 5:29 PM To: ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org 
Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo4All Cartographic Challenge – How Openness can \
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This year is \
International Map Year [1], a worldwide celebration of maps and their unique role in \
our world. It's organized by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and \
supported by the United Nations (UN). <p style="border:0px; \
font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:15px; margin:0px \
0px 1.625em; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(55,55,55); \
line-height:24.375px"> To celebrate this year, ICA Commissions are preparing a series \
of activities to demonstrate the ability of Cartography helping to solve global \
issues, accordingly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals [2] <p \
style="border:0px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; \
font-size:15px; margin:0px 0px 1.625em; outline:0px; padding:0px; \
vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(55,55,55); line-height:24.375px"> The result of \
this will be a poster exposition and an Atlas published by ICA. Each goal (there are \
17) will have one poster. The Open Source Geotechnologies Commission got the Goal \
number 10 ("Reduce inequality within and among countries"). Under this goal, there \
are 7 targets detailed in page 21 of this document [3]. <blockquote \
style="border:0px; font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size:15px; \
font-style:italic; margin:0px 3em; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; \
quotes:&quot;&quot; &quot;&quot;; color:rgb(55,55,55); line-height:24.375px"> UN \
Sustainable Development Goal 10 –&nbsp; Reduce inequality within and among \
countries 10.1&nbsp; By&nbsp; 2030,&nbsp; progressively&nbsp; \
achieve&nbsp; and&nbsp; sustain&nbsp; income&nbsp; growth&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; \
bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average \
10.2&nbsp; By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion \
of&nbsp; all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion \
or economic or other status 10.3&nbsp; Ensure&nbsp; equal&nbsp; opportunity&nbsp; \
and&nbsp; reduce&nbsp; inequalities&nbsp; of&nbsp; outcome,&nbsp; including&nbsp; by \
eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate \
legislation, policies and action in this regard 10.4&nbsp; Adopt&nbsp; \
policies,&nbsp; especially&nbsp; fiscal,&nbsp; wage&nbsp; and&nbsp; social&nbsp; \
protection&nbsp; policies,&nbsp; and progressively achieve greater equality \
10.5&nbsp; Improve&nbsp; the&nbsp; regulation&nbsp; and&nbsp; monitoring&nbsp; \
of&nbsp; global&nbsp; financial&nbsp; markets&nbsp; and institutions and strengthen \
the implementation of&nbsp;suchregulations 10.6&nbsp; Ensure&nbsp; \
enhanced&nbsp; representation&nbsp; and&nbsp; voice&nbsp; for&nbsp; developing&nbsp; \
countries&nbsp; in decision-making in global international economic and financial \
institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate \
institutions 10.7&nbsp; Facilitate&nbsp; orderly,&nbsp; safe,&nbsp; regular&nbsp; \
and&nbsp; responsible&nbsp; migration&nbsp; and&nbsp; mobility&nbsp; of people,&nbsp; \
including&nbsp; through&nbsp; the&nbsp; implementation&nbsp; of&nbsp; planned&nbsp; \
and&nbsp; well-managed migration policies 10.a&nbsp; Implement the principle of \
special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least \
developed countries,in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements \
10.b&nbsp; Encourage&nbsp; official&nbsp; development&nbsp; assistance&nbsp; and \
financial&nbsp; flows,&nbsp; including foreign direct investment, to States where the \
needis greatest, in particular least developed&nbsp; countries,&nbsp; African&nbsp; \
countries,&nbsp; small&nbsp; island&nbsp; developing&nbsp; States&nbsp; and \
landlocked&nbsp; developing&nbsp; countries,&nbsp; in&nbsp; accordance&nbsp; \
withtheir&nbsp; national&nbsp; plans&nbsp; and programmes 10.c&nbsp; By&nbsp; \
2030,&nbsp; reduce&nbsp; to&nbsp; less&nbsp; than&nbsp; 3 per cent&nbsp; the&nbsp; \
transaction&nbsp; costs&nbsp; of&nbsp; migrant remittances and eliminate remittance \
corridors withcosts higher than 5 percent </blockquote>
<p style="border:0px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; \
font-size:15px; margin:0px 0px 1.625em; outline:0px; padding:0px; \
vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(55,55,55); line-height:24.375px"> This challenge \
is a call for all Geo4labs for inputs to construct this poster in an open and \
collaborative way. The idea is to expand the poster to a website, where projects, \
applications, and other solutions could be shared. This is a great opportunity to \
showcase the labs outcomes in the UN environment in this very sensitive and important \
global issue.&nbsp; Any other ideas on this project are welcome! <p \
style="border:0px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; \
font-size:15px; margin:0px 0px 1.625em; outline:0px; padding:0px; \
vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(55,55,55); line-height:24.375px"> How to participate: <ul \
style="border:0px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; \
font-size:15px; margin:0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline:0px; padding:0px; \
vertical-align:baseline; list-style:square; color:rgb(55,55,55); \
line-height:24.375px"> <li style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; \
font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; \
vertical-align:baseline"> Send and abstract from 500 to 1000 words include as many \
pictures of classes, projects, field works, mapathons, and, of course, maps and map \
interfaces.</li><li style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; \
font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline"> \
&nbsp;Optional: Video with up to 5 minutes presenting your lab activities.</li><li \
style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; \
margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline"> &nbsp;Send the \
results to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:geo4all.cartographicchallenge@gmail.com" \
style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; \
margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(25,130,209); \
text-decoration:none" \
target="_blank">geo4all.cartographicchallenge@gmail.com</a>&nbsp;until March 31st, 2016.</li></ul> <p style="border:0px; \
font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:15px; margin:0px \
0px 1.625em; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(55,55,55); \
line-height:24.375px"> During the month of April, the posters layout ideas will be \
open to vote and collaboration. <p style="border:0px; font-family:'Helvetica \
Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:15px; margin:0px 0px 1.625em; \
outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(55,55,55); \
line-height:24.375px"> Outputs : <ul style="border:0px; \
font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:15px; margin:0px \
0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; \
list-style:square; color:rgb(55,55,55); line-height:24.375px"> <li style="border:0px; \
font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; \
outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline"> &nbsp; &nbsp;Poster and ICA \
Atlas</li><li style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; \
font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline"> \
&nbsp; &nbsp;Website with results and edited video</li><li style="border:0px; \
font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; \
outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline"> &nbsp; &nbsp;Publication of the \
abstracts with ISBN</li></ul> Best \
regards, Silvana Camboim \
(chair) –&nbsp;<a href="mailto:silvanacamboim@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">silvanacamboim@gmail.com</a> Mike Finn (co-chair) -&nbsp;<a href="mailto:mfinn@usgs.gov" \
target="_blank">mfinn@usgs.gov</a> Open Source Geotechnologies Commission –&nbsp;<a \
href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/" \
target="_blank">http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/</a> 
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<p style="border:0px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; \
font-size:15px; margin:0px 0px 1.625em; outline:0px; padding:0px; \
vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(55,55,55); line-height:24.375px"> [1]&nbsp;<a \
href="http://mapyear.org/" style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; \
font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; \
vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(25,130,209); text-decoration:none" \
target="_blank">http://mapyear.org/</a>/ <p style="border:0px; \
font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:15px; margin:0px \
0px 1.625em; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(55,55,55); \
line-height:24.375px"> [2]&nbsp;<a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/" \
style="border:0px; font-family:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-weight:inherit; \
margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(25,130,209); \
text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/</a> \
[3]&nbsp;<a \
href="http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1&amp;Lang=E" \
style="font-family:inherit; font-size:15px; line-height:24.375px; font-style:inherit; \
font-weight:inherit; border:0px; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; \
vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(25,130,209); text-decoration:none" \
target="_blank">http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1&amp;Lang=E</a>ICA&nbsp;
 

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