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From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand () nottingham ! ac ! uk>
Date: 2016-11-16 14:43:51
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Thank you Kiringai. I also fully agree on the need to bring together ideas to support \
RUFORUM [1] to develop the curriculum as the next step forward. We have many options \
to make this happen. I suggest that we explore the GODAN Capacity Building Working \
Group (as the focus is on Agriculture ) for more ideas and action plan for this . \
GeoForAll can also provide inputs for the curriculum from GIS side. I am ccing the \
GODAN Capacity Development WG so we all can work together and build synergies.
Isaura, Imma – may I request that you invite Kiringai for a telemeeting so we can \
discuss ideas further and build synergies with GODAN WG activities. Thanks.
I also request other colleagues to please come forward and provide your inputs/ideas \
. Thanks.
Best wishes,
Suchith
[1] http://www.ruforum.org
________________________________________
From: Kiringai Kamau <kiringai@gmail.com>
Sent: 16 November 2016 1:35 PM
To: Anand Suchith
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geoforall@lists.osgeo.org; Prof. S.G. Kiama; Dr. John \
Mburu; Nampala, Paul; Ann Rose Mwangi; Dhairya Pujara; Muchiri \
Nyaggah
Subject: Re: AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural \
Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll
Happy GIS Day Suchith,
The GIS Think Tank is fired to do good for Africa. We want to grow our centralized \
data, more so if we can achieve this from a localized country data which mirrored can \
provide a huge database for what the AU and CAADP through the Malabo Declaration \
calls the evidence driven decision making.
With data, our decision making will be fast, efficient, effective and no doubts \
sustainable. We are taking the very first step of faith by working together. The 86+ \
university members of the RUFORUM will benefit from the combined thinking of this \
forum that is as rich as our combined resourcefulness. We now seek to tap from this \
and grow Africa's resourcefulness. Mapped, it will be the largest resource that makes \
all of us learn from what they can see rather than hearing of the same.
We need to take the first step of helping RUFORUM develop the curriculum so anyone \
with ideas where the financial support for RUFORUM can come so that they can call us \
together to think jointly on the curriculum, if the GODAN Capacity Building Working \
Group can organize an online curriculum thinking forum to create a framework that \
will guide what we do next, if they are slow and OSGeo wants to lead us to take the \
first baby steps on this...we at CANIS are willing to convene the thinking from an \
Africa perspective to ensure we follow closely and driven the agenda.
I am open to ideas on how we can move this agenda forward and would love if our \
mentor Suchith can throw some light on this.
Happy GIS Day to you all.
Kiringai
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Suchith Anand \
<Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote: Dear \
Kiringai,
Thank you for these excellent updates. Your collaborations with RUFORUM to further \
accelerate open data on agriculture and nutrition by establishing a truly ICT4Ag \
driven degree program is truly remarkable. This will help make this benefit the whole \
Africa and wider world. I believe the time for Geo Spatial Driven Africa has arrived \
and this momentum created will bring long term benefits not only to Africa but to the \
wider world.
You and colleagues in Africa are now part of OSGeo -the world’s largest Geospatial \
ecosystem , so you have full access to the huge network of collaborators from \
governments, industry , universities, NGOs globally that you can connect to expand \
your programs rapidly . Open innovation is key in driving Digital Economy \
opportunities and we are determined to make sure that everyone benefits .
Open Data developments are exciting but what is the point of all these open data if \
we have to buy high cost properitery software licences to make use of the data. This \
is esp. big issue for colleagues in developing countries where cost is a big factor. \
So I really hope the short courses and curriculum you develop will have open \
principles at the core so that it is scaleable , sustainable and contribute to open \
innovation.
I wish you all the success and best wishes in your aim to creating a Geo Spatial \
Driven Africa which brings benefits for everyone.
Happy GIS Day 2016.
Best wishes,
Suchith
________________________________________
From: Kiringai Kamau <kiringai@gmail.com<mailto:kiringai@gmail.com>>
Sent: 11 November 2016 3:30 AM
To: Anand Suchith
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>; \
geoforall@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall@lists.osgeo.org>; Prof. S.G. Kiama; Dr. \
John Mburu; Nampala, Paul; Ann Rose Mwangi; Dhairya Pujara; Muchiri \
Nyaggah
Subject: Re: AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural \
Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll
Thanks Suchith for this!
We are excited about the possibilities that are slowly emerging from the potential of \
creating a Geo Spatial Driven Africa. Since our ThinkTank Forum, we are discussing \
with Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) and a \
number of other partners on how we can make data driven decision making the focus of \
the next step in creating knowledge for the African Food Sector.
RUFORUM is therefore collaborating with CANIS to evolve a truly ICT4Ag driven degree \
programme that will be adopted by the 80+ members of the forum to also drive the open \
data on agriculture and nutrition. We have negotiated a proposal with the IDRC to \
support the financial support to launch this initiative, but are looking for other \
partners so that this effort can move faster to realization.
Our thinking is that we should have the curriculum formulation going on as we try and \
evolve the research domains that IDRC is keen in supporting. The financial support to \
the Think Tank Secretariat is currently being supported by CANIS, VACID Africa and \
Y-Center Africa. We intend to run a number of other short courses in Design Thinking \
and Innovation on the use of Open Data for the Transformation of Agriculture (ODATA) \
in Africa which we are currently evolving with Y-Center. Details of this will emerge \
as we evolve the programme. Anyone who knows institutions that we can work with is \
free to introduce the same to us so that we reach out to them.
The university of Nairobi has taken lead in adopting the Geospatial coordination \
perspectives of CANIS and is centralizing all its GeoSpatial Operations from a \
centralized server that has been dedicated to the model behind what came out of the \
Think Tank deliberations. Ms. Ann Rose Mwangi \
<arosemwangi@gmail.com<mailto:arosemwangi@gmail.com><mailto:arosemwangi@gmail.com<mailto:arosemwangi@gmail.com>>> \
is the linkage person on the coordination of the secretariat.
We look forward to inviting you all in the launch of the ODATA Programme once a date \
has been granted by the VC of the University of Nairobi on a date to be communicated \
soon.
We are and shall always remain at your disposal.
Sincerely,
Kiringai Kamau
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Suchith Anand \
<Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk>>> \
wrote: Dear All,
We are pleased to send you the summary updates from the very successful AgriGIS \
Workshop & Think Tank meetings in Nairobi organised jointly by the The University of \
Nottingham, the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), the \
Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) and Crops for the Future (CFF) \
on October 27-28, 2016.
The objective of the event was to provide a forum for stakeholders in agricultural \
research organizations in Africa to share knowledge and propose strategies on \
improving the use of open data, open educational resources , free and open \
geospatial software with the aim to expand Capacity Building and Training in AgriGIS \
to support Global Food Security.
The slides of the event are at \
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/agrigis-kenya-slides.aspx
We thank all the participants for their inputs and contributions for the Think-Tank \
discussions which covered the following themes (details to the summary of each theme \
are available at the event website)
* Big challenges for Agriculture in the African context
* Tools (known & wish list) used for agri using satellite/remote data collection
* Existing or potential data sets we would like to use
* Practical, technical, policy, impementation obstacles to Location \
aspects/geotechnologies for agri
* Data and Modelling
There was interest and support from participants for the need for Open Data in \
Agriculture and initiatives like GODAN [1].
Some of the key themes that emerged from the Think Tank discussions were the \
following
* Importance of the need of an organisation locally to facilitate and ensure \
sustainability of AgriGIS
* Spearheading open data and free and open software use for cost savings, \
expanding innovation and sustainability
* Need for Capacity building among stakeholders
We are getting lot of emails of interest lot of colleagues in Africa expressing \
interest in follow up activities. We are pleased to inform that Center for \
Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya has volunteered to \
host the secretariat for the Think Tank for developing as a focal point for \
interaction with other stakeholders on Open GIS and open data and keep building the \
ideas from the ThinkTank. We thank Kiringai Kamau and colleagues at CANIS for their \
support. Please contact Kiringai (email - \
kiringai@gmail.com<mailto:kiringai@gmail.com><mailto:kiringai@gmail.com<mailto:kiringai@gmail.com>> \
) for expanding AgriGIS momentum in Kenya. We are also pleased to welcome CANIS as \
our new GeoforAll lab in Kenya.
It is good to see many blogposts from participants of the workshop such as the one at \
GEOSYMP http://geosymp.com/2016/10/what-happened-at-the-agrigis-workshop-and-think-tank/
We would like to specifically thank our hosts RCMRD ( Dr Hussein Farah and all \
colleagues) for their excellent organisation and arrangements including the hands on \
workshop . We need to also make use of the community and momentum build by the \
ThinkTank for expanding future collaborations and make sure the community is kept \
updated. Please make use of the Twitter created to share your ideas \
https://twitter.com/hashtag/agrigisnr2016?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash
We shared some examples of research at Nottingham at \
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/genius/documents/egrasp-nairobi.pdf
We are hoping to keep building the collaborations in AgriGIS to support Global Food \
Security.
Best wishes,
Suchith
[1] http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/genius/documents/godan-uon-intro.pdf
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Thank you Kiringai. I also fully agree on the need to bring together ideas to support \
RUFORUM [1] to develop the curriculum as the next step forward. We have many options \
to make this happen. I suggest that we explore the GODAN Capacity Building Working \
Group (as the focus is on Agriculture ) for more ideas and action plan for this . \
GeoForAll can also provide inputs for the curriculum from GIS side. I am ccing the \
GODAN Capacity Development WG so we all can work together and build synergies.<br> \
<br> Isaura, Imma – may I request that you invite Kiringai for a telemeeting so we \
can discuss ideas further and build synergies with GODAN WG activities. Thanks.<br> \
<br> I also request other colleagues to please come forward and provide your \
inputs/ideas . Thanks.<br> <br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://www.ruforum.org" class="OWAAutoLink" \
id="LPlnk673230">http://www.ruforum.org</a> <br> <br>
<br>
<br>
________________________________________<br>
From: Kiringai Kamau <kiringai@gmail.com><br>
Sent: 16 November 2016 1:35 PM<br>
To: Anand Suchith<br>
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geoforall@lists.osgeo.org; Prof. S.G. Kiama; Dr. John \
Mburu; Nampala, Paul; Ann Rose Mwangi; Dhairya Pujara; Muchiri \
Nyaggah<br>
Subject: Re: AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural \
Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll<br> <br>
Happy GIS Day Suchith,<br>
<br>
The GIS Think Tank is fired to do good for Africa. We want to grow our centralized \
data, more so if we can achieve this from a localized country data which mirrored can \
provide a huge database for what the AU and CAADP through the Malabo Declaration \
calls the evidence driven decision making.<br>
<br>
With data, our decision making will be fast, efficient, effective and no doubts \
sustainable. We are taking the very first step of faith by working together. The \
86+ university members of the RUFORUM will benefit from the combined thinking of \
this forum that is as rich as our combined resourcefulness. We now seek to tap from \
this and grow Africa's resourcefulness. Mapped, it will be the largest resource that \
makes all of us learn from what they can see rather than hearing of the same.<br> \
<br> We need to take the first step of helping RUFORUM develop the curriculum so \
anyone with ideas where the financial support for RUFORUM can come so that they can \
call us together to think jointly on the curriculum, if the GODAN Capacity Building \
Working Group can organize an online curriculum thinking forum to create a framework \
that will guide what we do next, if they are slow and OSGeo wants to lead us to take \
the first baby steps on this...we at CANIS are willing to convene the thinking from \
an Africa perspective to ensure we follow closely and driven the agenda.<br>
<br>
I am open to ideas on how we can move this agenda forward and would love if our \
mentor Suchith can throw some light on this.<br> <br>
Happy GIS Day to you all.<br>
<br>
Kiringai<br>
<br>
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Suchith Anand \
<Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk>> \
wrote:<br> Dear Kiringai,<br>
<br>
Thank you for these excellent updates. Your collaborations with RUFORUM to further \
accelerate open data on agriculture and nutrition by establishing a truly ICT4Ag \
driven degree program is truly remarkable. This will help make this benefit the whole \
Africa and wider world. I believe the time for Geo Spatial Driven Africa has arrived \
and this momentum created will bring long term benefits not only to Africa but to the \
wider world.<br> <br>
You and colleagues in Africa are now part of OSGeo -the world’s largest Geospatial \
ecosystem , so you have full access to the huge network of collaborators from \
governments, industry , universities, NGOs globally that you can connect \
to expand your programs rapidly . Open innovation is key in driving Digital \
Economy opportunities and we are determined to make sure that everyone benefits .<br> \
<br> Open Data developments are exciting but what is the point of all these open data \
if we have to buy high cost properitery software licences to make use of the data. \
This is esp. big issue for colleagues in developing countries where cost is a big \
factor. So I really hope the short courses and curriculum you develop will have open \
principles at the core so that it is scaleable , sustainable and contribute to open \
innovation.<br> <br>
I wish you all the success and best wishes in your aim to creating a Geo Spatial \
Driven Africa which brings benefits for everyone.<br> <br>
Happy GIS Day 2016.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
<br>
<br>
________________________________________<br>
From: Kiringai Kamau <kiringai@gmail.com<mailto:kiringai@gmail.com>><br>
Sent: 11 November 2016 3:30 AM<br>
To: Anand Suchith<br>
Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>; \
geoforall@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall@lists.osgeo.org>; Prof. S.G. Kiama; \
Dr. John Mburu; Nampala, Paul; Ann Rose Mwangi; Dhairya Pujara; \
Muchiri Nyaggah<br>
Subject: Re: AgriGIS ThinkTank Summary and welcoming Center for Agricultural \
Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya to GeoForAll<br> <br>
Thanks Suchith for this!<br>
<br>
We are excited about the possibilities that are slowly emerging from the potential of \
creating a Geo Spatial Driven Africa. Since our ThinkTank Forum, we are discussing \
with Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) and a \
number of other partners on how we can make data driven decision making the focus of \
the next step in creating knowledge for the African Food Sector.<br> <br>
RUFORUM is therefore collaborating with CANIS to evolve a truly ICT4Ag driven degree \
programme that will be adopted by the 80+ members of the forum to also drive the \
open data on agriculture and nutrition. We have negotiated a proposal with the IDRC \
to support the financial support to launch this initiative, but are looking for \
other partners so that this effort can move faster to realization.<br> <br>
Our thinking is that we should have the curriculum formulation going on as we try and \
evolve the research domains that IDRC is keen in supporting. The financial support to \
the Think Tank Secretariat is currently being supported by CANIS, VACID Africa and \
Y-Center Africa. We intend to run a number of other short courses in Design Thinking \
and Innovation on the use of Open Data for the Transformation of Agriculture \
(ODATA) in Africa which we are currently evolving with Y-Center. Details of this will \
emerge as we evolve the programme. Anyone who knows institutions that we can work \
with is free to introduce the same to us so that we reach out to them.<br> <br>
The university of Nairobi has taken lead in adopting the Geospatial coordination \
perspectives of CANIS and is centralizing all its GeoSpatial Operations from a \
centralized server that has been dedicated to the model behind what came out of the \
Think Tank deliberations. Ms. Ann Rose Mwangi \
<arosemwangi@gmail.com<mailto:arosemwangi@gmail.com><mailto:arosemwangi@gmail.com<mailto:arosemwangi@gmail.com>>> \
is the linkage person on the coordination of the secretariat.<br> <br>
We look forward to inviting you all in the launch of the ODATA Programme once a date \
has been granted by the VC of the University of Nairobi on a date to be communicated \
soon.<br> <br>
We are and shall always remain at your disposal.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Kiringai Kamau<br>
<br>
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Suchith Anand \
<Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><mai \
lto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk>>> \
wrote:<br> Dear All,<br>
<br>
We are pleased to send you the summary updates from the very successful AgriGIS \
Workshop & Think Tank meetings in Nairobi organised jointly by the The University \
of Nottingham, the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), \
the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) and Crops for the Future \
(CFF) on October 27-28, 2016.<br> <br>
The objective of the event was to provide a forum for stakeholders in agricultural \
research organizations in Africa to share knowledge and propose strategies on \
improving the use of open data, open educational resources , free and open \
geospatial software with the aim to expand Capacity Building and Training in AgriGIS \
to support Global Food Security.<br> <br>
The slides of the event are at \
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/agrigis-kenya-slides.aspx<br> <br>
We thank all the participants for their inputs and contributions for the Think-Tank \
discussions which covered the following themes (details to the summary of each theme \
are available at the event website)<br> <br>
<br>
* Big challenges for Agriculture in the African context<br>
* Tools (known & wish list) used for agri using \
satellite/remote data collection<br> * Existing or potential data \
sets we would like to use<br> * Practical, technical, policy, \
impementation obstacles to Location aspects/geotechnologies for agri<br> \
* Data and Modelling<br> <br>
<br>
There was interest and support from participants for the need for Open Data in \
Agriculture and initiatives like GODAN [1].<br> <br>
Some of the key themes that emerged from the Think Tank discussions were \
the following<br> <br>
<br>
* Importance of the need of an organisation locally to facilitate \
and ensure sustainability of AgriGIS<br> * Spearheading open data \
and free and open software use for cost savings, expanding innovation and \
sustainability<br> * Need for Capacity building among \
stakeholders<br> <br>
We are getting lot of emails of interest lot of colleagues in Africa expressing \
interest in follow up activities. We are pleased to inform that Center for \
Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS) , Kenya has volunteered \
to host the secretariat for the Think Tank for developing as a focal \
point for interaction with other stakeholders on Open GIS and open data and keep \
building the ideas from the ThinkTank. We thank Kiringai Kamau and colleagues at \
CANIS for their support. Please contact Kiringai (email - \
kiringai@gmail.com<mailto:kiringai@gmail.com><mailto:kiringai@gmail.com<mailto:kiringai@gmail.com>> \
) for expanding AgriGIS momentum in Kenya. We are also pleased to welcome CANIS as \
our new GeoforAll lab in Kenya.<br> <br>
<br>
It is good to see many blogposts from participants of the workshop such as the one at \
GEOSYMP http://geosymp.com/2016/10/what-happened-at-the-agrigis-workshop-and-think-tank/<br>
<br>
<br>
We would like to specifically thank our hosts RCMRD ( Dr Hussein Farah and all \
colleagues) for their excellent organisation and arrangements including the hands on \
workshop . We need to also make use of the community and momentum build by the \
ThinkTank for expanding future collaborations and make sure the community is \
kept updated. Please make use of the Twitter created to share \
your ideas https://twitter.com/hashtag/agrigisnr2016?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash<br>
<br>
<br>
We shared some examples of research at Nottingham at \
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/genius/documents/egrasp-nairobi.pdf<br> <br>
We are hoping to keep building the collaborations in AgriGIS to support Global \
Food Security.<br> <br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
<br>
[1] http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/genius/documents/godan-uon-intro.pdf<br>
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