why openness and capacity development are key for harnessing the potential of geoagri
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Why Openness and capacity building are key for harnessing the potential of GeoAgri?
Suchith Anand
Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU
www.nottingham.ac.uk/open
Serendipity
Some reflections
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Why is Openness Important?
http://www.oxera.com/News---Events/News/January-2013/Oxera-quantifies-the-benefits-of-Geo-services-to-g.aspx
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GLOBAL SOCIETAL PROBLEMS: access GLOBAL SOCIETAL PROBLEMS: access to water, food, sanitation, traffic to water, food, sanitation, traffic congestions, economic sustainability, congestions, economic sustainability, citizenscitizens’’ health, impact on environment … health, impact on environment …
Mapping is a critical component to help understand and develop solutions
Why is Geoeducation & capacity building important?
Kibera , Kenya
Dharavi, Mumbaihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/56685562@N00/2340042701
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8485582@N07/7365580810
GIS tools play a key role in helping find solutions to global societal challenges
HungerPovertyInnovation
www.godan.info
Join the GODAN Capacity Development WG
The objectives of this working group
•Promote open data knowledge, increase awareness of ongoing open data initiatives, innovations and good practices
•Advocate for collaborative efforts agriculture and nutrition open data initiatives through knowledge sharing among capacity development activities
•Advocate programs, good practices, and lessons learned that enable the use of open data. Promote capacity development and diversity of open data users for a more effective accessibility, use, engagement and understand of open data
Geo for All - Making Geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all
Image Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
First my thank you to the global Geo for All community that made this possible
Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU
June 2010
“Geo for All” started from very humble beginnings
Aim – Build research and teaching infrastructure worldwide
Problem – No initial funding!
Biggest Strength – amazing support from colleagues and students
Open Source Geospatial Lab founding meeting at UoN
Image Credit :NASA/ESA
Starting from Nothing is powerful
Who are we?Government organisations, academia, industry, startups, NGOs , teachers, students, …
FOSS4G 2013 @Nottingham
We are Global community
It is all about learning and sharing
Open GIS Summer School in Girona
And empowering the next generation
Aim
Establishing GIS research and training opportunities
We are Multi disciplinary
We are all passionate about Research and Education
UN Global Service centre, Brindisi, Italy 7-11 March 2016
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Education + Empowerment = Geo4All
Need for Open Principles
• Open source software.
• Open data.
• Open standards.
• Open access to research publications.
• Open education resources
GeoForAll fundamentally is based on Open Principles
Science is NOT a Black Box
Agricultural modelling
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from prototyping to operational
a multidisciplinary project between
Crop sciences / Plant Sciences /Agronomy &
Geospatial Sciences• genetic & phenotypic & trait information• agricultural & environmental information• geospatial architecture & data & models management
GRASP
Geospatial Resource for Agricultural Species and Pests
“Geospatial Resource for Agricultural Species and Pests with integrated workflow modelling to support Global Food Security (GRASP-GFS)” (2013)
Didier Leibovici, Sean Mayers el.al
Generic workflow of the GRASP projectuse and reuse of available information
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Includes pests,
diseases, weeds
information
Includes
risks (p d w)
GRASPplatform
part of CropBASE (CFF)
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Spatial Patterns in the genetic variation of Bambara groundnut
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Roberto Santos et al. 2016
Geospatial Standards (for ex. OGC spec.)
Maturity of open source software (for
ex. OSGeo stack)
Open Data
Ability for showing the operation of general laws
is fundamental for scientific research
Unique convergence of many key developments that made Open Geospatial Science possible
Join the GODAN Local Farming Challenge
@NASA Europa Challenge 2017
Organisors
GODAN Local Farming Challenge
We invite innovative ideas on Urban farming from students worldwide
Some examples:
•mapping for optimal linking of local farming community directly with potential customers •tools for visualising spatio-temporal aspects of local farming •ideas for helping reducing wastage (for example real time linking with local food banks) etc.
Have a look at previous projects
Criteria
Prize
1000 Euro in total for the best student team in Agriculture challenge using open data sources
Certificates from NASA and GODAN for all participants
Why Openness in GeoAgri?
helps in harnessing the potential of GeoAgri for Informed Decision Making
• empowerment of staff and students capacity building developing creative and open minds in
students which is critical for building open innovation
contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations.
Represents the individual content creator on the World Wide Web
Building an open source, open standards, open data research framework for AgriGIS
Key advantages
•Scalable
•Interoperability
•Accelerate Innovation
•Low costs
•No proprietary lockin
•Benefits wider community
The technology can be inexpensive, easy to use, and open to all.
Why - Social ResponsibilityMaking resources including software and data openly
available offers an opportunity for knowledge to be shared widely so as to increase learning opportunities.
Example – Collaborating with educational initiatives like gvSIG Batoví
For details contact:Sergio Acosta y Lara
sacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy Alvaro Anguix
aanguix@gvsig.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo
Thanks to all colleagues in the “Geo for All” initiative
http://www.geoforall.org
Image Credit :NASA/ESA
Synergies of joining minds on a common mission makes the seemingly “impossible” possible
Let us all join to eradicate extreme poverty and enable shared prosperity for all
Geo for All – Empowering communities for a better world
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