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?

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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

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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

More details at

http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it

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