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Table of Contents Students In my opinion, we have to focus on the base of the educational system. It is very easy to teach university Table of Contents students. They know a lot of things, Editorial ..…..............…............. 1 and it is easy to teach them, using complicated words and concepts, Editorial Board ………………....…. 2 about spatial science. But what about 1. Activities ………………….……… 4 the students in primary and secondary 2. Lab of the month..…............ 4 education? How can we make them Nikos Lambrinos understand how spatial the world in 3. Events ……………….….…....…... 5 Chief Editor which they live is, and how can they 4. Conferences ……….……. 6, 7, 8 Dept. of Primary Education use the tools we have constructed in 5. Webinars Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki order to manipulate the spatiality of Greece 6. Courses ………….……………... 8, 9 our world? 7. Training programs …..... 9. 10 Dear members of the Network / We can't do this if we don't get all the help we can from their teachers. But 8. Key research publications . 10 readers of the Newsletter, even the teachers have different ideas As you may find out, this issue has 9. Funding opportunities about the way they can teach about almost twice as much material from 10. Free and open software, this world. In fact, everything has to the previous issues, thanks to the data ………….….………………. 10-12 do with the pedagogical part of the great job of all the co-editors and the spatial tools we use and the 11. Free Books members of our network. You can find curriculum of each level in each 12. Articles ………………….... 12-20 very interesting articles, based on country. This is why we have to work discussions done in February, about 13. Scholarships for students with the teachers, as they work with AgriGIS, Global School Network, the and staff …………….……………… 20 their students, so they can let us know Open City Smart project, and NASA 14. Exchange programs for what their needs are. In some cases World Wind. students and staff we do have some information from From these four, the newest one is the 15. Awards ………….………… 20, 21 published articles, but it has to be beginning of the discussion about the more organized and, why not, more 16. Web sites ………………...…… 21 formation of a Global School Network. guided. 17. Ideas ………………...……. 21- 24 As the discussion has just started, I Finally, there was an interesting would like to share with you why I 18. Social contribution telemeeting with Christopher Tucker, think there is a need of a Global Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Network. The MapStory Foundation, in which First of all, this would put an order to Chris let us know more about the situation we face of many people MapStory and what it can do for the doing things with no coordination; no teachers and students. We all hope “Central Instructions;” no “basic that Chris will share with us an article ideas” of what, when and how to do on MapStory, and we will have the it. Most of us work at a university or a pleasure to publish it in a future issue. research center, and whatever we do is for the students of higher Have a nice reading education. Nikos Lambrinos, Chief Editor. Editorial Board Please refer to the appropriate person according to the following table: Chief Editor Nikos Lambrinos, Associate Professor, Dept. of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Oceania President of the Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence [email protected] Co-editor Rizwan Bulbul, Assistant Professor of GIScience India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Head of Geospatial Research and Education Lab Burma, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Department of Space Science, Institute of Space Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, United Arab Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan Emirates, Kuwait and Islands of S. Pacific. [email protected] Co-editors Pavel Kikin, Senior Lecturer “Department of applied informatics and IT”, Siberian State University of Russia, Mongolia, China, Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam, Geosystems and Technologies Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Alexey Kolesnikov, Senior Lecturer “Department of Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines, cartography and GIS”, Siberian State University of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Geosystems and Technologies Kyrgyzstan. [email protected] Co-editor Rania Elsayed , Computers & Information Researcher, Division of Scientific Training & Continuous Studies, National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences, Africa Cairo, Egypt. [email protected] Co-editor Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Germany, Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Ela), Head of Education Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Unit UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic, [email protected] Slovakia. Co-editor Antoni Perez Navaro, Associate Professor at Universitat Portugal, Spain, France, U.K., Ireland, Iceland, Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Computer Sciences and Luxemburg, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Multimedia Department The Balkans. [email protected] Co-editor Emma Strong, GIS Coordinator with Southern Mississippi Planning and Development District North and Central America [email protected] Co-editor Sergio Acosta Y Lara, Departamento de Geomática Dirección, Nacional de Topografía, Ministerio de South America Transporte y Obras Públicas, URUGUAY [email protected] Production Designer Nikos Voudrislis, Principal of the 1st Primary School of Asvestochori, Thessaloniki, Greece, MSc, PhD candidate in Design and final formation of the newsletter geography education. [email protected] 2 GeoForAll Regional Chairs and Contact Information GeoForAll Themes North America Region . OpenCity Smart Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia), Patrick Hogan Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA) Subscribe at mail list (USA) http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- Mail list: http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/ bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-northamerica mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience Website: Email: [email protected] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart South America Region . Teacher Training & School Education Chairs: Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana (Poland), Nikos Lambrinos (Greece) Camboim (Brazil) Subscribe at mail list Mail list: geoforall-teachertraining@lists. http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- osgeo.org bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-southamerica Website: Email: [email protected] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTrai ning_SchoolEducation Africa Region . GeoForAll (GeoParaTodos) Themes in Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Spanish Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay), Antoni Africa) Subscribe at mail list Pérez Navarro (Spain) http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- Mail list: Spanish : geoforall-spanish@ bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa lists.osgeo.org Email: [email protected] Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish Asia Region (including Australia) . CitizenScience Chairs: Peter Mooney (Ireland) and Maria Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Brovelli (Italy) Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India) Subscribe at Mail list: https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-geocrowd bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-asiaaustralia Website: Email: [email protected] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geocrowdsourcing_Citi zenScience_FOSS4G Europe Region . AgriGIS Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney Chairs: Didier Leibovici (U.K.) and Nobusuke (Ireland) Subscribe at mail list Iwasaki (Japan) http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- Mail list: https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-europe bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-agrigis Email: [email protected] Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Agrigis 3 areas of healthy ageing, clean energy, and sustainable 1. Activities of the cities, with a cross cutting theme on industry links. The Network details of the Joint European Commission- Australian Government Communique are available here. Siberian State University of Geosystem and It is my great pleasure to introduce our colleagues at Technologies has announced the opening of a the SMART Open Source Geospatial Laboratory, business incubator for students based on Siberian University of Wollongong, Australia, as our “Geo4All” lab of this month whose research reminded me of the OpenSource Geospatial Lab. More information at essence of these Joint European Commission- the SGU GIT website Australian Government agreements and spirit of The first meeting of Ukrainian FOSS GIS users working together for enabling research which focuses by Daria Svidzinska (go to the “Articles” session to on global scale challenges and opportunities. read the article) SMART's Open Source Geospatial Lab is undertaking a number of research projects that are centered on the use and development of free and Open Source Geospatial software to assist government, business, and the community in responding to infrastructure 2. Lab of the Month problems and creating solutions for the future. I was impressed to read about the excellent research SMART Open Source Geospatial projects, and I see synergies with the OpenCitySmart Laboratory, Australia thematic of Geo4All. For example, the PetaJakarta Project is a University of Wollongong Global Challenges By Suchith Anand Project that addresses the challenge of Sustaining Coastal and Marine Zones. The project is supported Dear Geo4All Colleagues, financially by the
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