Dear Suchith, Thanks for this update and we welcome Kiringai.Please,let me know how I can help further the GODAN network in Nigeria ,if any and how exactly,do you want the training material packaged. Victor N.Sunday Founder & Team Coordinator-UniqueMappers Open Source & Citizens Science Network(UniqueMappersTeam) UniqueMapperTeam GeoForAll Lab,Nigeria Lecturer:Goinformatics & Environmemental Managment University of Port Harcourt,Nigeria
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:30 PM Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > > The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) supports the > proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and > nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent > challenge of ensuring world food security. As part of GODAN’s Capacity > Development Working Group[1], we ran AgriGIS ThinkTank in Nairobi (2016) > and Washington (2017) to get inputs from the community. Details at > https://www.godan.info/documents/summary-godan-think-tank-open-geo-data-and-open-tools-achieve-food-security-and-sustainable-agriculture > > > As requested by participants at the GODAN ThinkTanks , we have > provided links and resources for free and open tools for AgriGIS at the > GODAN website and started promoting OSGeo software to our community > members. There is big demand from the GODAN capacity development community > for GeoForAll training resources [2] , OSGeoLive, open data tutorials > etc. GODAN Capacity Development community consists of over 4000 members > globally from policy makers to students. > > > As majority of our members are from developing world and from economically > poor communities , there is internet bandwidth issues esp. for downloading > big files like OSGeo Live (4GB!), so we have decided to provide them > through USBs to our partners (RCMRD, RUFORUM etc) for their AgriGIS > training in Africa and I would like to request help from the > OSGeo community for this. We will also be helping the Regional > Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) > colleagues to establish GeoForAll labs in their universities. The Regional > Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), > established by ten Vice Chancellors in 2004, is a consortium of 113 African > universities operating within 38 countries spanning the African continent. > RUFORUM is coordinated by a Secretariat hosted by Makerere University in > Kampala, Uganda. RUFORUM supports universities to address the important and > largely unfulfilled role that universities play in contributing to the > well‐being of small‐scale farmers and economic development of countries . > Details at https://www.ruforum.org/about-us > > > In 2018, I was invited by RUFORUM to address on the topic of *“Harnessing > the digital potential to drive **higher education transformation in > Africa”* [3]. I shared GeoForAll principles to ensure geo digital > economy opportunities are also available to economically poor countries and > economically poor people worldwide. > > > I would like to introduce you to Kiringai Kamau ( GODAN Africa lead) and > request you to help him and all colleagues in Africa to build up > capacity in AgriGIS. Kiringai is also Programme Lead for University of > Nairobi’s Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing > (CANIS). He is the Executive Director for Programme for Capacity > Development in Africa (P4CDA) where he is involved in a new thinking in > African Agriculture - the Student Led Agricultural Extension (SLAE). > > > I had the opportunity to meet Kiringai at the GODAN AgriGIS ThinkTank In > Nairobi in 2016 [4]. He went on to establish GeoforAll at University of > Nairobi’s Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing > (CANIS) and shared GeoForAll ideas to wider colleagues in Africa. I am > impressed by his work on Capacity Development at grassroots level esp. > for students and small holder farmers. > > > Kiringai, You already know GeoForAll community. May I introduce you to > OSGeo Live community. Please join the maillist at > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive and send any queries > you have to help you in your training needs. Please also request relevant > colleagues in RUFORUM, RCMRD and other universities in Africa to join the > OSGeolive maillist , so they can get help for their AgriGIS capacity > development and training needs. Thanks. > > > I also request the GeoForAll community to share ideas on developing training > materials in Capacity Development in Climate, Landuse, ecosystem services > for Agriculture. Thanks. > > > Best wishes, > > > Suchith > > > > Dr. Suchith Anand > > Chief Scientist > > Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition > > https://www.godan.info > > > > > > > [1] > https://www.godan.info/working-groups/capacity-development-working-group > > > [2] > https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/ > > > [3] > https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/harnessing-the-digital-potential-to-drive-higher-education-transformation-in-africa/ > > > [4] > https://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/11/summary-of-agrigis-thinktank-and-workshop-2016-nairobi-kenya/ > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. 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