Open Principles in Science and Education
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The document discusses the importance of open principles in science and education, emphasizing their role in addressing global challenges such as hunger, digital divide, and urban growth issues. It highlights initiatives like GeoForAll, which aim to provide access to open data, software, and educational resources to empower communities and foster collaborations. The document advocates for the use of open-source tools in education to enhance learning opportunities for all, regardless of economic background.
Open Principles in Science and Education
- 1. Open Principles in Science and Education Dr. Suchith Anand Chief Scientist Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition
- 3. How can we ensure zero hunger for all? How can we use open data to help small holder farmers?
- 4. A Small Circle in Asia Contains More Than Half the World's Population – But How many Scientists and research outputs are from here? http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/small-circle-asia-more-half-worlds-population.htm How do we bridge the Digital Divide?
- 5. Over 12,000 schools About 6 million students About 200,000 teachers https://itschool.gov.in/glance.php Why Openness in Education Important? Good example of impact of openness in Education from my state Kerala in India
- 6. GeoForAll - Bridging the Geospatial Digital Divide
- 7. Open Geospatial Science Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU
- 8. GLOBAL SOCIETAL PROBLEMS: access to water, sanitation, traffic congestions, economic sustainability, citizens’ health, impact on environment … Mapping is a critical component to help understand and develop solutions for urban growth problems Proprietary software tools are very expensive (hence unavailable) for economically poor countries and communities worldwide Why? Kibera , Kenya Dharavi, Mumbai http://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
- 9. alt.ac.uk Why is Openness Important in Science and Education?
- 10. alt.ac.uk Education + Empowerment = Geo4All
- 11. Who are we? Government organisations, academia, industry, startups, NGOs , teachers, students, … FOSS4G 2013 @Nottingham
- 12. Why - Social Responsibility Making 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
- 13. And empowering the next generation
- 14. We want to create educational opportunities for everyone Image thanks to Victoria Rautenbach
- 15. Building Bridges and Empowering communities
- 16. How do we bridge the Digital Divide? GODAN AgriGIS Hands on workshop and ThinkTank @RCMRD, Nairobi, Oct 2016
- 17. GeoForAll - Open Principles in Science and Education • Open source software • Open access to research publications • Open education resources • Open data • Open standards http://www.geoforall.org
- 18. STEM education using Open Principles Students learning map production using free and open technologies like QGIS and open data (Photos thanks to Edward and GeoForAll colleagues in Tanzania)
- 19. We want to create opportunities for high quality science education and empowerment for all economic backgrounds
- 20. School learners at GeoForAll lab at the University of Pretoria, August 2016 Image thanks to Victoria Rautenbach
- 21. We will create opportunities for high quality science education and empowerment for all economic backgrounds Thanks to Work done by our Sergio Acosta Y Lara and our GeoForAll colleagues in Uruguay
- 22. alt.ac.uk GeoForAll contributions to UN SDGs
- 23. Thanks to all colleagues in the “Geo for All” initiative Let us all join to eradicate extreme poverty and enable shared prosperity for all http://www.geoforall.org