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<p><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Forwarded on behalf of
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<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:1.5pt;font-stretch:normal;min-height:17px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition online course and resources from GODAN Action might be useful
to some of you. The course might be useful for policy makers and scientists working in the area of agriculture, nutrition, weather and climate, and land data. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">It consists of five units as follows including 18 lessons. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Unit 1: Open Data Principles</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">More Details, lecture slides at
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit1" id="LPlnk142047">
http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit1</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Unit 2: Using Open Data</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">More Details, lecture slides at<b> </b>
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit2" id="LPlnk897426">
http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit2</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Unit 3: Making Data Open</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">More Details, lecture slides at
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit3" id="LPlnk401381">
http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit3</a> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Unit 4: Sharing Open Data</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">More Details, lecture slides at
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit4" id="LPlnk662237">
http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit4</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Unit 5: Intellectual Property and Copyright</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">More Details, lecture slides at<b> </b>
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit5" id="LPlnk850163">
http://aims.fao.org/online-courses/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition/unit5</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">This e-learning course and course materials is the result of a collaboration between GODAN Action partners, including the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (<a href="http://fao.org/" id="LPlnk416291">FAO</a>), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (<a href="http://www.gfar.net/" id="LPlnk293445">GFAR</a>), Wageningen Environmental Research, AgroKnow, <a href="http://aiddata.org/" id="LPlnk897869">AidData</a>,
the Institute of Development Studies (<a href="http://www.ids.ac.uk/" id="LPlnk7206">IDS</a>), the <a href="https://landportal.info/" id="LPlnk728600">Land Portal</a>, the Open Data Institute (<a href="http://www.opendata.institute/" id="LPlnk947296">ODI</a>)
and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (<a href="http://www.cta.int/en/" id="LPlnk748901">CTA</a>). I want to thank all GODAN colleagues who worked to develop these resources and make it available for everyone.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">For your geodata visualisation research and education needs, there is lot of work done by GeoForAll colleagues that might be useful . One example
is the <b>FOSS4G GeoAcademy Curriculum</b> <b>lectures and labs</b> . These are maintained and made available for download from the Spatial {Query} Lab on behalf of the
<a href="https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk340608">GeoAcademy</a>. The lectures focus on a vendor-agnostic set of theories and principles. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">These lectures and labs are freely available for you to use and are released under the
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" id="LPlnk415469">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license</a>. The lectures and labs are aligned to the
<a href="http://www.careeronestop.org/COMPETENCYMODEL/competency-models/geospatial-technology.aspx" id="LPlnk948012">
Geospatial Technology Competency Model</a> and all labs focus on the use of Free and Open Source GIS Software (FOSS4G). All of the labs are also available on
<a href="https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy" id="LPlnk894904">GitHub</a>.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">The following courses are available</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/gst-101-introduction-to-geospatial-technology/" id="LPlnk763786"><b>GST 101 – Introduction to Geospatial
Technology (QGIS)</b></a></span></u><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-102-spatial-analysis/" id="LPlnk269114"><b>GST 102 – Spatial Analysis (QGIS)</b></a></span></u><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-103-data-acquisition-and-management/" id="LPlnk757222"><b>GST 103 – Data Acquisition
and Management (QGIS)</b></a></span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-104-cartographic-design/" id="LPlnk517734"><b><span style="color:black">GST
104 – Cartographic Design (QGIS and Inkscape) </span></b></a></span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-105-introduction-to-remote-sensing/" id="LPlnk322320"><b>GST 105 – Introduction
to Remote Sensing (QGIS and GRASS)</b></a></span></u><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">All details and courses at
<a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/" id="LPlnk672569">
http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">You can download the software and resources from
<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/" id="LPlnk40423">
http://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/in-your-classroom/</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">I want to thank all colleagues who worked to develop these educational resources and make it available for everyone.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Best wishes,</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Suchith</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Suchith Anand</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Chief Scientific Adviser </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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