Dear colleagues,
It is my great pleasure to introduce Victoria Rautenbach from the Centre of Geoinformation Science (CGIS) at the University of Pretoria (UP) in South Africa. as our GeoAmbassador . It is even more great pleasure to have another GeoAmbassodor Dr. Serena Coetzee
(the GeoForAll chair of Africa and who all of our colleagues will already know) who nominated Victoria for us. I have been always amazed and inspired by the work that Serena and colleagues have been doing in South Africa. I first met Serena at ICC Dresden
in 2013 where she also presented her ideas at the ICA Commission meeting of Open Source Geospatial Technologies . I have not yet got the opportunity to meet Victoria but I am aware of her great work and contributions to Open Principles in Geo Education. I
want to thank Serena for introducing to us a great colleague as our GeoAmbassodor of the month and sending us all the details of her excellent work and contributions.
Victoria is an enthusiastic contributor to open source / open data / open education work at University of Pretoria. She uses open source software, such as QGIS, GeoServer and PostGIS, in the modules that she teaches and is the first port of call for open source
software support for students. She engages students in open data events and has arranged a number of events to introduce geoinformatics to school children. More details of her excellent work at
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/11/geoambassador-of-the-month-victoria-rautenbach/
More details will be published at our newsletter later this month at
http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/
GeoForAll is a worldwide movement that provides immediate benefit to the world. We aim to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open
Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations.
I am truly inspired to understand more about the amazing work done by Victoria and colleagues at the University of Pretoria. We are proud to honour Victoria as our GeoAmbassodor and we are extremely grateful for her contributions to Geo for All.
Best wishes,
Suchith
Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org
GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science