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Transcript: English(auto-generated)
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Thank you so much Professor Maria Brobelli and I'd also like to express my gratitude to OSU and FOSWG 2022 in Ferente. Before I go, as you can see right here, that I'm the very little man and there
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is a very superman and superwoman right there as a co-chair who are serving voluntarily for over the last six years. So I'd like to invite them to come over here to actually greetings to everyone. Professor Kijun Lee from Pusan National University, please come on the podium.
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All right, so I'm very happy to be here at the very prestigious event of the open source software community. I'm Kijun Lee working at Pusan National University and has been serving as one of the co-chairs
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of UN OpenJS Initiative. As Maria told, this initiative was started six years ago and our activity is mainly based on the open source geospatial software like QGIS, GeoNode, PostGIS, GeoPaparazzi,
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and Qfield, OpenDRAWMap, OpenStreetMap, etc. So without your tremendous contribution, we couldn't make one single step.
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So I really appreciate your effort and thank you very much. Thank you Professor Lee. I also like to invite Professor Maria Brobelli to the podium for her greetings. Thank you.
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Okay, so thank you. Now I'm here as part of this initiative. So I'm a professor at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, but I'm also one of the persons of OSGEO active within this initiative. And I want just to remember that OSGEO has contributed in the last years since the beginning
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of the initiative, at least with the software obviously, but also directly with the Geo4ALL for providing courses to many, you will see in the presentation, to many people of the
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staff of UN, specifically on QGIS and PostGIS. And also with the challenges that were sponsored by the board of director of OSGEO. So OSGEO is really part of this initiative and I think that I want to also say to thank
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all the people that were involved in those years. Okay, and now back to you. Thank you so much. It was, as far as I remember, that it was like 2015 that we actually had a partnership
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with OSGEO that actually inspired us to build this UN Open GIS in 2006. So I must actually express that our gratitude to OSGEO as well as the Geo4ALL and also
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Open GIS from the Republic of Korea, and thank you so much for that. United Nations was created by the member state and this is a preamble of the United
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Nations, with the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind. So they decided to actually have a mandate to maintain international peace and security,
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to promote economic and social development, and also to promote and protect human right. Peace and security is not that actually, you know, simple kind of issue that over
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the whole decade we have made a lot of challenges, but also we are continuously solving many of the problems by the United, the member state, to actually tackle on this one. One of the important aspects is the sustainable development, as meant by the whole member
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state of the United Nations, social and economic development is a key foundation for the people's, you know, enhancing people's life qualities and so on and so forth. To support this one, UN geospatial means the geospatial professional who's serving
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as an international civil servant in the United Nations, in headquarters in New York, but also here in Italy we have a United Nations global service center in Brindisi, as well as that many countries, they actually instead of the UN field operation, they are the
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ones at the United Nations geospatial who actually agreed to have a vision to support peace and security pillar, human right, sustainable development, humanitarian aid, international law, by universal use of the geospatial information to underpin and support
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a mandate and operation of the United Nations for a better world. Also, they determined to build up the strategy to how they like to achieve the goal, particularly first goal is, you know, building the fundamental data methodology, tool and
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service that can actually be fulfilled to support a primary mandate of the United Nations. And secondly, they like to be adding value by analytics, innovative ideas and tools and data
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and so on and so forth, so that they can actually be enhancing more informed decision-making and better, you know, operation and so on and so forth. Another important aspect of the third goal is to actually working together with the
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UN, as the UN is not a small organization, it's very big in even in the UN secretariat, but also with the whole UN family, UN, you know, agencies and funds and programs. So how we can actually deliver as one is a key goal for the United Nations geospatial.
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And fourth, it's not only within the UN system, but also we like to actually work with you, with the nation, with the contributing partner, with the NGO, with the academia, with the volunteer community to deliver as one, to tackle the,
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or to solve the many of the challenges that we are facing with. So the UN geospatial actually are delivering and asked to delivering and providing support and services full spectrum of the geospatial aspect, from the basic to the a lot of different
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kind of analysis and also, you know, kind of the projection, image intelligence aspect and change detection, monitoring and so on and so forth, day-to-day life of the peacekeepers
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aspect and so on and so forth. These are the kind of the broad sense of the spectrum that what UN geospatial is asked to deliver. So this is kind of one slide that you can actually easily see in the time of the crisis, whether it is a natural disaster,
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climate changes or man-made disaster, the accurate geospatial information is a key and also a suitable GIS tools are also very much needed for supporting those respond on the ground and the local community and global citizen.
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That's why the UN Open GIS was created by the member state contributing partner, by the, you know, international organization, academia and as well as at the NGO
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and also private sector. So all everybody come together toward how we can promote, advocate and mainstream the hybrid geospatial technology for enhancing UN operational capability and for supporting developing countries' geospatial capacity
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building. This is what our vision of the UN Open GIS initiative. Another important aspect because there are so many challenges than what we have a solution.
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There are so many, you know, requirements compared with what we have tools. So current tools, whether that is open source or proprietary, are not sufficient to support. So why not? We can actually be harmonized as many as possible to solve the problem.
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So that is what we brought up as an idea with the leadership of the co-chair and many of the contributing partner to actually adopt that hybrid GIS platform is the way that we can move forward. So let's coexist two different kinds of software stack and not competing but also
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complementing each other to maximum access the most suitable GIS tool for the demand at very, you know, time on demand to fulfill their operational requirement in very much
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flexible and cost effective manner. And also UN Open GIS has been setting up as a governance structure for six, actually seven, but one is going to be not necessarily retiring
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as merging to the others. So from the green top left side, working group one is hybrid GIS platform to harmonize all various different modes to be ready to use by any moment of the demand and working group two is a capacity building that, you know, actually train, educate,
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knowledge sharing and so on and so forth. And then working group three was just analysis which is actually facing out to merging with the, you know, GeoAI of the working group five.
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So working group four, you know, data collection and working group five as mentioned that geospatial artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as geoanalytics. And working group six is open drum map that I will explain further and 3D perspective.
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Working group seven is UN vector tile toolkit that how we can actually be deliver the information within a very thin communication network and so on. So I like to actually go through briefly about some of the activities and projects that you can see that what kind
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of spectrum that we are working on it. The first one, working group one is actually focusing on hybrid GIS architecture as mentioned that is to consider the best support to the UN demand and which will integrating the geodatabase and complement the system to serve all of the
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demand, all of the need and which we consider is very much cost effective and flexible, but also scalability is another key aspect and innovative and easy to transfer the knowledge and technology to the, you know, developing country as well. Working group two make a very
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successful and who actually build a lot of the capacity in UN where UN doesn't actually have much use of the open source geospatial over the last, you know, six years ago. I mean that now
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we many of our UN geospatial colleagues therefore actually know and very friends with you and all of the aspect not only in a solution but also being as a network as friends and colleagues. And these are the biggest achievement by the working group two capacity building.
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Working group three made a very huge job to bring that a lot of analytics solution into the United Nations through different kind of the platform. Initially it was a unique kind of the platform. Now because many of are using the QGIS as a, you know, kind of
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usual desktop solution, so it has a plug-in, many of the analytics solutions develop into the QGIS plug-in and so on and so forth. And working group five is focusing on GeoAI as mentioned
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there and also are going to be merging with the geo-analytics. They actually have done a lot of, you know, the motivation and the building to how we can actually move toward the next generation and how we can actually use the technology in a more innovative way to do so.
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And there is, as you can see that the QR code, there is an ongoing challenges in Hekaton and read by Professor Maria Brovelli and our colleague of Thomas and Mr. Zhongxin Chen. I think it's somewhere here I guess. Yes. And another important one, we are not only just focusing to, you know,
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something to develop by ourselves to make us kind of a silo or duplication, but we identify very useful kind of technology that already been developed and building the community by the
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OpenDRAW map. So we build up the partnership with OpenDRAW map that we believe and we already have done that some of the pilot to understand about that how we can best use of them into the UN operation. So we have done a number of the exercise and many of the UN
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operation in the field are demanding to employ such kind of the proven technology as well. And UN vector target is very interesting topic that as you might be aware that in many of the location in the UN field mission means our, you know, friends of the
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army, the country, a neighboring country, they are very much suffering of the not to having power. No power that means no internet, no Wi-Fi and so on and so forth. So very, they have to rely on very thin kind of communication network. So the vector tile is a tackle
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the how we can actually be condensing and compacting the data that can be effectively cost efficient way to deliver to the end users and so on and so forth. So these are the very good, but also for those time of the of the crisis like, you know, disaster at the time the
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power failure is there and no communication network. So we try to find a way very handy mobile GIS solution. They can actually be enhancing, improving the communication among the
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people that who are already in the track by the natural disaster and so on and so forth. Very interesting story of the indoor GIS is actually a pioneering by our dear co-chair professor is to find a way to help out those visually impaired person
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to be navigated or to be actually easily access this auditorium without seeing. So it's very important to be actually build this kind of capacity and have done that number of the
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concept in the United Nation headquarter in New York and then see that how we can actually be expand them to the other UN facility first. One of the one as mentioned there is a SMASH and GEO Paparazzi and tube field and COBOL toolbox over the last few years that we have
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done that the pilot project to to see whether that is really useful for the field operational condition. So we we determined that all of them has some of the different kind of pros and cons but they are all fulfilled to be used by the UN colleague on the field and many of the
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field operational demand. So one of them is SMASH that we like to be actually be from the pilot project and real in the implementation in the in UN mission in Congo. So that currently is moving
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together with our developer our you know technical supporter from the Brindiji as well as that the field mission that our colleague Eppa and Rodwell is working together with Sylvia. One of the successful stories on the story map though there are many different
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kind of solution we really like to be build up the huge case by the open source to deliver story map kind of the platform for the UN field mission in order to
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increasing enhancing better communication between among the people of the of the nation and so on so forth particularly for the people as as a you know beneficiary with the donor sometimes they don't know what was happening how it works and and so on so forth this is a
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very good kind of agenda and topic that we can put on the story project. So I thanks to our colleague from the UN mission in South Sudan and Aqaba is here I guess I don't know I cannot see because it's very shiny right here though but I thank you so much to the Aqaba but also
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thanks to the our colleague and partner Jio Solution that who actually have done excellent job over the past you know months and so on and so forth. One of the successive stories that during the time of the challenge in Morrison particularly for the flooding
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and also kind of the challenge of the risk to the people we open are facing the cloud free a cloud kind of covering on the over the satellite imagery which actually be very much limiting us to make maximum use of the satellite or optical imagery from the space.
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So that's why I thanks to the government of Finland who actually offer and contribute to the you know this project through the our colleague of the GISPO. I think so Pekka is around here Pekka can you raise your hand okay Pekka I can see you so Pekka and his team actually
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together with our colleague from UN mission in AVA. Is it UN mission AVA? Yeah so they are working very closely together with the Pekka's team GISPO to come up with the
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you know methodology of the cloud free satellite imagery they can actually be very much handful to support the you know on available kind of the satellite imagery.
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Now I like to actually draw your attention that as mentioned that we are very much committed to maximum fully utilize of the open source kind of solution not only software but also data and other knowledges and so on and so forth. So I consider that this
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community as a UN Open GIS initiative is a kind of conduit to addressing all of our need all of our you know solution that you already been provided to the UN community in large
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but also not only that but also partner community for the UN operation of the UN operation but also importantly that we are also able to be introduced through various different kind of joint project or UN project to the UN you know to the developing country. In this way
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that we may be able to play some role to providing your excellent work and experience they can be available by the people that who are not yet to be know about you. So I hope that
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this might be the kind of the good role that we may be able to play for all of us. And we actually gathered in 2019 in Bucharest and due to this unexpected kind of pandemic now in 2022 we actually gather again to make step forward. I thank you so much. Thank you.