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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In 2019,</span><span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Building upon this we are planning</span><span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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Details of </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">World Commons Week 2020</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> at
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I thank Prof. Charles Schweik (UMass Amherst, USA) who is lead organiser of the
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">World Commons Week 2020</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> for inviting GeoForAll community to share ideas.</span><span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I would like to invite short presentations (max 15 minutes)</span><span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">for this session on
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</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please email
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with title and abstract of the presentation by 25th August 2020. Selected presentations will be notified by 30 August 2020.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I thank Dr. Rafael Moreno and colleagues at the Open Source Geospatial Lab at University of Colorado, USA for hosting the GeoForAll mini-conference in support of World Commons
Week 2020. The recordings will be made available at the GeoForAll webinar channel at</span><span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I would to like to thank all educators worldwide who have made contributions to open education</span><span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[1].
Access to quality education and opportunities is key for getting rid of extreme poverty and enable broadly shared prosperity for all. We look forward to working and building collaborations with all interested on this open education mission.</span></p>
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