Georg Gartner (ICA) and Jeff McKenna (OSGeo) shake hands to renew the ICA-OSGeo Memorandum of Understanding at FOSS4G-Europe in Como, Italy, on 16 July 2015
Based on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ICA and OSGeo
signed in 2011, a real success story developed. The MoU acted as an umbrella for several activities coordinated by the
ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies under the chairmanship of Suchith Anand. The so-called
ICA-OSGeo Labs are focussing on the use of open source software for geoinformation management and cartography. In the meantime, more than 100 institutions have joined the initiative and it is still growing. Based on the unexpected high interest, Suchith Anand took this idea a step further and founded
Geo4All, which goes beyond open software and also includes the aim of having open access to education material, data and applications.
During the most successful FOSS4G Europe conference at Como, Italy, president of OSGeo Jeff McKenna and ICA President Georg Gartner renewed and edited the MoU, which can be found on wiki.osgeo.org.
– Georg Gartner
President of the International Cartographic Association
