Development in Free Software as engine of change
Almost everything is ready for the 7as gvSIG Latin America and Caribbean seminars, which will be held in Mexico.
We find valuable the gradual addition of public institutions, which for year have been controlled by proprietary software, a process in most situations started from the implementation of international financing projects that tend to be tied to the use of specific brands. Changing this is not easy, if we consider the weakness in the public administration in terms of the turnover of qualified human resources and the influx of piracy, which is the other driving force.
The fact that these events are organized from the academy is extremely valuable, in this case the Faculty of Geography of the UAEM.
As subject, it is using “Development in free software as engine of change“, quite appropriate for the Mesoamerican context, accustomed to hearing the term “development” and that recalls failed efforts to force schemes not adapted to the context. Moving the OpenSource model as an incentive to provide a meeting place for technicians, researchers, developers, experts and users in general, is an interesting point that until now no one has been promoting in this way. Local acceptance is expected to gradually generate a fabric that maintains a balance between sustainability and “profit”, which no one should fear and which, unfortunately, is necessary for everyone to win.
The topics are more than rich and useful for the entire Latin American context: electrical networks, remote archeology, road collisions, civil defense, criminal diagnosis, urban expansion. Surely the gvSIG Association is aware that so much wealth carries the risk of being atomized without a common thread that directs a strategic and intentional effort to develop solutions for generic use, without remembering that the problems in this context are almost the same.
Debating is good, exposing, teaching. It seems important to us that gvSIG is visible from successful use cases. We suggest that more force should be put into the ax of the systematization of experiences and processes, remembering that in these places the clean slate of institutional changes makes efforts lose the edge. Also because it is the ancestral custom of these lands to reinvent warm water, sometimes due to the lack of systematization, others due to pride.
Free geomatics is all the rage, and that's good. Beyond the geospatial areas, the academy has professionals who can bet on a strategic complement to the technical part, to land the spatial smoke on the heads of decision makers who take the instrumentation to public policies.
The appointment is August 26, 27 and 28. You have to hurry because although entry is free, space is limited.
For now I advance the papers that are distributed in two parallel halls:
Thursday August 27
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Application of gvSIG in environmental chemistry: georeferencing a pollution plume in a lagoon and assessing toxic human and environmental risk |
gvSIG in the implementation of the cartographic module of the Mobile Application of the National Knowledge Management Network on Climate Change |
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Bivariate coropléticos maps and their potential for the visualization of space-themed relations |
Java Mobile Application for geographic information retrieval |
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Determination of Potential Zones for Vegetable Species of Economic Importance in Mexico. Case study Temporary Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), by using gvSIG |
Development of a tool for the calculation of Astronomical Azimuth in gvSIG |
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Methodological proposal for the development of an explicit spatial sensitivity index |
Workflow for the publication of cartographic products from open sources |
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Identification of short circuits or proximity for the distribution and sale of agricultural products. A proposal with free software. |
Geographic Information System of the Municipality of Jesús María |
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Nano-geomarketing |
Project Repubikla. Mapping, visualization and download tool through From OSM |
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Determining the location of new distribution centers using an analysis application spatial, using the gvSIG geographic information system and the Pyomo optimization language |
GvNIX: Fast development of geoportals for visualization and data management |
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gvSIG na Gestão municipal dos usos multiplas no Complexo Estuarino Lagunar. Ilha Comprida-Cananéia / São Paulo / Brazil |
GvCity. Municipal inventory and citizen participation with free software. |
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Road management through gvSIG Roads |
Friday August 28
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Location of optimum points for the construction of infiltration wells in the western zone of the Federal District |
Script for gvSIG for criminal geographic targeting based on Rossmo's criminology algorithm |
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Estimating costs of direct tangible potential damages by Flood in Housing areas Of the State of Mexico 2000-2012. |
Characterization of a cellular automaton for the Representation of the urban landscape From Culiacán, Sinaloa. Mexico. |
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Design and implementation of a platform to support the Territorial management CONAFOR |
Python prototype for geospatial data modeling |
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Design and implementation of a Spatial Data Infrastructure as a basis for the Observatory of Environmental and Territorial Sustainability State of Sinaloa, Mexico |
Integration and implementation of a Geoportal on Health (GEO-HEALTH) through the use of free software and possibilities of use through gvSIG |
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Methodology for the monitoring of Urban sprawl Worldwide |
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Development of a GIS WEB in free software on Criminal diagnosis |
The National Employment Bank: A geographical perspective. Program of redistribution of the first job in Mexico through the concept of Time Bank. |
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Implantation of an Infrastructure of Spatial Data in IUCN Mesoamerica |
Usoção do gvSIG em Projetos de Defesa Civil no Vale do Ribeira - São Paulo / Brazil |
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Use of GIS in the study of Road collisions. Jujuy, Argentina |
Cooperative learning and popular education in GvSIG Community |
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Generation of Mapfile (.map) files for the creation of applications with MapServer through the support of gvSIG |
Prospecting Archaeological Remote In Mexico: The cases of Señorío de Palenque and El Tajín |
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Chronic Disease electrical networks With gvSIG Tio Pujio Electricity Cooperative |
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Hello,
A little correction. The headquarters of the conference is in the UAEM, not in the UNAM (although the UNAM is one of the organizations that supports the event).
Thank you for sharing the conference!