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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:white'>Over 1000 students have already registered for the next course starting Feb 23- Mar 29, 2015 on "Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS". Register at </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="https://www.canvas.net/browse/delmarcollege/courses/cn-1681-intro-qgis" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";background:white'>https://www.canvas.net/browse/delmarcollege/courses/cn-1681-intro-qgis</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:white'>GeoAcademy </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";background:white'>https://foss4geo.wordpress.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:white'> and OSGeo Live </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";background:white'>http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:white'> are going to be the two key instruments that "Geo for All" </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.geoforall.org/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";background:white'>http://www.geoforall.org</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:white'> will be using to accelerate Openness in Geoeducation worldwide and the International Map Year 2015 (lead by the International Cartographic Association and supported by the United Nations) </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://internationalmapyear.org/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";background:white'>http://internationalmapyear.org</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:white'> is the opportunity we will be using to implement this action.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121'><br><br><span style='background:white'>GeoAcademy will not only expand geospatial education opportunities to thousands of students but more importantly by making all the lectures, tutorials available in Github under Creative Commons licence </span></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";background:white'>https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:white'> enables other educators globally to build up their own teaching resources to suit their requirements.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121'><br><br><span style='background:white'>We look forward to your participation for Openness in Geoeducation worldwide and successful International Map Year activities.</span><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>