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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Forward from a very
long distribution list:</font><br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi J,</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">So you are not
aware of any Indigenous communities engaged with OSM
anywhere in Canada? It would be great if OSM could be
introduced to </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Indigenous
community members so they can help define a direction.
Since you have contacts, can you help doing
introductions? I am assuming you are part of the OSM
community already? How would you propose creating a
working group?</font></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Also can we move this
discussion to the OSM Canada mailing list? There is an
active discussion on the building initiative there. Maybe
others know about </font></font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Indigenous
activities already?</font> </font></font></p>
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On 2018-01-26 02:53 PM, J. Hackett wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Hi everyone,</p>
<p dir="ltr">I brought up a few issues surrounding Indigenous
engagement at the meeting in July.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There still remains no engagement with Indigenous
communities whatsoever. It is pertinent that if you want to
involve the Indigenous demographic that an Indigenous
Working Group be established to develop, plan, and engage
with communities in the spirit of truth and reconciliqtion,
especially in light of the recent TRC.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The 2018 Indigenous Mapping Workshop will be
hosted in Montreal. It might provide a good venue to truly
get the conversation/movement going forward.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Our tech partners, Google, Esri Canada, and
Mapbox, are working with us to develop geospatial capacity
building within communities; therefore, it could be a good
opportunity to bridge efforts with the 100+ communities that
will attend the event.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Feel free to reach out to me if there is interest
in any partnership with our programming in Montreal, QC.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks!</p>
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