{"id":17720,"date":"2025-07-21T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/?p=17720"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:14:32","slug":"ogc-wins-best-geospatial-enabler-award-at-fossee-national-geospatial-awards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/announcement\/ogc-wins-best-geospatial-enabler-award-at-fossee-national-geospatial-awards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"OGC Wins \u2018Best Geospatial Enabler Award\u2019 at FOSSEE National Geospatial Awards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are delighted to share that the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been honored with the <strong>\u2018Best Geospatial Enabler Award\u2019<\/strong> at the <strong>National Geospatial Awards 2025<\/strong>, organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/fossee-iitb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FOSSEE<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/school\/indian-institute-of-technology-bombay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award was presented during a ceremony held on <strong>17th July 2025<\/strong> at <strong>IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India<\/strong> and was received on behalf of OGC by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/harshamadiraju\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Harsha Vardhan Madiraju<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Best-Geospatial-Enabler-Award-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"National Geospatial Awards 2025\" class=\"wp-image-17721 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The awards were conferred by <strong>Shri A. S. Kiran Kumar<\/strong>, Former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>FOSSEE (Free\/Libre and Open Source Software for Education)<\/strong> project, under the <strong>National Mission on Education through ICT<\/strong> (Ministry of Education, Government of India), promotes the adoption of FLOSS tools in academia and research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in its second edition, the National Geospatial Awards have expanded to recognize <strong>international agencies <\/strong>that contribute meaningfully to India\u2019s national development and align with the <strong>National Geospatial Policy 2022<\/strong> and <strong>Indian Space Policy 2023<\/strong>. These awards aim to encourage best practices such as open standards that support adoption and innovation within Indian ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After thoughtful deliberation with organizing partners, the jury selected OGC for the <strong>\u2018Best Geospatial Enabler Award\u2019<\/strong> in recognition of its sustained contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FOSSEE-National-Geospatial-Awards-2025-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Best Geospatial Enabler Award\" class=\"wp-image-17722\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We at OGC thank the Jury and the FOSSEE Team for this honor. This award is dedicated to the <strong>OGC Members and the broader community in India<\/strong> who are advancing open standards-based innovation, supporting national policies and missions, building open geospatial data infrastructures, and enabling impactful data exchanges as part of India\u2019s digital public infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to share that the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been honored with the \u2018Best Geospatial Enabler Award\u2019 at the National Geospatial Awards 2025, organized by FOSSEE, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. The award was presented during a ceremony held on 17th July 2025 at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India and was received on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[414,415],"class_list":["post-17720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","tag-national-geospatial-awards","tag-ogc-award"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19965,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720\/revisions\/19965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}