Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan has been involved in advancing Free and Open Source Solutions for Geoinformatics (FOSS4G) over the last three decades. He was one founding board of directors of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and served as its President during 2016-2017. He is actively involved in collaborative projects in Asia. Presently based in Japan as Professor of Geoinformatics at the School for Science, Osaka Metropolitan University. His research interest includes terrain analysis, Remote Sensing for change detection/prediction, machine learning and Web-GIS. He is also the team leader and member in several projects related to geospatial technologies sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology, Japan, Japan Science and Technology Agency and projects funded by private enterprises. Further details about his research contributions are available at https://researchmap.jp/read0048564?lang=en.