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<DIV>Spatial Data Infrastructure — Africa (SDI-Africa) is a free, electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Africa. It has been published monthly since May 2002 and has wide circulation across Africa. Each issue highlights recent activities, provides details about available data and tools, and includes notices about upcoming training, employment and funding opportunities, and events. The aim is to strengthen national SDI initiatives and support synchronization of regional geospatial activities. Past and current SDI-Africa newsletters are accessible at the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association website at <A href="http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#800080>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp</FONT></A>. Regional newsletters for Latin America/Caribbean and Asia/Pacific regions also are available. Please pass on this information to others who may
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<DIV>The August 2007<FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> issue includes (among many other items):</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><A href="http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n8.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#0000ff size=2>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n8.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Libya Spatial Data Information Infrastructure website launched </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Lancement du nouveau portail de l’Ingénieur Géomètre Topographe (Maroc)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Kenya NSDI Newsletter (July 2007) highlights questions & answers from standards seminar </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Guide to Open Data Licensing - for <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">those who want to make their data open</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Expansion of industrial logging in Central Africa</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Satellite images and GIS supports conservation efforts in Virunga National Park, DRC</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Assessing the vulnerability to natural hazards on the provincial/community level in Mozambique: the contribution of GIScience and semote sensing </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Flood water identification over the affected states of Sudan</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Horn of Africa natural hazard probability and risk analysis</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Aligning GIS to developmental objectives of a South African municipality </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Papers and presentations from Decision Makers Meeting Good Administration of Land: Land Administration for Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth, 7-8 December 2006, Windhoek, Namibia</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- GIS seminars (South Africa) on "Core data set maintenance and Interoperability awareness” </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Mining Cadastre for Nigeria</DIV></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Conflict-Free Land-Use Awareness Workshop, 6-7 August 2007, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 20th Climate Outlook Forum for the Greater Horn of Africa (GHACOF20), 5-7 September 2007, Nairobi, Kenya</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 2nd Humanitarian Development Summit, 17-19 October 2007, Nairobi, Kenya</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- IAA Regional Conference on Space for Africa: Path to Knowledge and Development, 3-5 December 2007, Abuja, Nigeria</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Course on Application of GIS for Transportation, September 3-14, 2007, Dar e Salaam, Tanzania </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- IEEE GEOSS Workshop - The User and the GEOSS Architecture XVII - Earth Observation to Benefit Water and Health, 15-16 September 2007, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Training Course: River Basin Modelling, September 3-5, 2007, Johannesburg, South Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- IUCN-NL Ecosystem Grants Programme (EGP). Deadline: 1 September 2007. </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- British Ecological Society (BES) Overseas Bursary. Deadline: Deadline: 1 September 2007.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Lincoln Institute Planning and Urban Forum Research Fellowship 2007-2008. Deadline: 15 September 2007.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- West African Research Center Travel Grants. Deadline: 15 September 2007. </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Job: Policy and Technical Advisor on Sustainable Land management and Partnership Building, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Deadline: 16 August 2007. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Consultancy: Technical Assistance to the SADC African Transboundary River Basin Support Programme Case of the Basin of the Orange-Senqu River in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. Deadline: 17 August 2007.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Kate Lance, SDI-Africa Newsletter Editor</DIV></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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