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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Spatial Data Infrastructure — Africa (SDI-Africa) is a free, electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Africa. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The November 2007<FONT size=2> issue includes (among many other items):</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><A href="http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n11.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#0000ff size=2>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n11.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- MOU on Land Administration, Valuation and Management Information System for Mauritius</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Botswana National Geoinformation Conference, 26-30 November 2007, Gaborone, Botswana </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Atlas of the Vegetation of Madagascar </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Angola Agriculture Ministry promotes GIS for the management of the forest resources</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- GIS-based mineral title management in Namibia </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- African Geodetic Reference Frame (AFREF)-Nigeria Stakeholders Forum </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Uganda National African Water Resources Information Clearing House (AWICH) Training workshop</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- SDI-East Africa Consultation “Better Data Sooner”, October 24-25, 2007, Nairobi, Kenya</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Abstracts and presentations from 2nd African Leadership Conference Space Science and Technology for Sustainable Development</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Symposium Internationale - Contribution de la Télédétection et des SIG à la Prévention des Crises Armées en Afrique, 27-29 November 2007, Abidjan, Ivory Coast</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- International Workshop on Evaluating Climate Change and Development, 10-13 May 2008, Alexandria, Egypt</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- GMES-Africa technical workshop on Crisis Response and Monitoring for Security, 6 December 2007, Lisbon, Portugal</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Global Roads Data Workshop hosted by CIEISN at Columbia University</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- New book: Geoinformation for Development – Bridging the divide through partnerships</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) / UCGIS Virtual Seminar in public participation GIS (PPGIS)</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Strengthening Management for Impact (SMIP) in eastern & southern Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Mentoring Young Scientists for Innovative Application of Research and Development in Africa </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Call for Expressions of Interest - Development on the Move: Measuring and Optimizing the Economic and Social Impacts of Migration</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- International Community–University Research Alliance (CURA) Program</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Small Research Grants for African Scientists Engaged in Global Environmnetal Research </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- IFS/CGIAR Challenge Program on Water & Food Grants for young scientists from the Volta Basin</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Online registration now open for 10th Int’l Conference for Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI-10)</DIV>
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