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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 December 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/SDIAfricav6n12.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#0000ff size=2>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n12.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Algeria 'on track' to launch second earth observation satellite</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- National Water Information System in Tunisia</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Sudan Institutional Capacity Programme: Food Security Information for Action (SIFSIA)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Somalia Water and Land Information Management (SWALIM) Products Catalog</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Liberia: data system on country's mineral deposits released</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) to coordinate National Population and Housing Census</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Botswana Integrated Geographic Information System (IGIS) Project</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Automated e-mail based alert system warning of active fires in Madagascar</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Net-Map Toolbox – Influence Mapping of Social Networks</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Livestock Information Network and Knowledge System - Regional Forage Deviation Forecast for January 2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Spatial determinants of poverty in rural Kenya</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Uganda Atlas of HIV/AIDS Indicators 2004-05 </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Using remote sensing and GIS in the analysis of ecosystem decline along the River Niger Basin: the case of Mali and Niger</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Master in Geospatial Technologies - Grants available. Deadline: 15 Janaury 2008.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- TV Conference on JICA-Net Distance Learning Seminar - “RS/GIS Seminar for Kenya”</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Active Remote Sensing Symposium in Malawi, 6-7 December 2007, Mzuzu, Malawi</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 1st International Conference Geoinformation Technologies to Support Sustainable Development in Africa (GITSDA'2008), April 5-7, 2008, Tripoli, Libya</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Call for expressions of interest - Conference on Geospatial Sciences for Sustainable Development in Africa Global Dialogue on Emerging Science and Technology (GDEST) 2008, 17-19 March 2008, Cape Town, South Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 7th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE), 27-31 October 2007, Accra, Ghana</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Preliminary program for 10th International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastrucutre (GSDI-10) now online, February 25-29, 2008, St. Augustine, Trinidad</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Measuring village ICT in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2007</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Request for Expression of Interest (Consultancy Services) - Inventory of wetland resources in the Nile Basin. Deadline: December 31, 2007.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SDI-Africa 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 </FONT><A href="http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#800080>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp</FONT></A> <FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">. Regional newsletters for Latin
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There is also an SDI-Africa Email Discussion List, </FONT><A href="http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/sdi-africa" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#800080>http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/sdi-africa</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> , with intermittent news and announcements of opportunities (this email discussion list is separate from the SDI-Africa Newsletter list). The archives are accessible at: </FONT><A href="http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#800080>http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/</FONT></A> <FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">, and you can sign up to send and receive
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