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<DIV><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 June 2008<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/SDIAfricav7n6.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#0000ff size=2>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav7n6.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Cameroon chapter of Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) launched</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Preparation of State of Nigerian Cities Report 2007/2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Migration dynamics in West Africa - two-year program funded by European Commission</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- North African Drought Alert System (Système Maghrébin d’Alerte à la Sécheresse (SMAS)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- South Africa National Space Agency Bill: Briefing </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- AfricaArray - A public-private partnership supporting geophysics training and research in Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Release of Global Map Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Latest African Geodetic Reference Frame (AFREF) Newsletter</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Africa, Atlas of Our Changing Environment - Launch on 10 June 2008 </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 22nd Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF 22), 28-29 August 2008, Nairobi, Kenya</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 5th EGU Alexander von Humboldt International Conference: Climate Changes and African Earth Systems – past, present and future, January 12-16, 2009, Cape Town, South Africa </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Guide for establishing a National Oceanographic Data Centre: 2nd revised version </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Beta release of Climate Mapper for SERVIR Viz</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Interactive global map of freshwater biodiversity</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- TerraLook Version 1.1 </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Release of AccessMod version 3.0</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Mangrove forest distributions and dynamics in Madagascar (1975–2005)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- A study of climate change and anthropogenic impacts in West Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Modelling susceptibility of coral reefs to environmental stress using remote sensing data and GIS models</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Long-term adaptation: selecting farm types across agro-ecological zones in Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Biodiversity Information Management Forum, 10-11 June 2008, Pretoria, South Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- FOSS4G Workshops and Labs, September 29 - October 3, 2008, Cape Town, South Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Open Mapping Africa 2008: a series of workshops in Fall 2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- CREATING - Training and research opportunities in socio-economic sciences (deadline 15 June)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation: Strengthening research capacity in developing countries (deadline 31 July)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Fellowships (deadline 18 July)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Nile Basin M.S. scholarship in areas relevant for water resources decision support system (deadline 15 June)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- South-South Cooperation in Disaster Risk Reduction (deadline 30 June)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Vulnerability to Hunger: Improving Food Crisis Responses in Fragile States (May 2008)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Global Monitoring Report 2008: MDGs and the Environment - Agenda for Inclusive and Sustainable Development</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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