[OSGeo Africa] SDI-Africa - GIS & remote sensing news in Africa - August 2007

[Kate Lance]

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 http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp. Regional newsletters for Latin America/Caribbean and Asia/Pacific regions also are available. Please pass on this information to others who may be interested, and if you would like, sign up for the GSDI Association News List at
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There is also an SDI-Africa Email Discussion List, http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/sdi-africa, with intermittent news and announcements of opportunities (this email discussion list is separate from the SDI-Africa Newsletter list). The archives are accessible at: http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/, and you can sign up to send and receive messages at http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/sdi-africa.
 
The August 2007 issue includes (among many other items):
http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n8.pdf
- Libya Spatial Data Information Infrastructure website launched 
- Lancement du nouveau portail de l’Ingénieur Géomètre Topographe (Maroc)
- Kenya NSDI Newsletter (July 2007) highlights questions & answers from standards seminar 
- Guide to Open Data Licensing - for those who want to make their data open
- Expansion of industrial logging in Central Africa
- Satellite images and GIS supports conservation efforts in Virunga National Park, DRC
- Assessing the vulnerability to natural hazards on the provincial/community level in Mozambique: the contribution of GIScience and semote sensing 
- Flood water identification over the affected states of Sudan
- Horn of Africa natural hazard probability and risk analysis
- Aligning GIS to developmental objectives of a South African municipality 
- 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
- GIS seminars (South Africa) on "Core data set maintenance and Interoperability awareness” 
- Mining Cadastre for Nigeria
- Conflict-Free Land-Use Awareness Workshop, 6-7 August 2007, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
- 20th Climate Outlook Forum for the Greater Horn of Africa (GHACOF20), 5-7 September 2007, Nairobi, Kenya
- 2nd Humanitarian Development Summit, 17-19 October 2007, Nairobi, Kenya
- IAA Regional Conference on Space for Africa: Path to Knowledge and Development, 3-5 December 2007, Abuja, Nigeria
- Course on Application of GIS for Transportation, September 3-14, 2007, Dar e Salaam, Tanzania 
- IEEE GEOSS Workshop - The User and the GEOSS Architecture XVII - Earth Observation to Benefit Water and Health, 15-16 September 2007, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Training Course: River Basin Modelling, September 3-5, 2007, Johannesburg, South Africa
- IUCN-NL Ecosystem Grants Programme (EGP). Deadline: 1 September 2007.  
- British Ecological Society (BES) Overseas Bursary. Deadline: Deadline: 1 September 2007.
- Lincoln Institute Planning and Urban Forum Research Fellowship 2007-2008. Deadline: 15 September 2007.
- West African Research Center Travel Grants. Deadline: 15 September 2007. 
- Job: Policy and Technical Advisor on Sustainable Land management and Partnership Building, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Deadline: 16 August 2007.  
- 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.

Regards,
 
Kate Lance, SDI-Africa Newsletter Editor


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