[OSGeo Africa] SDI-Africa - GIS & remote sensing news in Africa - October 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. 
The October 2007 issue includes (among many other items):
http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n10.pdf
- Congo-Kinshasa: Production des cartes communautaires - Dix- huit experts formés
- Master Land Use Planning in Rwanda
- University of Zimbabwe cancels Geoinformatics Programme as lecturers desert
- South Africa sets target date for creation of new national space agency
- Status of South African Address Standard (SANS 1883) 
- Scientific literacy for parliaments: an essential tool
- Approaches to analysing census data (South Africa) – new handbook 
- Assessing benefits of geographical information systems implementation
- Sustainability Atlas of the Western Cape 2006
- African Water Resource Database (AWRD) (inland fisheries and aquaculture) 
- HydroSHEDS tools- GIS tools for for hydrological processing 
- GeoNetwork opensource 2.1.0 released
- UN Spatial Data Infrastructure Transport database schema version 1.2
- Application of mobile GIS in disaster notification information management system (Zimbabwe)
- Towards spatial justice in urban health services planning (Dar es Salaam case study) 
- UN-SPIDER Workshop: “Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management and Emergency Response,” 9-12 December 2007, Khartoum, Sudan
- Sub-regional Workshop on Census Cartography and Management, 8-12 October 2007, Lusaka, Zambia; 12-16 Novembre 2007, Rabat, Maroc 
- LUMA-GIS free Internet-based distance learning Master’s program
- Cyberseminar on “Population Dynamics and Natural Hazards”, 29 October - 12 November 2007
- Call for papers - African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment  (AARSE) 2008 Conference
- Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) funding for conference participation
- U.S. - IALE Foreign Scholar Travel Award (FSTA) for the 23rd Annual Symposium of Landscape Ecology
- Call for student participation to the offical launch of International Year of Planet Earth
- IT Database /GIS Specialist, multiple duty stations, 9 Nile riparian countries (deadline 15 Oct)
- Vulnerability Analyst and Disaster Risk Management Analyst, Djibouti (deadling 16 Oct)
- Acacia Atlas 2005: mapping African ICT growth 
 
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 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 http://www.gsdi.org/newslist/gsdisubscribe.asp 
 
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.


       
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