[OSGeo Africa] FOSS GIS business opportunity

[Gavin Fleming]

I presented on FOSS GIS to the Gauteng GIS forum yesterday. Keep your
eyes open for a tender in about a month's time to develop a module of
the Gauteng Provincial Government GIS. Their system is Oracle spatial +
ESRI and they will consider a FOSS solution for this module. This is an
opportunity to show what FOSS GIS can do...

 

To continue on this thread, what do you think of a web-based
'clearinghouse' of such FOSS GIS business opportunities?

 

 Gauteng is the smallest province in South Africa yet it is our economic
heartland.  The Gauteng gov GIS forum consists of Provincial Directorate
GIS departments as well as Metro and municipal GIS departments from
across the province. They currently use no FOSS GIS anything, but the
government FOSS policy will ensure that this situation changes. A big
need seems to be for guidance on change management from proprietary to
FOSS. 

 

regards

 

Gavin Fleming MSc

Senior GISc and Sustainable Development Researcher 

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