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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 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. The September 2007<FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> issue includes (among many other items):</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><A href="http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n9.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#0000ff size=2>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n9.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Tunisian Association for the Digital Geographic Information (TADGI)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Launch of the Interactive Forestry Atlas of Cameroon (version 2.0) </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Sierra Leone - valuation of properties for local assessment & taxation purposes (Makeni City Council)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Nakuru (Kenya) free community environmental knowledge-sharing centre</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Tanzania - Strengthening a Livelihoods-Based Food Security and Nutrition Information System </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Multi-hazard risk assessment for disaster risk reduction and financing in Madagascar</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- ECA and WHO commission studies to launch Africa Health Infoway (AHI)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Reports from United Nations Geographic Information Working Group Coordination Meeting</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Call for abstracts - AGU2007- “Including Land use and Land Cover Change in Earth System Models” </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 9th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">21-30 August 2007</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- 11th Southern Africa Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-11), 13-14 September 2007, Maseru, Lesotho, </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 1st International Symposium GEOTUNIS2007, 15-17 November 2007, Tunis, Tunisia</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Map Africa 2007, 29-30 October 2007, Cape Town, South Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Call for proposals to use Italian Space Agency COSMO-SkyMed products</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- OOSTethys - ocean-science community using OGC standards to advance ocean-observing systems</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">- African presence in Second Life’s virtual 3D space </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Congolese pygmies use GPS to save trees</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Yiaku People prepare to map the Mukogodo forest, Kenya</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Integrating GIS in planning and implementation of malaria control indoor residual spraying in Zambia </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- British Ecological Society (BES) Building Capacity for Ecology Fund (deadline 15 October)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- TWAS Fellowships for Research and Advanced Training (deadline 1 October)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Consultancy - Mapping Ugandan Wetlands from Satellite Images (deadline 2 October)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Mapping governance - cross-country comparisons for 2006</SPAN></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">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 <A href="http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#800080>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp</FONT></A>. 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
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