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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><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>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The October 2007<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/SDIAfricav6n10.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#0000ff size=2>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav6n10.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Congo-Kinshasa: Production des cartes communautaires - Dix- huit experts formés</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Master Land Use Planning in Rwanda</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- University of Zimbabwe cancels Geoinformatics Programme as lecturers desert</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- South Africa sets target date for creation of new national space agency</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Status of South African Address Standard (SANS 1883) </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Scientific literacy for parliaments: an essential tool</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Approaches to analysing census data (South Africa) – new handbook </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Assessing benefits of geographical information systems implementation</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Sustainability Atlas of the Western Cape 2006</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- African Water Resource Database (AWRD) (inland fisheries and aquaculture) </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- HydroSHEDS tools- GIS tools for for hydrological processing </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- GeoNetwork opensource 2.1.0 released</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- UN Spatial Data Infrastructure Transport database schema version 1.2</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Application of mobile GIS in disaster notification information management system (Zimbabwe)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Towards spatial justice in urban health services planning (Dar es Salaam case study) </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- UN-SPIDER Workshop: “Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management and Emergency Response,” 9-12 December 2007, Khartoum, Sudan</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Sub-regional Workshop on Census Cartography and Management, 8-12 October 2007, Lusaka, Zambia; 12-16 Novembre 2007, Rabat, Maroc </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- LUMA-GIS free Internet-based distance learning Master’s program</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Cyberseminar on “Population Dynamics and Natural Hazards”, 29 October - 12 November 2007</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Call for papers - African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) 2008 Conference</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) funding for conference participation</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- U.S. - IALE Foreign Scholar Travel Award (FSTA) for the 23rd Annual Symposium of Landscape Ecology</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Call for student participation to the offical launch of International Year of Planet Earth</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- IT Database /GIS Specialist, multiple duty stations, 9 Nile riparian countries (deadline 15 Oct)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Vulnerability Analyst and Disaster Risk Management Analyst, Djibouti (deadling 16 Oct)</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Acacia Atlas 2005: mapping African ICT growth </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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