GIS Development in Africa

[raghavan]

Hi Sanjay,

Thanks for the invitation to Map Arfica. I am
all tied up in activities in Asia. I  would suggest
Assefa or Peter to be at Map Africa and talk
about OSGeo at Map Africa.

Regards

Venka

Sanjay Kumar wrote:
> Dear Prof. Raghavan,
>  
> I take this opportunity to inform you that GIS Development has 
> committed itself to promote geospatial technologies in African 
> continent -  an initiative which needs global supoort as Africa is the 
> least developed region in the world and it is important to use GIS and 
> Remote sensing technologies in the overall development of the region.
>  
> We did introduce an African Edition of our magazine and proposed to 
> organise Map Africa conference on 20-22 November in Johannesburg. 
> Theme of the conference is "Building Geospatial Capacity and 
> Infrastructure in Africa" Department of Land (Survey Agency) and 
> Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Remote Sensing agency) 
> of South Africa are the Principal Sponsors of the conference. In 
> addition, the conference is co-sponsored by Human Science Research 
> Council.
>  
> I feel that Professional Societies like OSGEO shall take special care 
> of the needs of African region and in view of the same. We are 
> organising a special Panel Discussion on 'Open Source and 
> Interoperability' as part of Map Africa confernece and would like to 
> invite representative of OSGEO to be on the panel and promote the 
> OSGEO in Africa. I do understand about your busy schedule and would 
> appreciate your personal attention to our invitation.
>  
>  
> With kind regards
>  
> SANJAY KUMAR
> Chief Executive Officer
> GIS Development Private Limited
> G-4 Sector 39, NOIDA, India
> Sanjay.Kumar at GISdevelopment.net