dear all, While this is an inter-National Mapping Agency knowledge sharing effort, http://www.agirn.org/nma , it seems likely that local institutions and NGOs would have useful information about equipment techniques and support arrangements to share.
It could also be a great subject for a BOF session at FOSS4G2008 to catch a selection of African mapping agency people. (And perhaps some OSGeo or GISSA members are already involved with this AGIRN?) ----- Forwarded message from Roger Longhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- >From the ISPRS Newsletter: <begins> At the Cambridge Conference, held from 15th - 20th July, at Univ. of Cambridge, UK, it was decided to develop two geospatial knowledge portals for National Mapping Agencies (NMAs) to exchange information. The first, to be developed by GSDI, will be a global portal which will include specific pages for NMAs. The second is an African Portal and is developed within AGIRN, developed by the South African Human Science Research Council (HSRC) and EIS Africa. Participants at the Cambridge Conference, led by Ordnance Survey, agreed to support the portal, and the Joint Board of geospatial Information Societies (JBGIS) agreed to coordinate the portal, and help to populate it. I am writing now on behalf of JBGIS Committee for Capacity Building in Africa to ask you to support the AGIRN portal by providing reports or documents which may be of use to African NMAs and by posting details of any support that you may be able to provide in the way of training, consultancy or equipment. You can do this by visiting the website: http://www.agirn.org/nma and entering the information. I am also writing to all NMAs globally to ask for their support and contribution in order to assist African NMAs. Information provided may be shared with the GSDI portal to reduce duplication. If you have any questions on comments on AGIRN please contact Gina Weir-Smith at HSRC [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Ian Dowman, Chair JBGIS <ends> It would be good if list members could also spread this message within their organisations and local NMA contact points. Kind regards Roger Longhorn EGIP Archive: http://www.ec-gis.org/egip/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
