June 2007 SDI-Africa newsletter

The June 2007 issue of the SDI-Africa newsletter has been released. 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 June 2007 issue includes (among many other items):

- AFREF Project: first GNSS reference station in Kenya established

- A new WebGIS platform for returnee monitoring in West Darfur

- East Africa establishes climate monitoring centre

- Geographic information and GIS capacities to support HIV/AIDS monitoring in Zambia

- Land Policy in Africa: a framework of action to strengthen land rights, enhance productivity and secure livelihoods

- SADC Regional Remote Sensing Unit website

- MDG Mapper: visualizing MDG progress in Africa

- UN Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport geo-database schema

- GISFish - Global Gateway to GIS, Remote Sensing and Mapping for Aquaculture and Inland Fisheries

- 2007 crop assessment tour summary in Zimbabwe and South Africa

- Modelling the spatial distribution of five natural hazards in the context of the WHO/EMRO Atlas of Disaster Risk

- Land Information Management Systems Training Course, 1-12 October 2007, Nairobi, Kenya (Deadline: 12 September 2007)

- Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System Fellowship programme in sea level science and applications 2007-2008 (Deadline: June 30, 2007)

- Open Society Institute (OSI) Tools for Open Society initiative (Deadline: June 30, 2007)

- 2007-2008 ProVention Consortium Research and Action Grants for Disaster Risk Reduction (Deadline: July 15, 2007)

- Nile-Transboundary Development Facility (NTDF) Competitive Announcement (Deadline: June 15, 2007)

- Postgraduate Training Fellowships for Women Scientists in Sub-Saharan Africa or Least Developed Countries (LDC) at Centres of Excellence in the South (Deadline: July 31, 2007)

- Call for papers: 10th International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI-10), St. Augustine, Trinidad, February 25-29, 2008, http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/ <http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/> )

- Society for Conservation GIS-Kenya Conference - Geospatial Technology for Biodiversity Conservation and Management, Nairobi, Kenya, July 18-20, 2007

- Changements Climatiques et Adaptation en Afrique - Le Rôle des Technologies Spatiales, Alger (Algérie), les 25, 26 et 27 juin 2007

- Forests of the Congo Basin: State of the Forest 2006.