Search the most relegvant web-based resources on Participatory GIS, Public Participation GIS and Community Mapping via a highly specialized Custom Search Engine reflecting knowledge and interests in Community Mapping, PGIS/PPGIS practice and science. Based ob Google-Coop technology it allows researchers and practitioners to freely collaborate in its development.

Spatial Data Infrastructure — Africa (SDI-Africa) is a free, electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Africa. Each monthly 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-Afr more...

Spatial Data Infrastructure — Africa (SDI-Africa) is a free, electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Africa.

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 initiative more...

Spatial Data Infrastructure — Africa (SDI-Africa), published monthly since May 2002, is a free, electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Africa. The January 2008 issue includes (among many other items):- Preliminary program for the 10th International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastrucutre (GSDI-10) now online, February 25-29, 2008, St. Augustine, Trinidad
- South Africa Space Agency Bill - December 2007
- Mauritius National Stat more...

The December 2007 issue includes (among many other items):
- Algeria 'on track' to launch second earth observation satellite
- National Water Information System in Tunisia
- Sudan Institutional Capacity Programme: Food Security Information for Action (SIFSIA)
- Somalia Water and Land Information Management (SWALIM) Products Catalog
- Liberia: data system on country's mineral deposits released
- Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) to coordinate National Pop more...

The following opportunity involves full grants including travel and
housing for students outside Europe wishing to attend the 18-month
international program in: MASTER IN GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES Universities of Münster (Germany), Jaume I (Spain), Nova de Lisboa
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Fundamental Requisites: Bachelor Degree equivalent in fields related to
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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 November 2007 issue includes (among many other items):
- MOU on Land Administration, Valuation and Management Information System for Mauritius
- Botswana National Geoinformation Conference, 26-30 November 2007, Gaborone, Botswana
- Atlas of the Vegetation of Madagascar
- Angola Agriculture Ministry promotes GIS for th more...

The Northern Negros Natural Park harbours the largest forested area on Negros Island and is home to many rare, endemic and endangered species. The participatory mapping exercise involved members of local communities, NGOs and LGUs and had also a training component aiming at building capacity in participatory NRM planning. The resulting 3-D model and derived maps will be used for natural resource planning and management. The area represent the major watershed of Bacolod and serves as many as ten more...

Bienvenidos a PPgis.net, la sección en español del Foro sobre Tecnologías y Sistemas de Información Geográfica Participativa. La creación de un espacio en español, a través de un DGroup formado por la comunidad de usuarios en Cartografía Participativa y Sistemas de Información Geográficos Participativos (SIG-P), pretende estimular el intercambio de información ya existente y hacer llegar el poder de los sistemas de gestión de información geoespacial a nivel local y comunitario. El more...

For Development practitioners willing to make use of Open Source GIS tools, this moodle eLearning space shares free modules and online courses about GIS as well as GIS FOSS solutions. It is a excellent We resource for getting started with GIS. Enrollment for Fall Courses is still open.