Singapore
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) will work with the Ministry of Education (MOE), industry and training institutions to boost the supply of geospatial professionals in Singapore.
Law Minister K Shanmugam said for a start, basic Geographic Information System (GIS) courses have been arranged for public sector officers.
The law minister (not sure why that position is involved) expects growth in geo in Singapore to match that worldwide, expected to be 8% this year.
Solomon Islands
The permanent secretary [of Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, John Harunari] stresses the overall aim of the GIS training was to assist the ministry staff and partners to be better facilitated with the skills and knowledge in GIS.
"And to make sure we have effective development interventions with a strong result focused base committed to our people needs," Mr Harunari said.
The GIS training is part of the capacity building project though the National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI) ACP, EU-S&T Actions (Solomon Islands) which PNG, Solomon islands and Vanuatu are party to.
I do hope there's a short term goal to use GIS in the short term for a project.
US
Jim Miller, a lecturer in SUNY Cortland’s History Department, needs help with a project he started with a graduate assistant in 2009. The “Social Studies and History Alumni at Work” project visually displays the locations of the department’s graduates on New York State, United States and world maps.
The process involves contacting alum to determine where they landed after graduation, then putting stickers on three different National Geographic Maps.
Alison Cleary, a former graduate assistant who obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the College, took over the map project for the 2010-11 academic year after Bertrand [who started it] graduated. Cleary said the giant map display serves as a reminder of the places she can travel with a SUNY Cortland degree.
“You spend four years here,” she said. “Seeing the maps every day reminds you of all of the opportunities that await you and all of the things that you can do.”
