Uzbekistan
A South Korean Economic Cooperation Development Fund loan of $15 million will be used to set up a GIS in Uzbekistan. It's part of $155 million package of development loans.
- Central Asia Newswire
Zambia
GOVERNMENT has developed a Web-Based Spatial data infrastructure system embedded in the Zambia Preparedness and Response Information Management System (ZAPRIS) aimed at enhancing early detection of natural disasters in the country.
There's also work on a risk hazard map (natural and manmade disasters.
- The Times of Zambia
India
HUBLI: Samaj Parivartana Samudaya (SPS) has urged the Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) to use GPS (global positioning system) to mark maps pertaining to mining leases and the extent of encroachments by mining firms in Bellary district in order to make it a perfect document.
The original document was made using a total station; the argument is that GPS would be more accurate.
- Times of India
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China
China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has just been recently renamed as the State Bureau of Geographical Information, Surveying and Mapping, a move which according to Vice Premier Li Keqiang is one of the government’s efforts to support the development of the geographical information sector for the development of the country.
- FutureGov
The Phillipines
National Farmers’ Registry System (NFRS) will be launched in the provinces of Quezon, Leyte, and Bukidnon using Geographic Information System (GIS)
...According to the President, the system will be used for “precision agriculture”, wherein the government will collect information regarding farmers, including crops that they plant so that the government can come up with a comprehensive plan for them.
The pilot once fully expanded will help the government better serve farmers.
- FutureGov
India
Twenty-five per cent of the area in in Orang National Park is “most suitable” for rhinos, That according to a habitat suitability for rhinos by Pranjit Kumar Sarma, a GIS expert of Aaranyak that used satellite imagery of November 2008, was published in International Scholarly Research Network Ecology journal.
- The Telegraph India
Zambia
The new web-site is a new Map of Developments that visitors can see where regeneration and development is taking place in Zambia.
A note on the Google Maps based map notes that funding is not from taxpayers, but from supporters of the president.
- Lusaka Times
Australia
At the CeBIT conference in Sydney this week, the agency’s [Geoscience Australia] Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division chief, Andrew Barnicoat, said the use of Twitter in the US had shown the potential of the medium to detect such natural disasters.
- Computerworld
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