The safest areas are likely to be software design and development, GIS jobs, networking and systems administration, software implementation analysis and database administration.
That's the word from Peter Sondegaard, head of research at IT research and advisory company Gartner predicts cloud services in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa). He told a recent analysts' European conference in Spain last week about the state of IT.
- Leader Live
A Jewish group in Jerusalem is using 21st-century technology to map every tombstone in the ancient cemetery on the Mount of Olives, a sprawling, politically sensitive necropolis of 150,000 graves stretching back three millennia.
The goal is to photograph every grave, map it digitally, record every name, and make the information available online. That is supposed to allow visitors to find their way in the cemetery, long a bewildering jumble of crumbling gravestones and rubble surrounded by Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. Beset for many years by neglect, it is among the oldest cemeteries in continuous use in the world.
- AP
All bus operators in Taiwan will be required to install a geographic information system (GIS) in all their vehicles by the end of 2012 following the passage of an amendment to transport industry regulations, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) announced Thursday.
The goal is to let passengers know when the bus is coming. I like this announcement because normally it'd say GPS and ignore any use of GIS. Sadly, I'll bet the goal was really to cite GPS.
- Focus Taiwan
Addressing the first ever WikiConferencein India, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales here Friday said the representation of maps on the free encyclopedia was in accordance with the ideas of its readers and editors and the founders were not the only ones to control the content.
As Wales spoke at Mumbai University's Fort campus, some Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) members staged a protest outside the campus, contending there was an "illegal" depiction of India's map on Wikipedia.
- India Times
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Oman has completed the first phase of development and management of pastoral resources using geographic information system (GIS) technology and remote-sensing, which has also helped to make digital maps of pastoral lands in Oman.
- Zawya
EU
The European Commission (EC) requested Bulgaria return 24.54 million euro of European Union agricultural funds. That's just a small part of the 530 million euro requested back from member states, including Denmark, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and the UK. Why? The repayment is due to "insufficient levels of on-the-spot checks, weaknesses in the Land Parcel Identification System-Geographical Information System (LPIS-GIS) and provision of inaccurate information and insufficient guidance to farmers with regard to area aid". Germany get some funds back!
- Sophia Echo
India
National Post Graduate College will introduce post-graduate diploma in geographical information system (GIS) and remote sensing, and retail management from the 2011-12 academic session.
- Times of India
The Indian government is reportedly studying the feasibility of giving value-added service (VAS) providers access to information related to the location of a cellphone as a part of the National Telecom Policy 2011.
- The Next Web
Canada
Jonathan Mark, Manager GIS and Topobase Support, Vancouver BC shares this news.
Wanted to let you know that the City of Vancouver has been named by BCBusiness Magazine as the Most Innovative Organization in British Columbia in 2010 for its Open Data Initiative. As this point in time, there are in excess of 125 datasets available for free download and more coming. Most of the datasets are spatially-based and are already available for viewing in VanMap, the City's online web mapping tool (http://vancouver.ca/vanmap). They are available in multiple formats and most are updated on a monthly basis. A recent addition is business licenses issued by the City.
A link to BCBusiness Magazine's announcement is available at http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/2011/04/04/city-of-vancouver.
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