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Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

Newsletter. December 2003

Contents
Web mapping: making geoinformation more widely available
Distinguished academics to visit GIS Centre
NEPAD: An important focus area for geoinformation
WHO Minimum Data Set (MDS) on ageing and older persons in Africa
Labour centre GIS: a foundation for the country's human resources development strategy
Where are all the pension pay points?
SADC GIS – a geoinformation foundation for the region
Impact of government programmes
New and proposed GIS data sets
Africa GIS Conference, Dakar, Senegal (3-7 November 2003)
Researching innovative methods in dissemination geoinformation: the pilot democracy and governance atlas

 

WHO minimum data set on ageing and older persons in Africa

The GIS Centre coordinated a sub-Saharan project on ageing and older persons in Africa for the World Health Organisation (WHO) that involved Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The objective of the project was to identify sources of data to populate a set of ageing indicators produced by the WHO. Great disparities in accessing the data and being able to manipulate the data sets were identified, which will be the subject of a scientific paper.

 
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