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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

 

New and proposed GIS data sets

The GIS Centre has added several new spatial data sets to its collection and these are described below.

  • Major government programmes
  • 2001 census
  • Geodemographics
  • Lottery spend
  • Political affiliation
  • Mindset data
  • Poverty gap and Gini coefficient
  • Labour centres
 
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