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Africa GIS Conference, Dakar, Senegal (3-7 November 2003) 
Sivas Govender, S’bonisile Zama, Craig Schwabe and Adlai Davids in front of the Africa GIS 2003 banner in the main auditorium of the Le Meridian Conference centre in Dakar. | The GIS Centre sent three representatives to the Africa GIS conference. Staff that attended this very important conference that had NEPAD and the provision of geoinformation as its theme was Adlai Davids, Craig Schwabe and S’bonisile Zama. GIS Centre staff presented four papers and these were: -
Keynote presentation by Craig Schwabe: Between Poverty and Prosperity – The New Development Agenda for Africa -
GIS, Health and NEPAD: The role of spatial information in meeting a key social priority (Adlai Davids) -
The Development of Labour Centre GIS in South Africa (S’bonisile Zama) -
Experiences from the SADC Development GIS project in accessing information and its contribution to developing a spatial information system for NEPAD (Craig Schwabe, Clever Mafuta and Stanley Mubako) The conference was a great success and enjoyed by all that attended it. Many new friends and contacts were made with geoinformation specialists from across the continent. The papers presented by members of the GIS Centre were well received and gave a reflection of the work that is being done in South Africa and SADC. Many opportunities for collaboration were identified that will hopefully come to fruition before the next Africa GIS conference in 2005, which is to held in South Africa. A special thanks to EIS-Africa for assisting S’bonisile Zama with sponsorship to attend the conference.
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