[Tprisf] Fw: AfricaGIS 2013 and GSDI 14 Announcement and First Call for Papers

[Neduvoto Mollel]

Neduvoto Piniel Mollel 
National Herbarium of Tanzania
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--- On Wed, 3/6/13, Wanja Kinuthia <eafrinet at africaonline.co.ke> wrote:


From: Wanja Kinuthia <eafrinet at africaonline.co.ke>
Subject: AfricaGIS 2013 and GSDI 14 Announcement and First Call for Papers
To: "Carolyne Njoki-09" <njokizimmer at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 1:11 AM







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From: "Sives Govender" <sgovender at eis-africa.org>

Date: March 5, 2013 12:28:46 PM GMT+03:00

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Subject: AfricaGIS 2013 and GSDI 14 Announcement and First Call for Papers



Dear EIS-Africa, GSDI Association, International Geospatial Society, and SDI Community Members and Friends,


We are delighted to announce that the AfricaGIS 2013 and GSDI World Conference (GSDI 14)  will be jointly held at the UN Economic Commission for Africa Conference Center in Addis Ababa from November 4-8, 2013. The conference theme is Spatial Enablement in Support of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction.

 
AfricaGIS is the largest regularly occurring GIS conference in Africa with participants from the entirety of the continent. The GSDI World Conference has built a reputation for excellence in content and moves across the globe to offer geospatial specialists in all parts of the world opportunities to better exchange ideas and learn from global peers in building spatial data infrastructure.

 
This joint conference offers numerous opportunities for oral presentations and refereed and non-refereed publication outlets. We invite presentations covering the full range of practice, development and research experiences that advance the practice and theory of spatially enabling citizens, government, and industry.
 
"Primary organizers and hosts of this conference include the GSDI Association, EIS-Africa, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, EiABC - Addis Ababa University, and the International Geospatial Society."


This call supports two primary forms of publication:
(1) a conference proceedings with abstracts for all accepted submissions with refereed and non-refereed full papers for some of the submissions, and
(2) a pre-conference published book containing fully refereed articles. The tentative title is Spatial Enablement in Support of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction: Research, Development and Education Perspectives. The book will be published as an open access book in various eReader formats.


IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts:15 May 2013
Deadline for Submission of Full Papers for Refereed Outlets: 15 May 2013
Deadline for Submission of Full Papers for Non-refereed Outlet: 1 Sept 2013
Deadline for Full Conference Registration Payment for All Presenters     15 Sept 2013
Conference Dates: 4-8 Nov 2013

IMPORTANT LINKS
Joint Conference Call for Abstracts and Papers: http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/papercall.html
Conference Website: http://www.gsdi.org/gsdi14
Past GSDI World Conference Proceedings: http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiConferences
Past open access Books affiliated with the conference: http://www.gsdi.org/openaccessbooks
Other Important Dates: http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/dates.html


Please note that all EIS-Africa and IGS members (from selected developing nations) will receive greatly reduced registration fees to attend the conference and exhibition.
 
We look forward to seeing you in Addis Ababa in November 2013.
 
 
Regards
Sives Govender
Executive Director
EIS-AFRICA

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