[GSDI Legal Econ] [Fwd: [SDI-Africa] FW: SDI Status in Africa]

[Roger Longhorn]

For those who missed it on the SDI-Africa mail list, I thought some of 
you might like to keep a 'watching brief' on how this African SDI study 
progresses.

Kind regards

Roger

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Subject: 	[SDI-Africa] FW: SDI Status in Africa
Date: 	Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:06:42 +0300
From: 	Craig von Hagen <craigvonhagen at yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: 	craigvonhagen at yahoo.co.uk
To: 	<sdi-africa at lists.gsdi.org>


 
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*From:* Prestige Makanga [mailto:MKNPRE005 at uct.ac.za]
*Sent:* 27 June 2008 11:45
*To:* aampofo at hotmail.com
*Cc:* Julian Smit
*Subject:* SDI Status in Africa


Greetings

 

The Geomatics Department at the University of Cape Town in South Africa 
is conducting a study on the Status of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) 
implementation in Africa. The research is being done by Dr. Julian Smit 
and Prestige Makanga. The purpose of the exercise is to evaluate the 
extent to which Africa and African Governments have realised the need to 
prioritize SDI initiatives. A lot of research effort has gone into 
investigating the importance of SDI for National and Sustainable 
development and the benefits of SDI are now generally known. Despite 
such clear benefits, SDI implementation in Africa is being done at a 
seemingly slow pace. Would this mean that the benefits are known by the 
"wrong people", or another implementation strategy needs to be adopted? 

Evaluating the Status of SDI implementation in the African continent 
requires a through review at national level. We would like to take 
advantage of SDI implementation agencies in different countries to get 
an overview of the Status and also identify possible reasons for the 
slow implementation in different countries. On these grounds, we 
therefore request for you assistance by providing us with information on 
the current SDI status in your country. This can take the form of 
existing documentation on recent and past SDI events in your country. If 
you are not the right person to address this issue but are in a position 
to link us up with the relevant people, please feel free to do so. After 
your response, you will receive a questionnaire that will be the main 
basis of our analysis.

We are looking forward to hearing from you soon. Please feel free to 
carbon copy your responses to Dr Smit on Julian.Smit at uct.ac.za 
<mailto:Julian.Smit at uct.ac.za>

Kind Regards

 

 

Prestige T Makanga
Geomatics Postgraduate Research
Menzies Building
University Of Cape Town
Rondebosch
7700
Tel: +2721 650 3183
Cel: +27836861952
alt email: ptmakanga at gmail.com