[SDI-Africa] Fw: Fw: Happy 100th issue SDI-Africa newsletter!

[Mick Wilson]

Indeed, 100 issues is a big deal and important milestone, and the support 
of USAID, GSDI, the contributors and the editors must be recognized.

What I will do, though, is take this opportunity to throw back at you and 
this community is the question you raised when we were six months or so 
into the SDI-East Africa gig a few years back, and that is: where is there 
evidence that one more byte of data is now flowing because of this effort? 
And if there is, so what? What is the impact?

I took your comment at the time to be provocative but positive: to tout 
our achievements in terms of functional realities that managers and policy 
types can understand, not merely to be lauded by our technical peers.

Who in the SDI-Africa community can point the rest of us towards these 
real live, impactful best practice examples?

Mick Wilson
Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA)
United Nations Environment Programme
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Kate Lance <klance_remote at yahoo.com> 
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Thank you to everyone who has sent words of appreciation.  And I hope 
those on the list don't mind the 'flood' of emails.  I suspect after these 
kind words, the list will revert back to just me sending messages. :(
(you realize, of course, that I had to put in my two cents, and remind 
everyone that all are welcome, anytime, to share news, highlight an event, 
or point to an interesting report or article) 
 
Please note as well that the current SDI-Africa newsletter Editor is 
Gordon Ojwang? at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for 
Development (RCMRD) in Nairobi.  Thanks should go to him too for taking on 
the challenge and running with it!
 
Also, I'd like to emphasize that it has been GSDI Association who has 
supported the continued production of the SDI-Africa newsletter. Actually, 
the newsletter initially got off the ground with support from USAID, and 
then the GSDI Association stepped in after a couple of years, and has been 
committed to the effort ever since.  As projects come and go, it is a big 
deal that this newsletter is now in its 9th year.
 
Regards,
Kate
 
 
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: ephraim mageria <phrmmageria at yahoo.com>
To: Kate Lance <lancekt at aya.yale.edu>
Sent: Thu, May 6, 2010 1:33:36 PM
Subject: Re: [SDI-Africa] Fw: Happy 100th issue SDI-Africa newsletter!

SDI Africa,

Congratulations SDI Africa, what a good job Kate you are doing.
I am a fresh college graduate holding a diploma in Technology 
Geo-informatics from Kenya Polytechnic University College(Kenya). I have 
tried securing 
a job as a GIS Technician in different organisations but without much 
success, are there any organisations offering jobs to diploma graduates?

Kindly assist.

Regards,
Ephraim Mageria (Kenya) 

From: Kate Lance <klance_remote at yahoo.com>
To: SDI-Africa <sdi-africa at lists.gsdi.org>
Sent: Thu, May 6, 2010 3:59:03 PM
Subject: [SDI-Africa] Fw: Happy 100th issue SDI-Africa newsletter!

 
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Mark de Blois <mark at deblois.nl>
To: Kate Lance <lancekt at aya.yale.edu>
Cc: SDI-Africa <sdi-africa at lists.gsdi.org>
Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 2:19:22 PM
Subject: Re: [SDI-Africa] Happy 100th issue SDI-Africa newsletter!

Congratulations on this impressive achievement! The SDI-Africa newsletter 
has led me to my former 2 jobs and is still very important for me/us in 
many ways. Thanks Kate and all other contributors for keeping this up!

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Kate Lance <klance_remote at yahoo.com> 
wrote:
The SDI-Africa newsletter, published since May 2002, surpassed the 100th 
issue mark last month, quietly, without fanfare.  However, if you are 
inclined to 'applaud' this major milestone, please send a message now to 
the SDI-Africa list to mark your appreciation of GSDI's effort -- and feel 
free to comment on ways in which the SDI-Africa newsletters have been 
useful to you. 
 
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