[SDI-Africa] Congratulation and may SDI newsletter live forever. @100th issues

Fri May 7 12:39:24 EDT 2010

Dear Kate and co ,
I can  not escape in giving my congratulations to you and all the SDI group!
Thank you for all the effort that have been done so far! and If you can remember of a note that i posted two years ago, i was saying the sdi can be define as a GEO-Effort!
So kate, just imagine you and your team shaking along the Globe! That's is exactely what have been done so far.
Congratulation and may SDI newsletter live for 100 years as the 100th issues.

Diallo Ngagne
PGD in Geoinformation
Cartography&GIS

Diallong

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  1. Wonderful achievements @100th issues (Okorukwu Williams O)
  2. Happy 100th issue SDI-Africa newsletter! (Mshiu.E)
  3. Re: Fw: Fw: Happy 100th issue SDI-Africa newsletter!
      (Chris Nicholas)

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Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 08:07:58 +0100
From: Okorukwu Williams O <willyahel at gmail.com>
Subject: [SDI-Africa] Wonderful achievements @100th issues
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Hello SDI pioneer,
  Am extremely pleased to thank you guys for the wonderful work you have
been doing, in bringing the world to our respective homes. Through SDI I
have benefited in so many ways ranging from contacts, geospatial development
e.t.c

Kudos,
Okorukwu Williams (Nigeria)
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Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 16:25:45 +0300
From: "Mshiu.E" <mshiutz at gmail.com>
Subject: [SDI-Africa] Happy 100th issue SDI-Africa newsletter!
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Thank you Kate and SDI members,
We realy appriciate your work, your news and information has been very
helpful to us.
We thank you very much.

With Regards,

Elisante Mshiu
University of Dar es Salaam.

On 5/7/10, Aubrey Kekana(GPGDED) <Aubrey.Kekana at gauteng.gov.za> wrote:
> Dear Kate and the SDI-Africa team,
>
>
>
> Congratulations on a great publication; well done!
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> I can't believe it's 100 issues already. SDI-Africa has been a valuable
> and informative newsletter indeed. I'm currently working on a proposal
> for a regional SDI for the Gauteng Province of South Africa, and the SDI
> related articles that are featured in this publication are adding a lot
> of value to the work that I am doing.
>
>
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> Here's to the next 100 issues; all the best!
>
>
>
> Regards
>
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> Aubrey Kekana
> Director: Geographic Information Systems
> 31 Simmonds Street, Marshalltown,
> Johannesburg, 2107
> Tel: +27 (0) 11 634 7067
> Fax: +27 (0) 11 634 7093
> E-mail:Aubrey.Kekana at gauteng.gov.za
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> From: sdi-africa-bounces at lists.gsdi.org
> [mailto:sdi-africa-bounces at lists.gsdi.org] On Behalf Of Kate Lance
> Sent: 06 May 2010 02:59 PM
> To: SDI-Africa
> Subject: [SDI-Africa] Fw: Happy 100th issue SDI-Africa newsletter!
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> ----- 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!
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> 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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> http://portal.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=707
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> Latest SDI-Africa newsletter (May 2010)
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 08:36:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Nicholas <chrisgnicholas at att.net>
Subject: Re: [SDI-Africa] Fw: Fw: Happy 100th issue SDI-Africa
    newsletter!
To: Mick Wilson <Mick.Wilson at unep.org>, Kate Lance
    <lancekt at aya.yale.edu>
Cc: SDI-Africa <sdi-africa at lists.gsdi.org>
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thank you Mick, for once again bringing it back to reality. :-)

First and foremost, I would argue that, rhetorically, 100 issues of this newsletter, distributed through this email list, counts as the most effective bunch of bytes pioneering African 'spatial data infrastructure.' Without that newsletter, this list has arguable been fairly useless. But because of it, there is a least a conceptual sense, probably shared by most on this list,  that an email to 'sdi-africa'  lights up the neurons of the most of the key people that are establishing  SDI in Africa, in all its gory details. And the newsletter guides the way - by virtue of assembling in one place a trusted source of conference and publication announcements, vetted through a universally trusted source, where people can drink from further SDI-Africa centric firehoses of information.

Indeed, when Bob Ford sponsored the first OGC demonstration at the conference establishing the MDGs, the core technologies were already mostly in place: i.e.:

- GIS itself
- satellite remote sensing and orthophotography
- Internet Protocol v4
- Hypertext Transport, XML, and basic authentication
- Web Mapping Services
- CEOS/CIP and Z39.30

Did that make things "go" ?  Clearly, it takes a lot more than hardware and software....it also takes 'wetware' - trust and a sense of a community working towards something of a common goal.  By adding real substance to this list, Kate has done that in a big way.

Chris

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From: Mick Wilson <Mick.Wilson at unep.org>
To: Kate Lance <lancekt at aya.yale.edu>
Cc: SDI-Africa <sdi-africa at lists.gsdi.org>
Sent: Fri, May 7, 2010 2:10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [SDI-Africa] Fw: Fw: Happy 100th issue SDI-Africa newsletter!

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
PO Box 30552 -  Nairobi 00100, Kenya
Tel: +254 20 7623436
Skype: mickwilson20
Fax: +254 20 7624315
Email: mick.wilson at unep.org    
Lat: 1?14'3.72"S  Lon: 36?49'5.93"E
Web www.unep.org

Kate Lance <klance_remote at yahoo.com>  
Sent by: sdi-africa-bounces at lists.gsdi.org 
06/05/2010 10:56 PM 
Please respond to
Kate Lance <lancekt at aya.yale.edu> 
To SDI-Africa <sdi-africa at lists.gsdi.org>  
cc 

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

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.  

http://portal.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=707 
Latest SDI-Africa newsletter (May 2010) 

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