Joint Symposium on Cartography in Early Warning

11 November 2008, 8:34pm

Joint Symposium of ICA Working Group on Cartography in Early Warning and Crises Management (CEWaCM) and JBGIS Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM)

We would like to draw your attention to the following Symposium and inform you that the deadline for the submission of abstracts has been extended to 15 November 2008:

"Cartography and Geoinformatics for Early Warning and Emergency Management:
Towards Better Solutions"

to be held from 19-22 January 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic

Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that UNOOSA through the UN-SPIDER Programme will provide air tickets to two participants to attend this meeting. Preference will be given to young researchers/professionals that have been accepted to present in the symposium and have submitted the full paper, that are from a developing country, and that have been specifically nominated by their institution or department to participate in this international meeting.

If you are interested in being considered for one of the two air tickets please inform the organisers when submitting your abstract: c4c@geogr.muni.cz.

Please also attach the endorsement from your institution or department to participate in this meeting.

Georg MAGERL
Associate Expert
Office for Outer Space Affairs / UN-SPIDER
United Nations Office at Vienna
P.O.Box 500
A-1400 Vienna, AUSTRIA
Tel: +43-(1)-26060-4472
Fax: +43-(1)-26060-5830
E-Mail: georg.magerl at unoosa.org

Symposium web site

UN-SPIDER

UNOOSA

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