SERVIR-Africa community news for December 2009

04 January 2010, 2:07pm

The SERVIR-Africa project community news entries for December 2009 included the topics below - visit the web link below to see the full blog.

- State of progress for SALB African node (SALB newsletter, December 2009)
- Directions in real time in Nairobi using Google Maps
- Mapping NGO efforts worldwide
- Google Map Maker Global Competition
- ENDELEO provides a web-based tool to monitor vegetation dynamics in Kenya
- Scientists test climate change 'early-warning system'
- Interview with David Schell, Chairman, Open Geospatial Consortium
- Sailors braving treacherous waters for science
- International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS) Conference 2010
- "Afrique One"SERVIR Postdoc Fellowships in Ecosystem and Population Health
- Cold waters and wet African monsoon
- GIS helps preserve livelihoods and conserve wildlife in Tanzania
- Using GIS to understand climate change and political stability in Africa
- Traditional rainmakers team up with meteorologists
- 3rd African Leadership Conference launches two regional space partnerships
- Algeria to launch Alsat-2 satellite in first quarter of 2010
- Kibera's first complete free and open map
- GEO Plenary VI assesses GEOSS progress
- Infostate of Africa - internet connectivity in Africa
- Data for Decision (video)
- Satellites identify mosquito breeding sites
- CSIR partnerships create new expertise in geoinformatics
- CSIR receives video stream from SumbandilaSAT
- Strengthening linkages between AMESD and SERVIR-Africa
- RCMRD and INPE sign MoU
- SERVIR-Africa highlighted at SCGIS-Kenya conservation conference

Information provided by Kate Lance, SERVIR-Africa projectSERVIR

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