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Launch of the African Geo Information Researcher Network (AGIRN) portal
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| 27 October 2006 | Sives Govender, Executive Director, EIS-AFRICA
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 Dear Colleagues
EIS-AFRICA has for the past decade, been inundated with requests from the African Geo-information community for a service where high quality research studies, key note presentations, policies and position papers could be accessed and discussed. We have found that very few people in our community have the opportunity to attend and participate in GIS, EIS and Remote sensing conferences and meetings. Many professionals on our continent therefore face barriers in accessing vital information for research purposes and have no forum to present their own research studies. With this in mind, EIS-AFRICA and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of South African have designed and developed the African Geo Information Research Network (AGIRN) web portal.
The rationale for the development of the African Geo Information Research Network (AGIRN) is to address one of the key concerns of the geo-information community of Africa i.e. to provide access to research studies and paper presentations written by African Geo information experts as very few of these studies and papers became accessible to the broader geo-information community.
EIS-AFRICA and The Human Sciences Research Council’s (HSRC) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Centre have decided that it is imperative to develop a geo-information research portal that will ensure the establishment of a forum for a vigorous engagement by African researchers. The development of AGIRN will provide the geo-information research community a mechanism to publish and access high quality work, to share in geo-information knowledge and to engage in discussion through a widely accessible web based medium. This portal aims not only to serve the geo-information practitioners across the continent but also the many decision makers and planners in Africa.
The development and design of AGIRN will compliment the work of EIS-AFRICA and reinforce our vision to see an African society where information is readily available and easily accessible to support sustainable development.
We want the African Geo Information Research Network to be your resource and we encourage you to develop AGIRN further through interacting with the site and more importantly publishing your research papers and studies. |
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