Why should I attend?

Spatially Enabled Government is a hot topic at the moment, and all parties involved in implementing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) wants to know what they can do to better implement and ensure improved solutions.

Across the world governments are striving to provide more cost effective and efficient services to the public. The trend is for them to move into an e-government, as web technology enables governments to not only provide services to the public via the internet, but also to improve internal effectiveness by deploying intranet business applications to their staff and business solutions.

Numerous governmental departments throughout South Africa are currently implementing GIS, but there is still a lot that they can do to improve their current solutions. One of the reasons that Spatial Data Methodologies can’t always be implemented as they would want to is because of the skills shortage and lack of knowledge on the topic.

IQPC is presenting its 3rd Annual Conference on Spatially Enabled Government. By attending this event you will gain new strategies and techniques to improve GIS in your Department. This conference will also provide you with the opportunity to learn more from other departments on what they are doing to implement GIS and what can be done to ensure the sharing of geospatial data.

People You Will Meet This conference on Spatially Enabled Government will bring together individuals from local, provincial and national government that will share experiences and provide insight to what they are currently doing. There will be numerous opportunities for you to network and be part of our exclusive one-on-one sessions where you can meet every single delegate attending the conference. Jonathan Jackson Programme of Land Surveying, School of Civil Engineering Surveying and Construction University of KZN Sahr Mandla Tengbeh KZN Regional Manager Sigodi Marah Martin Development and Engineering Consultants Dirk Craigie Senior GIS Analyst Directorate: Information Programme Department of Water Affairs and Forestry Dr. Alet Harmse Department of Geography UNISA Alex Fortescue Earth Observation Business Developer CSIR Satellite Application Centre Prof. Dr. Christoph Kätsch University of Applied Science and Arts Germany Mariana Raath Director A0 Avenue Juan-Onic Maritz Technical Manager HP Serena Coetzee Department of Computer Science University of Pretoria Sarel Naude Advanced Specialist Business Development: BI/GIS State Information Technology Agency (SITA) Dean McCormick Regional Sales Manager ERDAS Inc. AFRICA Aubrey Kekana Coordinator Corporate GIS South African National Parks

PLUS! Back By Popular Demand! Heindrich du Plessis Chief Directorate of Surveys and Mapping Department of Land Affairs Craig Schwabe Director: GIS Centre Human Science Research Council, South Africa Alex Lugadiru GIS Specialist Data Exchange Platform For The Horm Of Africa (DEPHA) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Don't miss this event because...

Here is your chance the get all the necessary knowledge you need to implement Spatial Data Infrastructure successfully.

Here are some of the key issues that will be discussed:

1. Exploring Spatial Mapping and Deployment of Government Services in the future
2. Striving towards a spatially enabled forestry sector: Information for a national key resource
3. Addressing the issue of skills development, training and education when implementing GIS
4. Spatially Enabling government through sustainable access to satellite imaging
5. Discussing social accountability and the use of GIS information
6. Ensuring that interoperability is occurring to enable the sharing of spatial information between different departments
7. The role of spatial development framework and town planning schemes in a GIS environment
8. Looking at development regions in the south African space economy and an evaluation of the location of nodes identified in the integrated rural development programme
9. Understanding how standardised addresses can spatially enable government
10. Brininging informal settlements into the equation by reviewing the importance of its contribution to the data final result
11. Reviewing how health mapping can be implemented to ensure that GIS disease notification systems are in place
12. Uncovering how GIS can successfully be implemented in municipalities in South Africa

If you are not yet ready to register, feel free to request a reminder nearer the time .

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