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Articles & Publications

• Developing Cost-Effective Integrated Spatial Systems for Local Government. (78 KB)
• ENHANCING THE LIVELIHOODS OF THE RURAL POOR: THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES COUNTRY REPORT: SOUTH AFRICA. (987 KB)
• The United Nations Global E-Government Survey 2008 (1.5 MB)

Presentations

• Using a Municipal GIS to provide answers to Provincial and National Questions. (3.0 MB)
  
• GIS in Local Government - Presentation presented by Mr. Werner Fourie at the GIS Summit (2008), Midrand South Africa. (2.6 MB)
  
• The use of FOSS GIS in Local Government presented by Mr. Nico Elema at the FOSS4G Conference (2008). (2.5 MB)
  

Internet web links

CONFERENCES AND CELEBRATIONS

• Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) - 29 Sept. - 3 Oct. 2008. The annual Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference brings together the people who create, use, and support open spatial software.
  
• GIS Day. 19 Nov. 2008. GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society. More than 80 countries will participate in holding local events such as corporate open houses, hands-on workshops, community expos, school assemblies, and more.
  

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

• MapWindow GIS - Open Source Software Desktop GIS Software - Global Image uses MapWindow GIS extensively during our Practical GIS Workshops, to demontrate GIS Concepts.
  The MapWindow application is a free, extensible, geographic information system (GIS) that can be used in many ways:
  * As an alternative desktop GIS;
  * To distribute data to others;
  * To develop and distribute custom spatial data analyses.
  
• Download Registered Property diagrams with co-ordinates from the South African Surveyor General's Office
  
• Google Analytics
  
• PostGIS - PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension.
  

INSTITUTES AND ORGANISATIONS

• Government Open Source Software Resource Center
  
• The Geo-Information Society of South Africa - GISSA
  
• The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA)
  
• TZGISUG: Tanzania GIS User Group The Tanzania Geographic Information Systems Users Group (TZGISUG) is a semi-formal network of GIS practitioners and users who are either based in or are working on GIS issues related to Tanzania.
  
• The United Nations E-Government Readiness Knowledge Base (UNKB) The United Nations E-Government Readiness Knowledge Base (UNKB) is a benchmarking tool that provides a comparative assessment for monitoring progress of a country’s e-government readiness from 2003 to 2005. As such it provides an interactive snapshot picture of a country’s e-government readiness in the world.
  
• GLOBAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION The GSDI Association is an inclusive organization of organizations, agencies, firms, and individuals from around the world. The purpose of the organization is to promote international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national and international spatial data infrastructure developments that will allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues of pressing importance.
  
• EIS-AFRICA. EIS-AFRICA is recognized as a leading organization developing African capacity to generate, manage, disseminate and use geo-spatial, earth observation data and environmental information to enrich policy debate and support decision-making for the well-being of African people.
  
• The Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software.