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Subject: [cormas-conference] Mapping for Change Conference
From: Francois Bousquet (francois.b@chula.ac.th)
Date: Sat Jul 23 2005 - 13:45:22 CEST
De: Giacomo Rambaldi <grambaldi@iapad.org>
Date: 16 juillet 2005 15:49:20 GMT+02:00
À: CMWG@indaba.iucn.org
Objet: [TGER List] Mapping for Change Conference [early registration
deadline approaching]
Mapping for Change: International Conference on Participatory Spatial
Information Management and Communication; KCCT, Nairobi, Kenya, 7-10 Sept
2005
Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder for those of you who plan to attend the conference and
have still to register:
July 31, 2005 is the last day for "early registration". Registrations
occurring after 1 August 2005 are subject to a surcharge of 10%.
The conference will bring together people with extensive practical
experience in Participatory GIS (PGIS) and community mapping in Developing
Countries and First Nations.
The focus of the event will be on sharing experiences and defining good
practices for making geographic information technologies and systems (GIT&S)
available to less-favoured groups in society in order to enhance their
capacity in generating, managing and communicating spatial information in
the following contexts:
* asserting ancestral land and resource rights and entitlements;
* supporting collaborative planning and management of lands and natural
resources;
* promoting equity in terms of ethnicity, culture, gender, environmental
justice, hazard mitigation, etc;
* managing and ameliorating conflicts amongst and between local community
groups, and between communities and higher-level authorities or economic
forces; and
* supporting cultural heritage preservation and identity building among
indigenous peoples and rural communities.
For more information on the conference please consult the following URL:
Conference web site: http://pgis2005.cta.int
Draft Conference Programme: http://pgis2005.cta.int/programme.htm
Registration procedures and costs: http://pgis2005.cta.int/registration.htm
Frequently Asked Questions: http://pgis2005.cta.int/faq.htm