GSDI Regional Newsletter – Vol. 1 No. 1 GSDI REGIONAL NEWSLETTER for the Global Geospatial Community covering Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia & the Pacific, Europe, Latin America & the Caribbean, North America, anD the MiDDle East & North Africa May, 2014 – Vol. 1, No. 1 The GSDI Regional Newsletter is a free, electronic newsletter for people interested in all aspects of implementing national and regional Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) around the globe. The newsletter continues the tradition of the GSDI Association’s former separate regional newsletters that covered Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, from 2002 onwards. The purpose of the newsletter is to raise awareness of SDI issues and provide useful information to strengthen SDI implementation efforts and support synchronization of regional activities. The archive of all past copies of the previous regional newsletters can be accessed from the GSDI website by following the link to Newsletter Archive at gsdi.org. You can subscribe or unsubscribe to the regional newsletter or change your email address online at http://gsdi.org/newslist/gsdisubscribe. Announce your news or information! Feel free to submit any news related to spatial data infrastructure implementation that you would like to highlight, including new tools, policies, application stories, studies or reports from your area, profession, organization, country or region. Send your contributions to the News Editor, Kate Lance, at
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