Information for Africa

• Kenya sets standards in innovation and monitoring
  12 August 2010
  Business Daily Africa

  As always observers literally came from all over the world to monitor Kenya’s August 4 referendum. But I was more interested in a group huddled in a free-form room along Ngong Road one cold day in July.

• Ghana uses maps for 2010 census
  24 August 2010
  GhanaWeb

  ....... maps, questionnaires and manuals to be used by enumerators were also ready to be distributed for a take off of the mapping out programme.

• Ghana to develop base maps for country
  26 August 2010
  Ghana News Agency

  Ghana to undertake the preparation of base-maps, covering Greater Accra, Ashanti and Western regions. Mapping of other regions would be undertaken under different projects. The rest of the projects include mapping the whole country at a scale of 1:50,000, mapping of seashore across the coastal line; railway network corridor; the Volta River Authority GRIDCO; network across the country and provision of large scale mapping at 1:2500.

• Leaders Stress the Importance of Spatial Data Strategies for Improved Government Delivery
  27 August 2010
  GISuser.com

  Other key third world countries are already seeing financial benefits from utilising GIS. If Africa does not follow this lead, millions may be lost in...

• Brazil First in the World to Go Fully Digital for National Census
  30 August 2010
  UberGizmo (blog)

  Despite having the opening question of its national census be: do you use a hole in the ground or open cesspit for a toilet? Brazil, a country stricken with poverty, is leading the world in moving to smartphones and converting to a fully digital national census. The country will be employing 150,000 LG GM750 smartphones running on the Windows Mobile operating system to collect responses, data, photos, and GPS location for improved accuracy in census reporting.

• Ghana: Proper Land Management Key to Sustainable Development
  30 August 2010
  AllAfrica.com

  The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Alhaji Collins Dauda has observed that on-going activities to alleviate poverty and ensure sustainable growth is hinged on proper land management and administration.

• Mapping Africa's Protected Areas
  30 August 2010
  Spatial Source

  The Mapping Africa's Protected Areas (MAPA) project aims to create and publicise high accuracy maps of major parks and reserves in Africa in order to help ...Mapping Africa's Protected Areas (MAPA)

• Digital age mapping delivers productivity gains
  31 August 2010
  The Globe and Mail

  In the past, when a customer ordered home delivery from St-Hubert Bar-B-Q, the Quebec-based restaurant chain, order takers had to shuffle through printed maps to find where the customer lived, and then assign the nearest outlet to prepare the meal and send it out.