Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
BLOOMBERG – Governments in the U.S., the U.K. and Spain could reduce their energy consumption by as much as 20 percent by encouraging investors to refit buildings to make them more efficient, said Peter Sweatman, chief executive officer of the Madrid-based consulting firm Climate Strategy SL. Officials could use investment opportunities worth as much as
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
TECHYUM – An interesting article on Strategy Page covers some of the history of the Soviet/Russian GLONASS system, designed to provide the same sort of global satellite-based navigation that GPS provides. The upshot, according to Strategy page, is that while GLONASS is partially offline, Russian sailors are using GPS — and the newest Russian military
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Pictometry Canada, a leading provider of aerial oblique imagery and metric geospatial solutions, announces the signing of a 10-year contract with Property Valuation Services Corporation (PVSC) of Nova Scotia. Under the agreement, Pictometry will provide annually-updated aerial imagery and geospatial software to PVSC, creating a province-wide geospatial information solution enabling property valuation collaboration between PVSC and 55
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Telogis is today launching Telogis Fleet 8 – the newest generation of its flagship GPS fleet management software platform. The Telogis platform is scalable to any size/type of fleet, including trucks and equipment. Telogis Fleet 8 incorporates even more dynamic data (traffic, weather) and reporting functions than before to provide one of the most comprehensive tools to
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Southern African nations need to agree on a common operational system to manage energy in the region, environmental experts advise. If they don’t, the region could experience power shortages and resulting economic deficits. The Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), which was formed in 1995 as part of an inter-governmental agreement between the twelve mainland
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – The Netherlands faces a severe shortage of well-educated workers, in particular IT specialists and technicians, the Telegraaf reports on Monday, quoting a number of experts. The experts, including the personnel chiefs at IBM, Siemens and Xerox in the Netherlands, have written to the government and MPs calling for action. The shortage will
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
SWEDEN GOV -he Government yesterday adopted a new cooperation strategy for Swedish regional development cooperation in Africa for 2010-2015. Support will also be given for research cooperation. The aim of the strategy is to increase capacity and political consensus among countries and intergovernmental organisations in Africa to tackle cross-border challenges concerning stability, trade and economic
Monday, October 18th, 2010
THE NATIONAL – Wind towers, long abandoned for the pleasures of air conditioning could again become a Middle Eastern architectural fixture, says a Dubai scientist who is integrating the traditional structure with a zero-energy cooling system. Ben Hughes, a researcher at Heriot-Watt University’s Dubai campus, recently received a grant worth US$1million (Dh3.67 million) from the Qatar National
Monday, October 18th, 2010
International Land Systems (ILS), Inc. has entered into a contract to implement a Geographic Information System (GIS) for the Government of Cross River State of Nigeria. Teqbridge Limited, the authorized ILS software distributor for Nigeria, is partnered with ILS on this project. The Cross River State Geographic Information System Fast Track Project aims to establish the
Monday, October 18th, 2010
On the 11th of November 2010, a Nordic Working Group under the Nordic Council of Ministers will host a seminar on metropolitan governance in the Nordic Capital Regions. The seminar will focus on the governance systems and their inherent relations that ensure integration of physical planning in the regional development planning. It is in particular the
