Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Real freedom of information is about “the money that goes in, the results that come out”, as opposed to “FOI requests that are all about processes”. That’s the view of David Cameron, which he expressed yesterday at the end of his evidence session in front of a House of Commons committee. He distinguished between the increased transparency that derives
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Since 1998, the World Resources Institute (WRI) has been using GIS (Geographic Information System) models to develop map-based assessments of threats to the world’s coral reefs. Reefs at Risk Revisited, released in February 2011, is the latest assessment in the series and is based on a nearly three-year study that produced the most highly-detailed global
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
By all accounts the late Francis Alexander Garraway was a man well ahead of his time. The consummate professional land surveyor, Garraway’s resourcefulness, creativity and insatiable desire for knowledge will be memorialized through a special endowment established in his name at The College of The Bahamas.
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
EU foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton travels the Barents Region this week to discuss EU’s application for permanent observer status in the Arctic Council. Catherine Ashton first travels to Rovaniemi, then Kiruna and finally Svalbard. Read More
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
In a SPIEGEL interview, German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen, 46, discusses the nuclear phase-out, controversial solar power subsidies and why he believes Chancellor Angela Merkel’s energy revolution — which will see the country move to clean energies — is still on track. Read More
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Elimination of direct contacts between Armenian state real estate cadastre’s officers and clients has lessened corruption risks in the system, Ashot Musayelyan, deputy chief of the state real estate cadastre, said Tuesday, when Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited Arabkir Office for serving the cadastre’s clients. The president-ordered comprehensive reforms aimed at enhancement of transparency in
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed a new executive secretary to the Land Management Agency, the Kazakh presidential press-service reported. “According to the President’s order, Abay Ikranbekov is dismissed from the post of the executive secretary of the Kazakh Land Management Agency. Gulzhahan Bimendina was appointed as the executive secretary of the Land Management Agency,” the press-service
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Whether navigating with GPS, or find a card on the Internet: Using spatial data more and more people go into their private lives. It is therefore logical that the annual “FOSSGIS” conference on 20 to 22 March in Dessau, not only is open to professionals who deal professionally with geographic information systems (GIS), but also interested laymen. Theme of
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Electronics giant Philips is planning to sell its High Tech Campus in Eindhoven to private investor Marcel Boekhoorn, the Telegraaf reports on Monday, citing sources in the property sector. The paper says Boekhoorn is planning to take over the business park for some €450m and the deal has almost been finalised. Boekhoorn currently owns free newspaper
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Based on geographic coordinates which are input to a GPS device, the group is led to certain waypoints. Once there, it means staying eyes. This notice must be somewhere a next. But where? And how does it look? “If a stone pile in the woods is going, attentive. Is off to the not nature here, “says Corinn. And then the discovery between
