Friday, June 25th, 2010
NEW SCIENTIST – The study included carbon dioxide and other gases such as methane emitted by rice paddies. It found that, overall, the intensification of farming helped keep the equivalent of 600 billion tonnes of CO2 out of the atmosphere – roughly a third of all human greenhouse-gas emissions between 1850 and 2005. Read More
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
CHINA DAILY – Authorities have approved 18 domestic companies to provide Internet mapping services in the country, with a number of applications from foreign vendors still being considered. The domestic companies were selected out of about 30 applicants and the list of approved providers is expected to be announced soon, the State Bureau of Surveying
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
ALL ABOUT DATA – I recently had the opportunity to attend AR Dev Camp Vancouver, an un-conference focusing on Augmented Reality (AR). This is an emerging field that involves changing what you can see by overlaying information on top of a camera view, like in the movie “Terminator”. So, what does this mean for geospatial professionals? Read
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
HELSINGIN SANOMAT – The capacity of Finland’s forests to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has doubled in just under 20 years. According to the Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA), Finland’s forests absorb 42 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, which is well over half of Finnish carbon dioxide emissions, which were 70 million
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Access to agricultural information in Rwanda is becoming a reality with inauguration of an Agricultural Information Communication Centre (AICC). Funded by the governments of Rwanda and Belgium, AICC aims at collecting, storing and disseminating information on the agricultural sector in the country. Read More
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
WALES GOV – It is a principle of the Wales Spatial Plan that development should be sustainable. Sustainable development is about improving wellbeing and quality of life by integrating social, economic and environmental objectives in the context of more efficient use of natural resources. The Wales Spatial Plan aims to deliver sustainable development through its
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – A few very personal words brought the 2010 Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum to a close on Wednesday. The State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, George Schuette, and Deutsche Welle’s Director of Television, Christoph Lanz, closed the conference with a message from their children: that we must continue
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
EU – A survey was conducted in November 2009 to measure the local perceptions of quality of life in 75 cities. It includes 70 cities in the 27 Member States of the European Union and 5 cities in Croatia and Turkey. A number of issues such as employment, environment, housing, transport, culture, city services and
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
EL MUNDO SPAIN – German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maizière, advocated the creation of a “digital eraser” with which may be disposed of Internet data. Each statement public on the Internet is potentially worldwide, argued Democratic politician. This prevents you rehabilitate someone who is harmed by a statement against him in the Network “Therefore it is important to teach Internet
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
ARAB NEWThe was announced on Monday during the IDB board of executive directors’ meeting which began under the chairmanship of IDB President Ahmad Mohamed Ali in Baku, Azerbaijan. The board approved SR905 million ($241.4 million) to be spent on development projects in Chad, Iran, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Togo, Lebanon, Niger and regional
