GSDI 10 Travel Support Grants

The locations of GSDI Conferences are moved around the world in order to allow people from different regions of the globe to attend a major international geospatial conference in their own region at minimal expense. If you would like to receive consideration for an additional grant to further reduce your registration fee or to help with travel expenses, please apply for a partial Conference Support Grant by providing the information requested below. Please supply this information on or before November 1, 2007.

The funds to be distributed through this program are limited and were donated to the Developing Nations Fund to be used explicitly to support individuals from low and very low income nations.

Criteria for Assessing Travel Support Applications

While none of the following is absolutely required, positive considerations in assessing applications for additional funding will consider:
- whether a paper, abstract or poster submission by the applicant has been accepted by the conference,
- stature and authoritative position of the candidate,
- low per capita income ranking of the nation in which the applicant resides,
- an emphasis for this conference on those from the Caribbean as well as Central and South America,
- disciplinary and sector (private, government, non-profit) representation,
- links of the applicant to emergent or developing SDI projects,
- encouragement of early career scholars and student representation, and
- other such factors as the evaluation team deems appropriate.

Awards will be made by wire transfer to the bank account of the recipient or by cash at the conference. Typically no cash award will be made until after a recipient has officially registered for the conference and paid the required conference registration fee. In order to cover out of pocket costs, conference registration fees will not be waived except under very unusual circumstances.

Application for Travel Support

The subject line or title of the email or fax you send should be as follows:
GSDI 10 Travel Support Application for <Your Name>

In the body of the email or fax, please provide responses to the following under each numbered heading. If the question is not applicable, please indicate "not applicable" as your response.

1. Please provide your contact information:
Last Name:
First Name:
Postal Address:
Country:
Email address:
Phone number:

2. My home country is ranked by the World Bank as falling within the category of "low income" or "very low income" nation. (See http://gsdi.org/RankingTable.asp). YES / NO

3. Please provide the title of the paper, abstract or poster submitted by yourself that has been accepted for GSDI 10.

4. Please provide the title of your governmental, professional or academic position as well as the name of the agency, company or organization with which you are affiliated.

5. Please briefly describe any spatial data infrastructure initiative or project with which you are affiliated.

6. Please provide a few words about your background and/or interests and their relevance to this conference.

Send responses to the above numbered items before November 1, 2007 to Marilyn Gallant by email or fax to
email:gallant@gsdi.org
fax: +1 703-852-7917