GSDI Association has proudly supported and contributed to the production of booklet for “Geoinformation for Disaster and Risk Management” published by Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies and United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.

Policy makers address the present but technological progress moves ahead and renders the policy irrelevant. Article highlighted various aspects of geospatial policies and architecture of an enabling framework

Following the first Preparatory Meeting on Global Geographic InformationManagement in Bangkok, on Sunday 25 October 2009, prior to the 18 the UNRCC-AP, the United Nations Statistics Division/DESA (UNS

During the FIG congress , Sydney, Australia Memorandum of understanding (MoU) sign between The GSDI Association  And The Internatio

The GSDI President, Associate Prof Abbas Rajabifard gave plenary talk about"Spatially Enabled Society" in FIG 2010. This was the biggest number in any FIG conference. There was more than 150 technical sessions, flash sessions, workshops, special forums etc. with almost 800 papers. More than 2,000 people attended to this event from 100 countries.

The XXIV FIG International Congress 2010 is being held in Sydney Australia between 11 and 16 April. I will be attending this event along with other members of the Association.

Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard  presented his keynote presentation in Eighteenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia & the Pacific (UNRCC-AP) 26-30 October 2009, United Nations Headquarters, Bangkok, Thailand.

Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard, University of Melbourne

Dear colleagues, friends, ladies and gentlemen.

It is a great honour and privilege for me to assume the role of President of the GSDI Association.

June 16th 2009

Good morning. I’m Bas Kok, current president of GSDI and I take great pleasure in welcoming you to Rotterdam and to this 11th GSDI world conference.

This image of the earth as seen by astronauts is one which is burned into the consciousness of human beings all over the world. From space, our planet appears as a single world, a single organism. And from the perspective of the universe, our world is one whole.

May 17th 2009

GSDI President, Bas Kok, was an invited keynote speaker to the United Nations supported Forum on Land Administration for the Asia and Pacific Region. It was held in Tehran, Iran from May 24-26, 2009 and attended by more than 400 delegates, representing 15 countries and 4 international organizations.

Mr. Kok gave two presentations, one on GSDI and the other on the Dutch Cadastre.