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.

May 8th 2009

Important building blocks for good government performance

Bas Kok was an invited keynote speaker to the World Map Forum, held in Hyderabad, India on February 9 – 13, 2009.

View GSDI President, Bas Kok, presentation and speech.

He gave a keynote speech on the vision of GSDI concerning the future strategy for our Spatial Data Infrastructure community.

Bas Kok presented a GSDI statement to the GEO GEOSS.

View GSDI President, Bas Kok, presentation and speech.

GSDI President, Bas Kok, was an invited guest at the 2008 International Conference of Spatial Data Infrastructure and Annual Conference of Taiwan Geographic Information Society. The conference was held on October 23-24, 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan.

View GSDI President, Bas Kok, presentation and speech.

The XXIst ISPRS Congress was held at the Olympic Stadium in Beijing China during the first two weeks of July 2008. Bas Kok was an invited guest.