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Geospatial Awareness, Skills and Knowledge - Managing our Future

Geospatial Awareness, Skills and Knowledge - Managing our Future. Josef Strobl Centre for Geoinformatics Salzburg University Austria. "Learning is the new form of labor....Learning is at the heart of productive activity.” Shoshana Zuboff, 'In The Age Of The Smart Machine'. Themes.

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Geospatial Awareness, Skills and Knowledge - Managing our Future

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  1. Geospatial Awareness, Skills and Knowledge - Managing our Future Josef Strobl Centre for GeoinformaticsSalzburg UniversityAustria

  2. "Learning is the new form of labor....Learning is at the heart of productive activity.” Shoshana Zuboff, 'In The Age Of The Smart Machine'

  3. Themes • Thinking Spatially • No SDI without Education • Awareness vs Skills vs Education • eLearning / Online Learning • Distance Education • From Teaching … to Learning

  4. Education – the Critical Element • NOT: GIS software • NOT: Data availability • NOT: GIS functionality • BUT: • Awareness • Skills • Education

  5. Thinking Spatially?? Z Z X Y X Y Y X Z Z

  6. Education Pyramid

  7. Geospatial Awareness Spatial OrientationLandmarksSense of PlaceClose and FarSpatial RelationshipsN/S/E/WGPS/GNSSMap ReadingOrientation Effective DistanceooLeft / RightPerspective View

  8. CGIS-NURGeographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Centreof the National University of Rwanda MapAfrica 2007

  9. CGIS-NUR and CGIS-NUR DemoCentre

  10. CGIS-NUR Mission The CGIS-NUR promotes a spatially literate society by serving as a recognized multi-disciplinary training and research centre of excellence in GIS and RS technologies and applications through which it addresses issues of local, national and regional importance such as societal and economic transformation and sustainable development.

  11. Introducing GIS to Secondary Education in Rwanda Martina ForsterGIS and Remote Sensing CentreNational University of Rwanda

  12. Snowball dispersion model • Start with 10 schools • 2 - 3 teachers per school • Teacher training in summer 2007 • Start teaching with GIS in Jan 2008 • Participating schools will each recruit 3 new schools • Pilot teachers will teach teachers at new schools • Most schools will be involved within 5 years

  13. Selection of Pilot Schools • Public, private, religious schools • Technical/vocational vs. scientific schools • Criteria • Electricity • Availability of computers • Teachers using IT • French and English instruction • Enthusiasm

  14. Teacher Training in 2007 • 3 days in June • GIS concepts • Mapping and Query • Edit spatial data • Digitizing • 2 days in August • GPS data collection • School lessons • Refresher in November?

  15. GIS Day www.gisday.com

  16. Skills - Training Software TrainingData AcquisitionDigitizingGPS MappingCartographyQuality ControlData DeliverySystems OperationSurveyingFormattingDocumentation

  17. Short Courses offered • Introduction to GIS • Introduction to Remote Sensing • SDI (SDI-Suite / Portal Toolkit) • Geodatabase / ArcSDE • Mobile GIS / GPS / DGPS • GIS Publishing • Threat to Biodiversity • Soil Erosion mapping • Urban and regionalplanning management • Land use/cover change analysis

  18. Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management … Satellite communications help warn people who are at risk, especially in remote areas They help connect a disaster zone to the outside world Images from earth observing satellites help assess the damage caused by disasters like earthquakes, volcano eruptions, oil spills and floods. Global navigation satellite systems enable us to obtain positional information on events that have to be mapped

  19. UN SPIDER - Outreach Activities in 2007 • Support participants from developing countries to attend relevant workshops and conferences. • Organise international and regional workshops/expert meetings: • - Bonn, Germany - October 2007 • - Bangkok, Thailand – November 2007 • - Shenzhen, China – December 2007 • - Khartoum, Sudan – December 2007 • - Salzburg, Austria – February 2008 • Check out the UNOOSA website for upcoming activities and get involved • http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/unspider/index.html

  20. GIScience Education ThinkingSpatially Spatial ConceptsSOAApplication DesignSDIConceptual ModelingMetadataLocation Based ServicesDatabase Design_Spatial Statistics Catalog Services IndexingHypotheses TestingProcess ModelingSpatialAnalysisInterpolationSegmentation

  21. Second Life

  22. „Body of Knowledge“

  23. UNIGIS Distance Learning • MSc or PG Certificate in „Geographical Information Science and Systems“ • Global Network of Universities collaborating in postgraduate / professional GIS Distance Learning • „Educating GIS Professionals Worldwide“ www.unigis.net

  24. UNIGIS Modular Learning 2 1 6 3 5 4 7 8 9 E1 E3 MScThesis E2 Collab.Project SS • 7/9 Modules • plus Electives • Final Project / Thesis • 1 yr – PG Certificate • 2 yr – MSc Cegree www.unigis.net

  25. Learning

  26. GISociety GISociety Technology Business Education Enabled Aware Literate Spatially

  27. The GI Success Diamond ApplicationDemand GI Edu GI Science GI Technologies

  28. “The only sustainable competitive advantage, is the ability to learn and apply the right stuff faster” Wayne Hodgkins

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