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Geomatics in Jamaica
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on Tuesday April 11, @07:40AM
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Nicolas Gignac writes "I am a Canadian cooperant/volunteer working as GIS Development Officer at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management in Kingston, Jamaica (from May 2005 to 2007).
Based on my own observation and interview, I have written an article about certain key elements of the development of geomatics in Jamaica. If you are interested for opportunity of cooperation or business development in Jamaica, see this web link for more information (PDF document)."
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gignacnic writes "This paper highlights the role of GIS in Jamaica in terms of Risk Reduction, GIS
implementation strategy, success, failures, challenges, current and
future uses/applications: http://www.cuso.org/_files/Jamaica_Risk_GIS_Ngigna c_e.pdf
. This other paper seeks to give an overview of two Canadian funded projects showing how GIS (Commercial and Open Source solutions) and cooperation is a proper way of empowering different organizations: http://www.cuso.org/_files/urisa_cuso_en.pdf"
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