United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

ECA | DISD | Contact | Feedback 

Activities
Situs addressing initiative
Situs addresses provide a means to deal with location-based navigation issue in Africa, without relying on memory or extensive local knowledge more...
SDI Africa Implementation Guide
The objective of compiling this handbook is to assist African countries to improve the management of their geo-spatial data resources more...
UNECA Metadata Explorer
The UNECA metadata Explorer lets you search and preview metadata for a vast collection of spatial and non spatial metadata records more...
UNECA Web map server
Live map services that allow direct interaction with content more...
Committee on Development Information (CODI)
CODI provides policy and technical guidance for the ECA sub-programme "Harnessing information for development" more...
SALB Project
The Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB) dataset is a dataset aiming at improving the availability of information about administrative boundaries down to the second sub national level more..
Task Brief and call for participation for Publication on “Land Management Information Systems in the Knowledge Economy” / Résumé des tâches et appel à contribution pour une publication sur le thème « Systèmes d’information foncière dans le contexte de l’économie du savoir »
Experts Hail Impact of Electronic Mapping on Africa
Geographic information and electronic mapping are helping African policymakers in areas such as urban planning, security, commercial delivery tracking, and environmental management

GIS to help you get there without getting lost
A seminar aimed discussing the merits of a proposed functional addressing system for Africa, was held by the Development Information Services Division (DISD) of ECA on 25 February 2005 at the UN Conference Centre
Sixteen Countries to Take Part in UN-Water Accra Workshop 
About 50 participants from 16 African countries will take part in a UN-Water/Africa three-day workshop on geo-water information development and management which opens in Accra on September 15
Discussions
Discussion group on Situs Addressing Initiative. Please note that a login is required to join the discussion group . Click here to join
Discussion group on CODI - Geo. Please note that a login is required to join the discussion group . Click here to join
Need any assistance related to Coordinating national SDI actions,
Implementing Geospatial metadata services, Implementing geospatial standards, Drafting national geospatial and metadata policies and Other GI related issues in Africa. Click here to send your query
Quick Links

GI related newsletters 
SDI-Africa Newsletter
EIS-Africa Newsletter
Upcoming Events
AFRICAGIS 2005 - Beyond talk : Geo-information working for Africa. Johannesburg, South Africa, from 29 August to 2 September 2005
World Summit on the Information Society – 2nd phase :16-18 November Tunis, Tunisia 
4th National Congress, Ordre National des Ingénierus Géomètres Topographes - Theme: For a land administration policy serving development.25-26 November Rabat, Morocco   
Presentations
Here you will find recent papers and power point presentations presented on major GI workshops
DISD Initiatives
African Information Society Initiative (AISI)
Information Technology Center for Africa (ITCA)
National Information and Communication Initiatives (NICI)
Partnerships for Information and Communication Strategies in Africa (PICTA)
Partners Link
 RECTAS | RCMRD | AOCRS       
 ITCEIS-AFRICA | USGS   GSDI | FGDC

Copyright © 2004  United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. All Rights Reserved.
For comments and suggestions about this web site, contact the Geoinfo team