The GSDI Association, along with partners and participants has allocated resources from the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee and the GISCorps of URISA to fund a small grant program to support national or sub-national activities that foster partnerships, develop in-country technical capacity, improve data compartibility and access, and increase political support for spatial data infrastructure and earth observations application development. Could this be an opportunity on the Tanzanian Scene?

BIOTA AFRICA is a project jointly invented by African and German researchers. Their aim is the establishment of research supporting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa. This is not unlike so many other projects on a local, regional and continental level in Africa. Read on for more details.

NEMA in Uganda has together with GRID Arendal and UNEP pulished a report am interesting report: "''Best Practices in Environmental Information Management in Africa : The Uganda Case Study"

The GIS Development's Global Magazine has a Africa special issue. The following article lists key articles in this issue. You may also download this particular issue as a PDF-file. Tanzanian readers might find an interview of Dr David Mayunga particularly interesting.

The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the most comprehensive global spatial dataset on marine and terrestrial protected areas available. The 2009 version of the data were published earlier this year.

Pakistan is one of the developing countries of South Asia. Amongst various problems faced by the developing countries, one of the major challenges is fresh water availability to its inhabitants. Government of pakistan is paying full attention towards this problem because many more issues are associated with proper supply of water and drainage system. The article author describes a project where Web based GIS is used to promote a Fresh Water Supply System.

In this article I present a list of potential Geographical Information Systems data sources. As will be described there are a lot of good data sources which the user might find useful. The data sources covers the African continent. It contains cadaster, environmental and cultural data.

An Xmind figure showing how nature management in a country might be built up. Central in this figure are databases, geographical information systems and regulations. The figure is based on experiences from my own work in nature management in Norway and Tanzania.

This is a four minute movie where Mike Fay describes how GIS for him is an important tool. This is an inspiring presentation on life as a conservationist. The movie is delivered through YouTube? by ESRI.

The July newsletter from GSDI has been published. As always it is a good compilation of GIS related news from around Africa. Some Tanzania related highlights are mentioned in this article. Some of this get's a mention in this article.