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GISSA Ukubuzana 2012
Conference and exhibition of geo-informatics, ICT, surveying, remote sensing and location-based business
An African Dialogue:
Geomatics for Infrastructure Development and Service Delivery  
DATE: Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, 2, 3 & 4 October 2012.
TIME: 08h00 to 17h00; with cocktail party and gala banquet thereafter.
VENUE: Emperors Palace, Jones Road, Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa.
WEBSITE: Click here to visit the GISSA Ukubuzana 2012 website
CALL FOR PRESENTERS OF TRAINING WORKSHOPS
GISSA Ukubuzana 2012 is primarily aimed at leaders, academics, professionals, technologists, technicians, students and companies in the public and private sectors involved with or interested in geographic information science (GIS), information and communication technology (ICT), global positioning systems (GPS), surveying, remote sensing, and location-based applications and business.
In line with the mission of GISSA, there will be a significant emphasis at GISSA Ukubuzana 2012 conference and exhibition on education and training, skills development and knowledge transfer.
Running in parallel with the conference, there will be three concurrent streams (Training stream 1, 2 and 3) of hands-on, computer-based training and knowledge transfer workshops, held over two days (Day 2 and Day 3).
These workshops will be conducted in three fully-equipped training rooms, each kitted out with a screen, digital projector, notebook PC for the presenter and 15 notebook PCs all connected on a wireless LAN, and chairs and tables arranged classroom-style for 30 trainees (two trainees per laptop PC).
Trainings streams 1 and 2 on Day 2 and 3 are arranged in one hour blocks (45-minute training followed by a 15-minute break), and are available for training and knowledge transfer hosted by commercial vendor companies. The cost to vendor companies for this workshop training opportunity is R4000 + VAT per one-hour block.
Training stream 3 on Day 2 and 3 is reserved for non-commercial training and knowledge sharing e.g. by non-commercial organisations, academia, postgraduate and undergraduate students, and for presentation of short papers, project presentations, etc. There is no cost for presentations in Training stream 3.
Call for presenters of commercial training
Vendors of GIS, ICT, GPS, surveying, remote sensing and location-based business products, systems and services are invited to host and present commercial training workshops for Training streams 1 and 2 on Day 2 and 3 of GISSA Ukubuzana 2012.
Call for presenters of non-commercial training
Non-commercial organisations, academia, postgraduate and undergraduate students are invited to present non-commercial training and knowledge transfer sessions, project presentations and short papers for Training stream 3 on Day 2 and 3 of GISSA Ukubuzana 2012.
Click here to present a training workshop, short paper or project presentation
Topics for training workshops, short papers and project presentations
Showcase your technology, application and solutions at the GISSA Ukubuzana 2012 training workshops, and use your classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic(s).
Without being prescriptive as to the subject matter for training workshops, short papers or project presentations, click here for some suggested topics aligned with the general theme of GISSA Ukubuzana 2012.
Training material and documentation
Past experience has shown that a high-quality training workshop requires significant preparation for each hour of presentation time, and it is expected that presenters will develop training material for attendees to take away, such as handouts, a workbook, CD, memory stick, etc. Such training material needs to be prepared well in advance of the conference.
Special conference price for presenters
The presenter of a training workshop (one presenter per workshop) may attend the conference on the day of the workshop free-of-charge, and may attend the full conference at the reduced price of R3200 + VAT.
Important deadline dates
30 June 2012: Submission training workshop proposals
13 July 2012: Notification of acceptance of training workshop proposals
10 September 2012: Submission of training material content by presenters
17 September 2012: Registration of presenters of accepted training workshops
GISSA Ukubuzana 2012 training workshop contact persons
Technical programme and submissions:
Magda Roos, mroos@geoscience.org.za
GISSA conference steering committee chair:
Dawn Newman, 083 515-6913, newman.dawn@gmail.com
GISSA conference steering committee vice-chair:
Morena Letsosa, 083 877-6098, morena.letsosa@gmail.com
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About GISSA
The mission of GISSA is to represent the geo-information community in South Africa as a unified and representative national body, and serve the interests of its members, the wider geo-information community, the country, and society in general. About EE Publishers
EE Publishers disseminates, publishes and distributes information through its print and electronic media, and stages relevant conferences and exhibitions. EE Publishers is the publisher of PositionIT magazine, Africa's leading journal in this sector. |
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