GISDECO Seventh International Seminar on GIS in developing countries 10-12 May 2004 Venue: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia KEYNOTE SESSION Capacity Building for Spatial Data Infrastructure Development Ian Masser, President, GSDI Association Development and Applications of GIS in Asia Prof. Dr. Gar -On Yeh, Hong Kong University Advances in SDI Development in Africa Ezigbalike Chukwudozie, UNECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PAPERS a).GDI Training in practice: An Analysis based on ITC’s experiences. b).Managing Spatial Data Infrastructures In Developing Countries: Concepts and Implications Walter.T de Vries, Urban and Regional Planning and Geoinformation Management (PGM) International Institute of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC) ‘GIS Higher Education Development in Nigeria: The Example of the GIS Programme, The University of Ibadan, Nigeria’ Rasheed Yusuf, Department of Geography, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria Capacity Building of Government Line Departments for making use of Geospatial Database in Natural Resource Management in India Dr P. C. Tiwari, Kumaon University, Naini Tal-263 001, Uttaranchal, India And If Geospatial Data Infrastructures Were Fragmented And Splintering? W.H. Erik de Man, Dr. W.H. Erik de Man, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information Management International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) Hengelosestraat 99, P.O. Box 6 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands Utrecht University, Dept. of Science, Technology and Society GIS in the Municipality of Tehran: Achievements and Failures Farshad Nourian, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Director, Center of Academic Excellence Department of Urban and Regional Planning University of Tehran Tehran, Iran The integration of GIS into policy making through intra-urban indicators. Case study Rosario (Argentina) Javier Alberto Martínez, MSc. PhD student at: Urban and Regional research centre Utrecht (URU) Faculty of Geographical Sciences - Utrecht University. Utrecht. Developing a Versatile Land-Use Information System Based On Satellite Imagery For Local Planning In Indonesia. Phase 1: Establishment of Classification Scheme Projo Danoedoro Department of Cartography and Remote Sensing, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia Factors Affecting the Use of GIS In Urban Transportation Planning and Management Ata Khan Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario K 1S5B6, Canada Spatial Planning and Decision Support System for Better Governance Dr. Luc Boerboom Can Participatory-GIS strengthen Local Level Spatial Planning? Suggestion for Better Practice. Dr. Michael K. McCall, Assoc. Prof Dept. Urban & Regional Planning & Information Management ITC PO Box 6 7500 AA Enschede, Netherlands Web-based GIS for Collaborative Planning and Public Participation toward Better Governance Prof. Dr. Ahris, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) GIS: In Malaysian Planning Education Prof. Mansor Ibrahim International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Who Owns the Legend? Giacomo Rambaldi Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Wageningen University. Power, Participation and Inflexible Social Institutions: the Challenges to Community Empowerment in PGIS Applications Dr. Peter A. Kwaku Kyem Associate Professor Department of Geography Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA. POSTER Urban Development Model for Tehran, Iran By Using Environmental Modeling and GIS/RS Alireza Gharagozlu BS in Survey Engineering and MS and PhD in Environmental Management Manager of Public Relations & International Affairs of National Cartographic Center of Iran (NCC) Monitoring Desertification Based On Geographic Information System & Multi-Spectral & Multi-Temporal Satellite Data. Case Study: Damghan Playa. Dr Seyed Kazem Alavi Panah, Ehsani A.H Assistant professor, College of Geography, Department of Geography, University of Tehran, Iran. Post graduated of Natural Resources Engineering-Arid land reclamation, University of Tehran, Iran. Managing Spatial Data Infrastructures in Developing Countries: Concepts and Implications Walter.T de Vries Urban and Regional Planning and Geoinformation Management (PGM) International Institute of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC) Topographic mapping from space for arid and semi-arid lands in northern Kenya Akira Hirano Institute of History and Anthropology, University of Tsukuba 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571 Japan GIS Analysis for the Climatic Evaluation of 3D Urban Geometry: The Development of GIS Analytical Tools for Sky View Factor Wenjing Li National University of Singapore Department of Architecture Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture (CASA), 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566 An Interactive Digital Guide map of Dhaka City Meher Nigar Neema1, Farhana Ahmed2, Farzana Akhter2 and K. M. Maniruzzaman3 1Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, BUET, Dhaka 2Masters Student, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, BUET, Dhaka 3Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, BUET, Dhaka Monitoring Land Use and Land Cover Changes in a part central Himalaya – Contribution Towards Regional and Global Environmental Study D.P. Semwal and P. Pardha Saradhi Department of Environmental Biology, University of Delhi, New Delhi- 11 0007 Delhi-7, India GIS And Geostatistical Modeling Of Surface Fractures And Their Subsurface Extension – A Case Study In The Arabian Shield Prof. Rao. S. Divi Dept of Earth & Environment, Kuwait University, Kuwait GIS Based Analysis of Livestock Production System in Andaman and Nicobar Islands S.Senani R.B Rai, R.N.Chatterjee, Jai Sunder and A. Kundu Central Agricultural Research Institute, India