In the area of geographic information technologies the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has been implementing activities for more than four decades through its former Cartographic and Remote Sensing Unit of the Natural Resources

Abstract - Agriculture is by far the most important activity in most countries of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC).

In November 1999 the Interim Task Team for Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in Africa initiated a survey on SDI programmes or projects with an SDI-building component in Africa

There is general agreement that spatial data is crucial for environmental protection and sustainable development therefore the development of the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) ensures accessibility of information for decision-making

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is running a project called “GI&GIS Harmonisation and Interoperability”. As all JRC projects it is designed to support EU policy