Important Dates

 

Registration

September 5, 2007

 

Workshop

September 12, 2007

 

 

 

Organisation

Rolf A. de By &
Lyande Eelderink

 

ITC Enschede

 

ITC, Enschede,
The Netherlands

 

 

Workshop on Design Methods for sustainable SDI 2007 (SDIDM'07)

 

September 12, 2007

Kampala, Uganda

In the run-up to the ESRI Eastern African User Conference for 2007 (here in Kampala, September 13-14), a workshop will be organised on the topic of design methods for SDI.  The workshop will address the question whether standardisation on designs, designs methods and implementation techniques to build SDI nodes, needs to be pursued, and if so, how it can be achieved.  This will be a half-day workshop.

In the workshop, we will bring to the table the principle that a loosely organised network of similar minded agencies should agree to standardise firstly on the design methods, and not only on the software platforms, data formats, protocols and interfaces.  Areas like data modelling, architectural design, and service function specifications would benefit if design templates, standardised languages and design transformations are made available for sharing.  It will allow the SDI community to build systems more systematically, to learn from not only own mistakes, but also from those of others, and to share in improved solutions.  The workshop aims at identifying those steps that need to be undertaken to achieve such a collaborative setting.

The workshop is organised and sponsored by ITC, The Netherlands, specifically ITC's SDI Technology research group in collaboration with ESRI Eastern Africa. Participation is free, though limited, and possible only after registration with the organisers.

Registration

Registration is free but mandatory. Space is somewhat limited. Please register by sending an email message to mrs. Ellen Steur (steur AT itc DOT nl), upon which you should receive your electronic entrance ticket.

Program

This will be an afternoon's workshop, held from 13h30—17h00. The workshop will consist of two sessions:

  • Sessions with brief 15-minutes presentations by organisation representatives and academics, illustrating how internetworked, spatial data handling systems (“SDI nodes”) are being designed and built.
    - Welcome — Opening — Purpose — Philosophy
     Rolf A. de By, ITC
    - Consolidating efforts for achieving a sustainable SDI in Uganda
     Bernard Justus Muhwezi, Uganda Bureau of Statistics
    - SDI: Delivering Geographic Information as One
     Emanuele Gennai, ESRI Europe
    - Towards an Approach for the Implementation of SDI in Uganda
      Moses Musinkuzi, Makerere University
    - Implementing SDI-Nodes at the European Commission — A Case Study
     Andreas Wytzisk, conTerra

 

Refreshments

  • Discussion session in which we will address
    • the needs for standardized design & implementation practices
    • the needs for organisations to collaborate in design and implementation experience
    • the identification of precise capacity building requirements
    • the preliminary definition of a working agenda

 

Reception



Venue

 

Grand Imperial Hotel, 6 Nile Avenue, Kampala, Uganda (phone +256 41 25-0780), in the Kuku room. We are expecting an attendance of approximately 35 people.

 

Hotel Africana location

 

Last updated: September 7th, 2007

 

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