The book  “ICT FOR AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT - Where we are? Where we will go?” was already freely downloaded more then 200 peoples and visited by more then 800 peoples. You can see the book on Slideshare or you can directly download our book from CCSS pages.

On the conference FOSS4G-CEE will be on Tuesday 22^nd May at 14 20 presented Proxy4ows.  http://foss4g-cee.org/program/overview/

The program of conference FOSS4G-CEE is now available . You can also registered yourself for conference.

Czech Centre for Science and Society and Progis are organizing workshop Public – Private Cooperation for ICT Supporting Africa’s Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Risk-management during conference IST Africa

The 3rd newsletter for the 5th ECPLF conference, 8th ECPA conference and 8th EFITA/WCCA conferences that will be held from 11th to 14th July 2011 at the campus site of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague in the Czech Republic was published.

Draft agenda for GI2011 was published. You can nof registered fro event

Important message - For teachers of basic and secondary (high schools) schools  is participation free of charge

(Knowledge af English and German language and  knowledge of Geographic Information System is reccomended)

IGN, CCSS and University of West Bohemia  are organizing this professional event, following their long-time education and research activities to achieve better SDI/GDI awareness and closer cooperation in EUROPEAN BORDER REGIONS to adapt to the EU Strategy of “Europe 2020” and the Action Plan “Digital Europe 2020”. The EU Directives on re-using of Public Sector Information (PSI) and development of Infrastructures for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) are strategic opportunities and challenges for more than 200 EUROPEAN BORDER REGIONS.

Therefore, you are welcome to participate at this GI2011-X-border-SDI/GDI Symposium to be held as the “11th Sächsisches GIS-Forum” at May 23rd in BAD SCHANDAU (SAX) & “1st Bohemia # Saxonia GIS-Forum” at May 24th in DECIN (CZE). Both these GI2011 events should inform on the progress of EU-Directives PSI for re-using public sector information, as well as on INSPIRE about interoperability of X-border Data, Services & Applications, especially in EUROPEAN BORDER REGIONS.

The GI2011-X-border-SDI/GDI Symposium is presenting existing and still yet developing cross-border SDI/GDI Geoportal solutions to demonstrate the transformation, harmonization and integration processes of independent WebGIS-Portals into more complex SDI/GDI Frameworks.

This is the 4th newsletter for the 5th ECPLF conference, 8th ECPA conference and 8th EFITA/WCCA conferences that will be held from 11th to 14th July 2011 at the campus site of the Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague in the Czech Republic.

CCSS launched new debian repository containing mainly GIS packages. http://debian.ccss.cz

Co-organised by the University of West Bohemia, Help Service Remote Sensing Ltd.  and the Czech Centre for Science and Society

Contact persons:Tomas Mildorf, mildorf(at)centrum.cz

Date:  Tuesday 12^th July 2011 15:30 – 19:00

Venue:           Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
classroom E255
            Kamýcká 129
            165 21  Prague 6 – Suchdol
            Czech Republic

The Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic, CENIA and EFITA would like to invite you for the

Galileo and other Space Initiatives for Agriculture

which is organised within the frame of EFITA/WCCA 2011 (see www.efita2011.cz).

Workshop is organised by EFITA under auspices of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic and CENIA.

Purpose of the workshop

The purpose of workshop is to stimulate active discussion about utilisation of new space technologies in Agriculture. Active participation on workshop is welcomed. In case you are interested in actively participating, please contact Karel Charvat.

We would like invite you to join our exhibition Social Space for Geospatial Information based on ideas of 4rh way to SDI. Exhibition will demonstrate tools supporting building of SDI on principles of social communities. It will demonstrate possibility of publishing user derived data on community portal, but also share information using metadata catalogues with other portal. It also offers connection with public portal and reuse of information on public portal. Solution offer easy integration of such information sources like OpenStreetMap. Demonstrated solution also includes aspects of social network. A social network consists of a finite set or sets of actors and the relation or relations defined on them. The presence of relational information is a critical and defining feature of a social network.” The focus of the Geoportal4everybody project is on social network sites (e.g Facebook, Twitter) as one of the main dissemination and communication tool. The Geoportal4everybody will be an entry point for any news (new developments, problematic topics, progress in the project, etc.). News will be posted by the project partners and will be automatically distributed to a number of selected communities – social network sites. Technologies of Geoportal4everybody are used now in many European projects like EnviroGrids BlackSee, Plan4all, Habitats, Metaschool, but also for example are now base for Czech National INSPIRE portal or for regional portals in Latvia and on Canaries Islands. Visitor will have possibility to learn how implement such solution also in Africa.

Call for paper for

European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food
and the Environment / World Congress
on Computers in Agriculture
11^th - 14^th July 2011, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

8^th European Conference on Precision Agriculture
11^th - 14^th July 2011, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Date:        2010, November 16th-17th with specific workshops and site meetings on18th
Venue:      Imperial Resort Beach Hotel, Plot No. 11/13, Mpigi Road, Entebbe, Uganda

The scientic programme for IST-Africa 2011 is based on an open Call for Papers

The core thematic areas are eHealth, eInfrastructures, Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT Skills, Digital Libraries and Intelligent Content, Living Labs, Open Source Software, ICT for eInclusion and eAccessibility, ICT for Environmental Sustainability, RFID and Networked Enterprise, eGovernment, Networked Media and Transformation of Research Results into Local Innovation.

Dear Potential Authors/Contributors,

We would like to address you with this attractive proposal. Czech Centre for Science and Society is going to set out a monograph on ICT for Agriculture and Environment. The book will be published with registered ISBN in electronic and paper version and it will be distributed free of charge in paper and electronic form.

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups
the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results.

5^th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming
11^th - 14^th July 2011, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

PRELIMINARY-INFORMATION:

        GI2011-X-border-SDI/GDI-SYMPOSIUM

FOCUS:

        EUROPE OF BORDER REGIONS

        "GeoINSPIRE'd X-border-SDI/GDI for Digital Europe 2020"

        SUSTAINABILITY OF INTER-REGIONAL COLLABORATION

Preliminary agenda for for GI2011-X-border-SDI/GDI-Symposium is available

14^th International Convention and Fair Informática 2011

Competition in developing geogames - Walking in the maps! - is here again!

Do you have nice photos or videos from your wanderings? Make some interesting geogame! You make happy known and unknown Internet users. And you can win competition "Walking the maps" of the great prizes!

ITAPA International Congress (Information Technologies and Public Administration) is already for eigth years the most important and well–known IT event in Slovakia. The congress is held every year under auspices of top government representatives and brings its visitors carefully planned program of highest quality. Among our partners are since the beginning of ITAPA the most relevant IT business companies in Slovakia.

INVITATION:

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Note that we are entering the last few days to submit articles as the
submission deadline is October 15, 2010

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups
the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results

Please submit proposals until 31 October 2010.
You will be informed about acceptance of your proposal latest on 15 November 2010.

INVITATION

Please consider to contribute and encourage your colleagues and team members
to submit a paper/abstract to The 9th International Conference on Education
and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2011
(www.2011iiisconferences.org/eista), to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on
July 19th - July 22nd, 2011

We are pleased to announce that ICELW 2011, the Fourth Annual International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace,  will be held from June 8-10, 2011 at Columbia University in New York. The Call for Proposals is now open; the deadline for submissions is December 15th, 2010.  To submit a proposal, please use the submission form found at www.icelw.org

We invite you to submit a paper/abstract to The 9th International Conference
on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA
2011 (www.2011iiisconferences.org/eista), to be held in Orlando, Florida,
USA, on July 19th - July 22nd, 2011

The submissions deadline for this 2nd CFP December 8th, 2010 (Check the web
site for possible extensions or new set of deadlines)

• Deadline for submitting a paper or poster abstract extended to 1st December 2010
• TIEMS Secretariat opened in Brussels
• Emergency Management Asia event in Bangkok 12 - 13 January 2011