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Outsight Expands into Asia-Pacific with a New Hong Kong Office to Propel the Deployment of of It’s 3D Lidar Software
Following its recent expansion across Europe with the establishment...
Hexagon and Hitachi Zosen sign agreement to provide TerraStar-X Enterprise corrections in Japan
Calgary, Canada – Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division and Hitachi...
China launches “Macao Science 1” space exploration satellites
JIUQUAN, May 21 (Xinhua) -- China successfully sent two...
Isro’s Chandrayaan-3 launch likely on July 12
The Indian Space Research Organisation is expected to launch...
SpaceX sends Saudi astronauts, including nation’s 1st woman in space, to International Space Station
Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the...
Singapore Tourism Board partners with Google to create Augmented Reality tours
Google’s ARCore and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) launched...
India’s New Space Policy Allows Full Private Sector Involvement
Long dominated almost exclusively by the government, the Indian...
Bayanat, Yahsat and ICEYE announce an ambitious program to broaden commercial opportunities across the UAE space-ecosystem
The program aims to develop a constellation of five LEO...
International Code Council and Dubai Municipality Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Promote Safe, Innovative Construction
The collaboration supports the position of the Emirate of...
Malaysian Space Agency receives Geospatial World Excellence Award for use of technology in monitoring rice crops
KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 — The Malaysian Space Agency...

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Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

How GIS Mapping Could End Corruption in India

Vishal Agarwal and his team at Spatial Ideas are working closely with Indian Administrative Service officers to apply cutting-edge technology and data management solutions to Governance. The company is using GIS Mapping to develop solutions that will...

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014

Indian Civic Bodies Slow to Streamline Tax Collection Using GIS

Civic bodies, which are reeling under acute funds crunch, have ignored a key proposal mooted for constituting a Geographic Information System-based database to strengthen property tax collection and improve their fiscal health. A recent scrutiny by the...

Thursday, August 8th, 2013

Land Surveyor in India Caught in Anti-Corruption Trap

The sleuths of Anti Corruption Bureau on Friday arrested Munagapaka land surveyor G VenkataSuryanarayana after he was caught red handed demanding and accepting a bribe from a farmer here. The surveyor at the mandal revenue office in...

Monday, April 22nd, 2013

Tunisia Launches “Crowd Map” to Track Corruption

Tunisia's "I Watch" organisation on Saturday (April 13th) launched a new online "crowd-map" for reporting cases of corruption. The name chosen for the site is "Billkamcha", a slang term for a person "caught in the act". Just...

Monday, December 12th, 2011

Graft Fuels Indonesia’s Infrastructure Woes

Police have come up with little explanation as to why the 720-metre-long (2,400-foot-long) structure on Borneo island -- built just 10 years ago to resemble San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- gave way, sending dozens of vehicles...

Friday, February 25th, 2011

Foreign Investment Ebbs in India

India’s rise has captured the world’s imagination, as the economy grows at nearly 9 percent a year and a growing consumer class buys cellphones, cars and homes. Yet foreign businesses and investors, once increasingly eager to tap...

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Indian Remote Sensing Agency Employees Convicted of Corruption

Six persons including two employees of National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) were sentenced to imprisonment by a special CBI court here in a fund irregularity case. After six years of trial, the special court convicted NRSA Project...

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Half of India’s Road Budget Wasted

India's home minister has admitted that half of the government's budget to build much-needed new roads never reaches its intended target in what he described as the country's "biggest swindle". P. Chidambaram, attending the World Economic Forum...