Monday, May 26th, 2014
With the Philippines emerging as one of the economic bright spots of Asia, it came as little surprise that Manila was chosen as the host of the 2014 World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia, bringing together...
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
There is broad agreement that the geospatial industry is a growth industry. Additionally, a current shortage of geospatial professionals has been identified in the U.S. and Australia. In Australia alone, this figure has been estimated at between...
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Final-year university students have been through the mill over the past year, with rising youth unemployment and the few employers still hiring spoilt for choice. The property sector is one of the worst hit. With hundreds of...
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
FINNMAP's Legal Expert Dr Jukka Pekka Tolvanen was awarded the Royal Order medal of Officer at the medal awarding ceremony at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) on 24 August 2011.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
National Post Graduate College will introduce post-graduate diploma in geographical information system (GIS) and remote sensing, and retail management from the 2011-12 academic session. "The course of these kinds are not being run by higher education institutions...
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The IGES Natural Resources Management (NRM) Group conducts strategic policy research, capacity building activities and outreach to contribute to the management, protection and enhancement of natural resources in the Asia-Pacific region. As part of the NRM Group, the Forest Conservation...
Friday, January 14th, 2011
The state government has decided to go the high-tech way in implementing the employment guarantee scheme (EGS). Satellite images of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would be used to determine the areas that need to be given...
