News
Presentations from the Nordic SDI Seminar in Uppsala, October 2011
The Swedish GI organisation ULI and GI Norden (the Nordic umbrella organisation for geographic information), in cooperation with its European counterpart EUROGI, were organising a Nordic seminar on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) at GEOINFO 2011.
Nordic Workshop on GI in Smart Cities
GI Norden and Geoforum Denmark are proud to present the Nordic Workshop to explore the potential of GIS in Smart Cities. Deadline for abstract submission is 1st February 2012.
Geo‐information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM)
Five renowned European institutes offer you a unique Erasmus Mundus joint European Master of Science (MSc) Course in Geo‐information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM). The course has a duration of 22 months and will be taught by world class faculty in five countries: Iceland, UK, Sweden, Poland and The Netherlands.
New Statutes of GI Norden
At the board meeting in Turku 7th June 2011, changes in the statutes of GI Norden were approved. After that all the five members of GI Norden have accepted the changes.
LISA´s 2011 User´s Conference - 20th October
The 2011 User´s Conference will be held at Grand Hotel Reykjavik, Iceland, on the 20th of October. Key note speaker is Steven Ramage, Executive Director, Marketing and Communications at the Open Geospatial Consortium.
Norway in mourning
Friday 22nd of July 2011 Norway was hit by terror. 77 people were killed in Oslo and at Utøya. The people of Norway wants to thank you all for the support we have got since the terror hit us.
Nordic SDI Seminar in Uppsala, 3rd-4th October 2011
The Swedish GI organisation ULI and GI Norden (the Nordic umbrella organisation for geographic information), in cooperation with its European counterpart EUROGI, are organising a Nordic seminar on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) 3rd-4th October, at GEOINFO 2011. GEOINFO is ULI´s annual conference which takes place 3rd-5th October in Uppsala. The conference fee will increase from 3rd September!
Presentations from the GI Norden conference 2011 in Turku
GI Norden and finnish ProGIS were arranging the 23rd Nordic GIS conference in Turku (Åbo), Finland, 8th-9th of June 2011. There were about 85 participants at the conference, which was arranged at the University of Turku. Turku was happy to present the best summer weather!
Ralph Monö elected new president of GI Norden
Ralph Monö from ULI, Sweden was 7th June elected new president of GI Norden at the annual meeting of GI Norden in Turku. He is following Þorbjörg Kr. Kjartansdóttir, LISA, Iceland, who is continuing as a member of the board.
GI Norden Conference 2011 in Turku, Finland
GI Norden, in cooperation with ProGIS, arranged its GI Norden Conference 2011 (the 23rd Nordic GIS Conference) in Turku, Finland, 8th - 9th June 2011. The title of the conference was "New Culture of Using GIS", bringing forth new methodology and new users of GIS.
