Jan Terje Bjørke got GI Norden's Award of honour
At the 20th Nordic GIS Conference in Fredrikstad 15th-17th October, Jan Terje Bjørke from Norway got the Award of honour 2008 from GI Norden.
Jan Terje Bjørke achieved the distinction for initiating and organising the Scandinavian Research Conferences (ScanGIS), with his enthusiastic attitude to Nordic cooperation. The price was handed over by GI Norden's president Paula Ahonen-Rainio.
The award has earlier been given to Olaf Østensen from Norway
in 2006 and Bengt Rystedt from Sweden in 2007.

