Try www.GISdevelopment.net. It has many case studies of usage of GIS in developing word.
Ravi On September 16, 2004 Gunter Zeug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two years ago I was involved in the development of a Water > ressource management system based on GIS technology. This was > carried out for a small NGO, which was interested in seeing > if GIS could be a useful tool for their work. > > Since then I am interested in the existing and potential use > of GIS by NGOs (mostly in the developing world). I would like > to know how geo-technology and geo-data are used or could be > used to support their work. Do you already use GIS/geo-data > within your projects? Did you already have good or bad > experiences? Would you like to use GIS but do not know how? > What kind of software do you use? Free tools, enterprise > systems? Where do you get your input data from? Commercial > data, freely available, field surveys? > > After first searches in the internet I found that there are a > few things going on in the field of water management, but I > think there are many more possible applications, starting > with project planning, natural resource and wildlife > management, conservancy, health services .... Do you know any > journals/online publications/links where the topic of GIS use > by NGOs is dealt with? ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
