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GSDI 12 World Conference: Realising Spatially Enabled Societies

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty

GSDI 12 World Conference will be held in Singapore on October 19-22, and will have the theme Realising Spatially Enabled Societies. The call for papers is now open:

(1) Call for Conference Proceedings Submissions

Abstracts should be 250-500 words in length and will be reviewed by the GSDI-12 Conference Program Committee. Authors are limited to a maximum of two conference paper abstract submissions, whether as lead or secondary author.

Presentations will be organized in the following tracks, but authors are invited as well to submit presentations that fall outside of these topical tracks. The tracks identified by number are as follows:

1. Experiences in developing spatial data infrastructure initiatives, projects and programs at the following levels:
1. local and regional;
2. national,
3. multi-national, and
4. global
2. Applications arising from the use of improved spatial data infrastructure or spatially enabling citizens or government including applications related to:
1. poverty alleviation;
2. environmental sustainability and energy;
3. e-government;
4. e-commerce;
5. disaster prevention, management and response;
6. health, safety or public order;
7. transportation;
8. administering or managing property (cadaster), land uses, housing, or spatial planning;
9. managing natural resources such as oceans, forests, and rivers;
10. consumer products (e.g. navigation and gaming);
11. other applications
3. Geographic data issues
4. Geographic metadata, maintenance and updating issues and initiatives
5. Registries, portals,clearinghouses and archives
6. Web-based services for discovery, access, processing and product generation
7. Standards and interoperability Issues
8. Legal, ethics, policy, and economic issues
9. Institutional, administrative, and management Issues
10. Emerging participatory, inclusive and collaborative approaches in Developing Content and Infrastructure (e.g. participatory GIS, geoweb tools, data commons, collaborative commercial and open source software production approaches, volunteered geographic information, global geo efforts)
11. Capacity building and education, Knowledge Exchange (e.g. among research, development, education and professional practice communities as well as throughout society)
12. Basic and applied research methods and results
13. Other

High-quality submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Abstracts and follow-up full articles will be published in a conference proceedings volume to be made available on CD. For follow-up full paper submissions, authors retain copyright in their work but will be required to agree to a Creative Commons License to help ensure continued global access to their work over time. All publications produced for the conference, including abstracts, full papers and presentation slides, will be openly archived eventually at gsdi.org/gsdiConferences

Proceedings Submission Deadlines

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 April 2010
Deadline for submission of full papers (if author wants consideration as a refereed paper in the proceedings): 1 April 2010
Notification of acceptance or rejection for paper session and poster presentations: 1 June 2010
Notification of acceptance or rejection for refereed proceedings article: 1 June 2010
Deadline for submission of full papers for proceedings (non-refereed but still considered for journal special issue): 1 July 2010
Deadline for full conference registration payment for all oral and poster presenters: 1 August 2010
GSDI-12 conference dates: 19-22 October 2010