1. Geospatial Awareness, Skills and Knowledge - Managing our Future
Josef Strobl
Centre for Geoinformatics Salzburg University Austria

2. "Learning is the new form of labor
"Learning is the new form of labor....Learning is at the heart of productive activity.”
Shoshana Zuboff,
'In The Age Of The Smart Machine'

3. Themes Thinking Spatially No SDI without Education
Awareness vs Skills vs Education
eLearning / Online Learning
Distance Education
From Teaching … to Learning

4. Education – the Critical Element
NOT: GIS software
NOT: Data availability
NOT: GIS functionality
BUT:
Awareness
Skills
Education

5. Thinking Spatially?? X Y Z

6. Education Pyramid

7. Geospatial Awareness
Spatial Orientation Landmarks Sense of Place Close and Far Spatial Relationships N/S/E/W GPS/GNSS Map Reading Orientation Effective Distance ooLeft / Right Perspective View

8. CGIS-NUR Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Centre of the National University of Rwanda
MapAfrica 2007

9. CGIS-NUR and CGIS-NUR DemoCentre

10. CGIS-NUR Mission
The CGIS-NUR promotes a spatially literate society by serving as a recognized multi-disciplinary training and research centre of excellence in GIS and RS technologies and applications through which it addresses issues of local, national and regional importance such as societal and economic transformation and sustainable development.

11. Introducing GIS to Secondary Education in Rwanda
This presentation has been shown at the ESRI East Africa User Conference in September It is based on a paper written by the project coordinator, Martina Forster, the former director from CGIS, Michele Schilling and a senior GIS consultant, Tom McConnell.
Martina Forster GIS and Remote Sensing Centre National University of Rwanda

12. Snowball dispersion model
Start with 10 schools
2 - 3 teachers per school
Teacher training in summer 2007
Start teaching with GIS in Jan 2008
Participating schools will each recruit 3 new schools
Pilot teachers will teach teachers at new schools
Most schools will be involved within 5 years
Bringing GIS to Rwandan secondary schools thus demands a carefully reflected implementation plan. The successful incorporation of GIS into secondary education requires assimilation with the general curriculum, the teacher education, the job market and higher education at university. The accomplishment of sustainable teacher trainings, assistance throughout the first years at lowest possible cost and the implementation of the appropriate technical solution against all bottlenecks indicated above make it a challenging project. The following is the plan of implementation.

13. Selection of Pilot Schools
Public, private, religious schools
Technical/vocational vs. scientific schools
Criteria
Electricity
Availability of computers
Teachers using IT
French and English instruction
Enthusiasm

14. Teacher Training in 2007 3 days in June 2 days in August
GIS concepts
Mapping and Query
Edit spatial data
Digitizing
2 days in August
GPS data collection
School lessons
Refresher in November?
Experience with the adoption of GIS in other countries has proven the critical nature of thorough training for teachers. Therefore teacher training was split into two constitutive courses of three respectively two days with a pause of about one month in between. For most effective results there’ll be only six teachers attending a class.

15. GIS Day

16. Skills - Training
Software Training Data Acquisition Digitizing GPS Mapping Cartography Quality Control Data Delivery Systems Operation Surveying Formatting Documentation

18. Short Courses offered Introduction to GIS
Introduction to Remote Sensing
SDI (SDI-Suite / Portal Toolkit)
Geodatabase / ArcSDE
Mobile GIS / GPS / DGPS
GIS Publishing
Threat to Biodiversity
Soil Erosion mapping
Urban and regional planning management
Land use/cover change analysis

19. Earthquakes in Greece and Turkey;
Disasters during the last Decade
Floods in Germany, Austria,Czech Republik, Poland, England, France, Italy, UK;
Earthquakes in Greece and Turkey;
Storms in France, Germany, Austria, Northern Europe;
Forest Fires in the Mediterranean region;
Marine oil tanker accidents (e.g. Erika, Prestige);
Technological disasters (e.g. explosions in Enschede and Toulouse, Danube pollution with Cyanid, Fires in tunnels, Train accidents …)

20. Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management …
Satellite communications help warn people who are at risk, especially in remote areas
They help connect a disaster zone to the outside world
Images from earth observing satellites help assess the damage caused by disasters like earthquakes, volcano eruptions, oil spills and floods.
Global navigation satellite systems enable us to obtain positional information on events that have to be mapped

21. UN SPIDER - Outreach Activities in 2007
Support participants from developing countries to attend relevant workshops and conferences.
Organise international and regional workshops/expert meetings:
- Bonn, Germany - October 2007
- Bangkok, Thailand – November 2007
- Shenzhen, China – December 2007
- Khartoum, Sudan – December 2007
- Salzburg, Austria – February 2008
Check out the UNOOSA website for upcoming activities and get involved

22. GIScience Education
Thinking Spatially Spatial Concepts SOA Application Design SDI Conceptual Modeling Metadata Location Based Services Database Design _Spatial Statistics Catalog Services Indexing Hypotheses Testing Process Modeling SpatialAnalysis Interpolation Segmentation

23. Second Life

24. „Body of Knowledge“

25. UNIGIS Distance Learning
MSc or PG Certificate in „Geographical Information Science and Systems“
Global Network of Universities collaborating in postgraduate / professional GIS Distance Learning
„Educating GIS Professionals Worldwide“

26. UNIGIS Modular Learning1 3 4 5 6 2 7 9 8
Collab. Project E1 SS
MSc Thesis E3 E2
7/9 Modules
plus Electives
Final Project / Thesis
1 yr – PG Certificate
2 yr – MSc Cegree

28. A W I eLearning Anytime Anywhere Access
From Wired to Wireless University W
Intensive Instructor Interaction I

29. Learning

30. Enabled Aware Literate
GISociety
GISociety
Technology
Business
Education
Enabled Aware Literate
Spatially

31. The GI Success Diamond Application Demand GI Edu GI Science
GI Technologies

32. “The only sustainable competitive advantage, is the ability to learn and apply the right stuff faster”
Wayne Hodgkins

33. ESRI AP Discuss education with you today
Everybody is an educator, and all of you are doing phantastic jobs in this area
Education is critical for the success of our industry, today, and even more so tomorrow
Two groups: people who need to know about GIS, and ‚spatially aware‘ customers
BoK, and Spatial Thinking book
Spatial literacy !!! GIS Day
Move to server-centric GIS changes rules …

34. Education
… is critical for the success of our industry, today, and even more so tomorrow
Two major groups:
people who need to know about GIS, and
‚spatially aware‘ customers