An Excerpt:
The world has currently a lots of porblems to solve. Therefore GIS Specialists have a lot to do. Some examples are:
- growing population
- global warming and related consequences
- loss of biodiversity in social conflicts
- resource shortages
- aging infrastructure
- …
What is what we can do collectively?
Some topics: data and model sharing, desktop systems, geoweb, fusion of desktop and web GIS, ArcGIS 9.3, ArcGIS Server
listen to full talk.
[via Jack Dangermond, 2008 ESRI Federal User Conference Plenary]
Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
