National Training Priorities in GIS - an Australian perspective

Pramod Sharma
University of Queensland, Australia

In July the Australian Key Centre in Land Information Studies (AKCLIS) sponsored a workshop in Sydney to review two recently completed reports compiled by the Australia and New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC) entitled "Land Information Management Training Need Analysis - National Report" and a "Compendium of Land and Geographic Information Systems Research and Development Projects 1995". The latter report identified areas where research was required or considered to be desirable.

The participants at the workshop - from Australian universities with major GIS programs and the national research organisation, CSIRO - evaluated these reports in terms of their current and proposed programs and in terms of the national GIS related needs generally. These deliberations will be presented in a forthcoming publication.

This paper presents a summary overview of those discussions.


Presentation format:
It will be presented as a paper presentation. Materials will be prepared in PowerPoint and presented either as 35mm slide or colour overhead transparencies.

Dr Pramod Sharma
Dept Geographical Sciences and Planning
The University of Queensland. QLD 4072. Australia
P.Sharma@mailbox.uq.edu.au
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