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border="0"></a>For
many of us Spatial
Data Infrastructures
represent the roads
we are using in our
work. What is the
current standing on
Spatial data
Infrastructure in
East Africa? Mr
William Kalande and
Mr. Ondulo
Joe-Duncan in 2006
presented <a
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href="https://www.fig.net/pub/fig2006/papers/ts62/ts62_04_kalande_ondulo_0270.pdf">a
paper with the
title
"Geoinformation
Policy in East
Africa"</a> at the
XXIII FIG Congress
held in Munich,
Germany in October
8-13 2006. In this
article they give us
a walk trough of the
issues regarding
geoinformation and
policy/legislation
in Uganda, Tanzania
and Kenya. The paper
is well worth
reading. This
web-article presents
some highlights from
the paper for your
convenience.</p>
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sans-serif; margin:
0 0 1em">In the
summary of their
article Kalande and
Ondulo have this to
say:</p>
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0 0 1em;
padding-left:30px;"><em>Triggered
by global trends,
economic and
political reasons,
the republics of
Kenya, Tanzania
and Uganda signed
the East African
Cooperation treaty
in 1999 thus
bringing the East
African Community
into being. This
has led to
considerable
increase in demand
for cross border
Geoinformation
(GI) exchange in
the regional
block.</em></p>
<p style="direction:
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1.4em; color: #444;
font-family:
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Neue",
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sans-serif; margin:
0 0 1em;
padding-left:30px;"><em>Infrastructure
(Railway and road
network, airports
and coastal
ports), Natural
resources (Lake
Victoria, tourists
sites),
telecommunication
(common mobile
providers and
subscribers),
Institutions
(hospitals, banks,
schools and
colleges) just to
mention a few, are
now legally and
commonly shared by
the citizens of
the 3 member
states.</em></p>
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font-family:
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Neue",
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sans-serif; margin:
0 0 1em;
padding-left:30px;"><em>Coping
with this
increased demand
for cross border
geoinformation amid
the numerous
challenges in the
effective
generation,
management and use
of GI in decision
making in the
region dictates
that GI policies
for the candidate
member countries
be harmonized to
agreed standards
before
integration.
Questions then
arise; do these
countries on
individual basis
have
Geoinformation
policy in place?
Where not in
existence, what
efforts are being
made and at what
level? Are there
any efforts in
coming up with a
regional policy?
The paper
highlights the
current status of
GI policy in
Kenya, Uganda and
Tanzania, the
efforts and
possibilities in
coming up with a
regional GI
policy.</em></p>
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font-family:
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0 0 1em">The
following table
provides an overview
of the central
findings in the
paper.</p>
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1.4em; color: #444;
font-family:
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0 0 1em">Table from
Kalande & Undolu
(2006) showing
central findings.</p>
<p style="direction:
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14px; line-height:
1.4em; color: #444;
font-family:
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Neue",
Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; margin:
0 0 1em">According
to Kalande &
Ondulo the story on
an SDI in Tanzania
is that the Tanzania
National Spatial
Data Infrastructure
steering committee
at time of
publishing the
article did not have
enough funding to do
their work. In the
meantime several
initiatives are on
the rise. Some
governmental and
some funded by
NGO's. The only
mention of
biodiversity data in
the paper is of
Wildlife
Conservation Society
Tanzania having an:
"[..] enormous
amount of data
[..]". It should
here be mentioned
that both
individuals/groups
of researchers and
bodies like TAWIRI,
TAFORI etc... have a
lot of data
available. Some of
it published through
reports and papers,
some of it available
upon request. But at
this point the
authors might have
fallen prey off the
issues they are
pointing towards -
namely inadequate
national resources
with regards to
Spatial Data
Infrastructure. How
would one be able to
find resources for
SDI if it were not
for <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
style="text-decoration:
underline; color:
#2585B2;"
href="http://www.tzgisug.org"
target="_blank">TZGISUG</a> mailing
list, contacts and
other seemingly
random resources?</p>
<p style="direction:
ltr; font-size:
14px; line-height:
1.4em; color: #444;
font-family:
"Helvetica
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sans-serif; margin:
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points towards
harmonization of the
regulations of SDI
in the East African
Countries.</p>
<p style="direction:
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14px; line-height:
1.4em; color: #444;
font-family:
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Neue",
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sans-serif; margin:
0 0 1em">All in all
the article does a
good job in
enlightening us on
the SDI issues in
East Africa. This
article is a
must-read if you are
interested in SDI in
Tanzania.</p>
<p style="direction:
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1.4em; color: #444;
font-family:
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of the article by
dowloading the
article in PDF
format from the <a
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href="http://www.fig.net"
rel="nofollow">http://www.fig.net</a>:</p>
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href="https://www.fig.net/pub/fig2006/papers/ts62/ts62_04_kalande_ondulo_0270.pdf"
target="_blank">Kalande.
W and Ondulo J.
D. 2006.
Geoinformation
Policy in East
Africa. XXIII
FIG Congress.
Munich, Germany.</a></li>
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<p style="direction:
ltr; font-size:
14px; line-height:
1.4em; color: #444;
font-family:
"Helvetica
Neue",
Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; margin:
0 0 1em">Almost ten
years down the line
we are not
much wiser. The many
fragmented
initiatives remain
so - fragmented and
insufficient in
their structures and
extent. I am hoping
to see things move
forward - at least
within the
management of
environmental
information. As this
is written I am
about to travel to
Tanzania to
contribute to a
workshop arranged
together with NEMC
where the theme will
be how the different
stakeholders can
agree on data
sharing.</p>
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14px; line-height:
1.4em; color: #444;
font-family:
"Helvetica
Neue",
Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; margin:
0 0 1em">(This paper
review was published
in the TZGISUG
website some years
ago. Since then the
website has changed
profile and I found
it more relevant to
pull this article
back to my own
website. Some
changes has been
made since its first
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