Faculty of Geography and Environmental Science of Al-Farbi KazNU organizes 7th Central Asia GIS Conference – GISCA 2013 which will held 2-3th May in Malachite Hall of the university.

Faculty of Geography and Environmental Science of Al-Farbi KazNU organizes 7^th Central Asia GIS Conference – GISCA 2013 which will held 2-3th May in Malachite Hall of the university. The main purpose of this conference is a meeting of scientists, educators and professionals for Geoinformatics and Geoinformation Science from Central Asia and other countries and support international cooperation and exchange of experience in the field of GIS education. Title of the conference «Connected Regions: Societies, Economies and Environments».

Key themes of the conference are:

Delegates: assistant to the Austrian Commercial Attaché & Trade Commissioner Alenka

Orasche, the national coordinator of TEMPUS in Kazakhstan Tasbulatova Sh.U., director of Centre for Geoinformatics and GIS, UniversityofSalzburg (Austria) Prof. Josef Strobl, the main coordinators of the Central Asian countries Chymyrov A.U., Nazarkulova A. U. (Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, KSUCTA) Nyusupova G.N., Kerimbai N.N. (Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakh National University), and about 70 foreign scientists, experts in the field of GIS from 10 countries (Europe, USA, Russia, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan).

Conference is organized by Al-Farabi Kazakh National University together with The Austria-Central Asia Centre for GIScience (ACA*GIScience) and the department Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) at the University of Salzburg (Austria). The conference is supported by Trimble Navigation International Ltd, TEMPUS EC and other sponsors, working in the Geoinformatics field.

For more information, please visit the conference website: http://gisca13.aca-giscience.org