[UN SPIDER] March/April 2008 Updates

[Tony Young LYU]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached the January/February 2008 Updates.
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News included in this UN-SPIDER Updates:

1. Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment Platform (CAPRA)

2. EU Plans to Reinforce Disaster Response Capacity by End 2008

3. E-Health and Telemedicine Associations of Germany, Austria and
Switzerland Join Forces

4. Google and UN Team Up to Map Refugee Crises

5. ITU Vows to Lend Mobile Satellite Telecoms for Disaster Preparedness

6. Emergency and Disaster Information Service (EDIS)

7. High Resolution Population Maps for Low Income Nations: Combining Land
Cover and Census in East Africa

8. European Commission's Research and Technological Development Framework
Programme - Call for Proposals

9. Joint GEO and UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER Special Session at the International
Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC, 25-29 August 2008, in Davos, Switzerland

10. Internship Opportunities

11. “PSC Europe Forum – Second Annual Assembly Meeting” in Ljubljana,
Slovenia 10-11 June 2008

12. “TIEMS 2008 Annual Conference” in Prague, Czech Republic 17-19 June
2008

13. “Air Quality and Human Health Workshop at the XXI ISPRS Congress” in
Beijing, China, 2 July 2008

14. “The 7th SAFNet Workshop” in Caprivi, Namibia, 22-26 September 2008

15. “7th International Conference of the African Association of Remote
Sensing of the Environment (AARSE)-2008” in Accra, Ghana, 27 to 31 October
2008

16. Upcoming UN-SPIDER Outreach Activities


Regards,
Tony Lyu

____________________________
Tony (Young S.) LYU
Associate Expert
UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER
Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10
53113 Bonn, Germany
+49 (0)228.815.0678
young.lyu at unoosa.org

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