AfricaGISWe are now four weeks away from the deadline for abstracts and/or papers for the GSDI World Conference (GSDI 14) and AfricaGIS 2013. This combined conference is being held at the UN Economic Commission for Africa Conference Center in Addis Ababa from November 4-8, 2013.

AfricaGIS is the largest regularly occurring GIS conference in Africa with participants from the entirety of the continent. The GSDI World Conference has built a reputation for excellence in content and moves across the globe to offer geospatial specialists in all parts of the world opportunities to better exchange ideas and learn from global peers in building spatial data infrastructure.

This combined and fully integrated conference offers numerous opportunities for oral presentations and refereed and non-refereed publication outlets. We invite presentations covering the full range of practice, development and research experiences that advance the practice and theory of spatially enabling citizens, government, and industry. The conference theme is Spatial Enablement in Support of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction.

This call supports two primary forms of publication:

(1) a conference proceedings containing abstracts for all accepted submissions with designation of both refereed and non-refereed full papers in the proceedings, and
(2) a pre-conference published book containing fully refereed articles.

Important Dates

• Deadline for Submission of Abstracts:15 May 2013
• Deadline for Submission of Full Papers for Refereed Outlets: 15 May 2013
• Deadline for Submission of Full Papers for Non-refereed Outlet: 1 Sept 2013
• Deadline for Full Conference Registration Payment for All Presenters: 15 Sept 2013
• Conference Dates: 4-8 Nov 2013

Important Links

• Joint Conference Call for Abstracts and Papers: http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/papercall.html
• Conference Website: http://www.gsdi.org/gsdi14
• Past GSDI World Conference Proceedings: http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiConferences
• Past open access Books affiliated with the conference: http://www.gsdi.org/openaccessbooks
• Other Important Dates: http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/dates.html

Primary organizers and hosts of this conference include the GSDI Association, EIS-Africa, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, EiABC – Addis Ababa University, and the International Geospatial Society.