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International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) Symposium: ISDE7 2011 Australian Bid Success
Last month, WALIS, in collaboration with the Perth Convention Bureau submitted an expression of interest (bid) to host the International Society for Digital Earth Symposium (ISDE7) in 2011.
If you haven’t heard of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) before, their purpose is to promote international cooperation in the realisation of the Digital Earth vision.
It seeks to enable Digital Earth technologies to play key roles in economic and socially sustainable development, promoting information technology and to reduce the digital divide. The ISDE continues to play a key role in aiding management of natural resources, improving environmental sustainability, protecting cultural heritage, improving our ability to mitigate disasters, in the study of global change, in the conservation of natural resource conservation and in improving living standards.
WALIS was recently notified that our Australian bid was successful and are now required to present an international bid to the ISDE Executive Committee at ISDE6 that will be held in Beijing, China in September 2009.
If the international bid is successful, it is anticipated that WALIS International Forum 2011 will be held in conjunction with ISDE7, making the Symposium a broad, international and exciting event that is a coup not only for WALIS, but also for Perth.
Congratulations to the WALIS team for their efforts in putting the Australia bid together. A big thank you also to the Perth Convention Bureau and other members of the WALIS community who contributed a lot of time and knowledge, ultimately producing a very successful result!