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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Capacity building - space for GSDI-UNSDI cooperation?

University of West Indies Campus at St.Augustine, the venue of the GSDI-1o Conference. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2oo8

On Sunday, in the Liasion Report provided by the HUNAGI member of the GSDI Board of Directors the recommendation of Prof Mike Gould was referred and seconded to use the opportunity of the meeting of UNGIWG Co-chair Karl Steinecker and the GSDI top officers to consider joint actions/cooperations in capacity building. If positively received this could lead to a new avenue towards the strengthen of the contribution to the implementation of GEO's 1o-year action plan.