Global Confluence of Geospatial Thought

More than 2000 global experts and users of geospatial technologies will gather together at Hyderabad International Convention Centre from 10 - 13 February 2009 to discuss, deliberate and evolve ways to create a Sustainable Planet Earth for the conference, Map World Forum.  

The conference is being organized by GIS Development. The Forum promises to be a Global Congregation for thought and discussion between experts from various fields like Environment, Finance, Management, Technology and Governance with Geospatial specialists striving to make our planet a sustainable one. It aims to bring the geospatial community into limelight with regards to mainstream development organizations at a global level.

Planet Earth has become susceptible to disasters since the past few decades because of various

infrastructure development activities, which has resulted in immense strain on available natural resources.

Keeping in view this background, the theme chosen for the Forum is "Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Planet Earth". The factors affecting the sustainability of Planet Earth are all interrelated and in order to combat them, we need to have a tool, which can associate and analyse them in a seamless manner. Geospatial technologies, because of their geospatial information dependent nature, provide the only way to look at these issues from a holistic viewpoint. Today, there exists a notable lack of geographic data and literature on observed changes, with marked scarcity in developing countries. The need of the hour is to build an exhaustive geospatial database that is going to serve as an enabling platform for the various stakeholders of this community. Map World Forum will strive to address this urgent need in order to safeguarded our beautiful planet for our future generations.