The
conference GISNet’11 was held in Hochiminh City,
Vietnam by DITAGIS in two days August 8 and 9, 2005.
It received the sponsorships of Ministry of Science
and Technology, Ministry of Education and Training,
Vietnam National University – HCMC, University
of Technology, Center of IT Development, VIDAGIS company,
VietCad company, and ThanhQuang company. The mission
of this GISnet conference was to promote the applications,
education, and services of GIS, GPS, and RS in Vietnam.
It popularized the geographic information science and
technology, the spatial science and technology to students,
researchers and users in Vietnam.
This year, GISNet welcomed the presentation of Professor
Doctor Nguyen Tan Phat, Vice Minister of Ministry of
Education and Training, and President of Vietnam National
University – Hochiminh City, of Doctor Bui Van
Quyen, Head of Southern Offi ce of Ministry of Science
and Technology, of Associate Professor. Doctor Nguyen
Minh Dan, Director General of Department of Science
and Technology, of Associate Professor Doctor Phan Thi
Tuoi, Rector of the University of Technology, of Professor
Doctor of Science Truong Minh Ve, former Vice President
of Vietnam National University – Hochiminh City,
and other offi cers of Provincial Agencies, Director
of Departments of Science and Technology, Departments
of Post and Telecommunication, Departments of Science
and Technology, Departments of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Departments of Construction from many cities
or provinces of Vietnam. Besides, there were 567 participants
who were offi cers, researchers, scientists, graduate
students, undergraduate students, technicians of GIS
organizations and offi cials of governmental agencies
in Vietnam. The conference also welcomed professors
and researchers from Thailand and Canada.
The conference had keynote session in the morning and
two technical sessions in the afternoon of the fi rst
day. The MEKOGIS meeting and workshop were held in the
morning and afternoon of the second day.In the keynote
session, Doctor Bui Van Quyen had a speech about the
rapid development of GIS. He said century 21 is a century
of information and integration. Spatial information
has been playing an important role. In order to help
Vietnam to integrate to the world successfully, spatial
information of the homeland should be controlled well.
Therefore, geographic information science and technology,
and space science and technology must be considered
carefully. He recommended that GISNet should be an international
GIS conference from 2006. In this session, the presentation
of An overview of GIS development in Vietnam to 2005
of Professor Tran Vinh Phuoc was interested by many
people. It was written on data from various departments
and agencies in Vietnam. The short report of MEKOGIS
also attracted participants’ attention.
The sessions of Research with GIS and Research on GIS
were opened with 30 papers which had been scored by
a Board of Science of GISNet. Many interesting issues
were presented there.
In the MEKOGIS meeting, many issues of MEKOGIS system
were discussed. At the end of the meeting, researchers
and offi cers agreed that the results of MEKOGIS should
be deployed into the real world. Besides, internet should
be used to learn flood events by everyone. Moreover,
the government should promulgate a common regulation
for agencies to use and share data of MEKOGIS system.
In addition, the meeting concluded that MEKOGIS should
be invested more and more to link other systems and
to upgrade its capability.
The workshop about The development of Information Technology
and Geographic Information System whose author was Professor
Hoang Kiem was held in the afternoon of the second day.
There were 36 participants in this workshop.
The magazine of Coordinates and International Journal
of Geoinformatics were also circulated.
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