African GIS news

The December 2008 issue of the Spatial Data Infrastructure - Africa Newsletter has stories about the launch of SERVIR-Africa in Nairobi, construction of the SEACOM undersea fibre optic cable to link eastern and southern Africa to global networks, free access to the Landsat 1-5 archive, and various mapping projects throughout Africa as well as the usual full listing of conferences, training workshops and funding opportunities. You can read the newsletter online and in HOORC's Library.