Meeting the need for GIS skills in developing countries: The case of informal settlements

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 311-326

  Bishop, Ian D ^a   Barry, Mike ^b   McPherson, Elsworth ^c   Nascarella, Joiana ^a   Urquhart, Karen ^a   Escobar, Francisco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ANALYTICAL TOOL; DATA TOOLS; DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA; FORMALISATION; GOOD DATA; INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS; LEARNING MODULES; MULTIMEDIA LEARNING TOOLS; PROTOTYPE LEARNING; SPATIAL DATA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

DATA ACQUISITION; DEVELOPING WORLD; GIS; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; SOFTWARE;

CAPE TOWN; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036316177     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9671.00113     Document Type: Article

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