A Developing Perspective

摘要

The tenth GSDI International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastructure was held in St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, from 25th to 29th February 2008. A great deal of effort went into organising a forum like this in the Caribbean, in addition to focusing the interest of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) community on the subject of 'Small Island Perspectives on Global Challenges.' The organisers, particularly GSDI executive director Prof. Harlan Onsrud, did a terrific job. The rewards are evident. Not only in terms of the attention paid by local people and their counterparts in many nations to the need for building sub-regional capacity relating to territorial and maritime mapping of the surrounding oceans, but, and mainly, because of GSDI concentration on developing nations and their requirements. And concomitant attention for the building of sound and sustainable spatial infrastructures in accordance with regional and global trends and needs.