This year GIS Development and Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM) is jointly organising International Symposium and Exhibition on Geoinformation 2010 and Map Asia 2010 to foster the spread and growth of the geospatial sciences and its benefits for the community at large with a synergised effort of discussions and deliberations with academicians, researchers, policy makers and industry representatives.

Map Asia provides a platform for the Asian Geo-Informatics community to realise, recognise, and reveal the stages of dissemination of Geospatial Information. It is an international initiative aimed to allow the convergence, sharing and use of Geospatial Technologies. Founded in the year 2002, Map Asia is the largest Annual International Conference and Exhibition on Geospatial Information, Technology and Applications in the region and offers a unique branding, networking and marketing opportunity to the local and international Geospatial Industry.

International Symposium and Exhibition on Geoinformation is the premier educational event for professionals involved in geoinformation technologies, including geographic information systems (GIS), GPS, remote sensing, automated mapping/facilities management (AM/FM), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and related geospatial technologies. ISG bring together scientist from academia, industry and government to analyze progress and to explore new research directions. It focus on emerging topics and basic research findings across all sectors of geoinformation technologies.

Date & Venue

ISG 2010 will held on 26 to 28 July 2010 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Objectives

The primary objective of the ISG 2010 is to gather professionals and industry experts from the geoinformation field globally to disseminate their knowledge and share their expertise and vast experience with participants. This is a perfect venue for the steady flow of latest technology in geoinformation.

Theme

Connecting Government and Citizen through Ubiquitous GIS

The citizen-oriented Government today is characterized by cooperation based on information and service sharing.The way government do business in delivering public services is being challenged today on various fronts, not for providing more and more services, but instead being challenged to making the service delivery as accessible, cost-effective, seamless and painless as possible to the public. The vision of connected government relies on the willingness and ability of agencies to collaborate. The public service agencies must no longer see themselves in isolation but rather as an integrated part of ‘one government, many agencies, and one delivery’. The connected-government initiative poses challenges on how to formulate policies to spur and stimulate local innovation and on how to incorporate that technology to achieve our objectives well. The development of new ubiquitous computing technologies and frameworks provides new means for government services to be delivered ubiquitously in intelligent environments. With the theme Connecting Government and Citizen through Ubiquitous GIS the conference would seek appropriate methods and strategies in improving service delivery systems across all agencies. The conference will gather ideas, approaches and strategies from both the public and private sectors on improved and new ways to growing towards a connected government. The key success factor of this conference will be to deliberate ideas and solutions that could further leverage the organizations, integrating horizontally and vertically towards realizing one country vision.