The 3rd Symposium on Digital Earth
Czech Republic, BRNO, September 21-25, 2003
Dear colleagues, dear
contemporary and future friends and supporters of the idea of Digital Earth,
dear friends from the GI fields, activities in ICA, global spatial data oriented
projects, Information Society Forum EU, Global Society Dialogue, U.N.
activities, and other fields,
Let me wish you only the
best in the coming year 2003 both in your personal life and professional life.
In the latter, I would like to play an important role and organize the 3rd
Symposium on Digital Earth which will be held in the second largest city
of the Czech Republic, BRNO, on September 21-25, 2003. Brno is
located between Prague and Vienna and is famous - apart from many other things -
as the city of the musical composer Leos Janacek.
The traditions of Brno
include also GI oriented conferences. Me and my work team have already realized
six international conferences - from Euro Carto VI in 1987 to AGILE one in 2001.
The task of the coming 3rd symposium on Digital Earth is to accelerate its
development, to compare state of the art in different continents and countries
and on the global scale. The core of the symposium will be traditionally aimed
at geographic information fields, but more than before we would like to
open doors towards other processes in the Information Society and show possible
role of the GI. A very important role will be played by the idea of sustainable
development in all its aspects: ecological, economical, technological, cultural,
social, and ethical.
By this letter I
would like to invite you to participate in our event which is supported not only
by the International Society on Digital Earth and Masaryk
University in Brno but as well by ministries of the Czech
government, the European Commission, international organizations and
initiatives (ICA, FAO, ISO, Open GIS, Global Society Dialogue) and
is prepared in close co-operation with other global spatial data oriented
projects, such as Global Map, GSDI, GISD and activities of the Cartographic Unit
of the U.N. A very important task of the symposium will be discussion about
possible Global Sustainable Information Society.
You will find more
information on our Web page:
http://digitalearth03.geogr.muni.cz
Please be so kind and
inform also your organizations, companies, potential participants of the event
and technical exhibition about our symposium. Please do not forget to send to us
abstracts of your papers soon.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Preliminary registration: 28th February,
2003
Abstracts: 31st
March, 2003
Letters of
Acceptance: 30th April, 2003
Full Papers: 31st July,
2003
Milan Konecny
Local organizing committee
E-mail: digitalearth03@geogr.muni.cz