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In-depth interviews with Professionals in GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing are carried out by GIS Development every month. Interviews are done from the industry, academicia, research community and policy makers and are aimed to put forth the views of various fronts onto a common platform. Interviews are circulated across the globe through our ezines and also find place in our magazines if relevant to the theme.

Latest Interview
Dr Peter A Hecker
Managing Director, GEOkomm Networks


'We are 18, have 1 face'
(October 2009)
Devendra Sing
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India


Powering with reforms
(October 2009)

Previous Interviews
John K. Graham
President Security, Government & Infrastructure Intergraph Corporation


'Create solutions, not projects'
(September 2009)
Dr Phil Mjwara
Director-General,
Department of Science & Technology, South Africa


DST - A Catalyst for change in South Africa
(September 2009)
Dr Hussein O. Farah
Director General, Regional, Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya


Update of spatial tech is slow but promising
(July 2009)
Aida Opoku-Mensah
Director
ICTs and S&T Division (ISTD)
UN Economic Commission for Africa


ECA driving all things geospatial
(July 2009)
Willy Govender
Group CEO, Data World


We make GIS acceptable by increasing usability
(July 2009)
Derek Clarke
Chief Director
Surveys and Mapping, Department of Rural Development and Land Reforms
South Africa

SA doesn’t want to be seen as big brother in Africa
(July 2009)
Prof Josef Strobl
Director UNIGIS, Salzburg University, Austria


UNIGIS changing the landscape of geo-informatics
(July 2009)
Dr Robert Barr OBE
Chairman, Manchester, Geomatics

'Build aspects of every day life into SDI'
(June 2009)
Dr Yi So-yeon
Korea Aerospace Research Institute


Space is a tool for sustaining peace
(May 2009)
Kevin Mooney
Secretary General, EuroSDR,
Dept. of Spatial Information Sciences,
The Dublin Institute of Technology

European SDIs at different levels
(May 2009)
Mark Steele
COO, Asia-Pacific, Tele Atlas


‘Now is the time for dynamic data’
(May 2009)
Bryn Fosburgh
Vice-President, Trimble


World is inching towards integration
(May 2009)
Sharon Cottrell
General Manager, Customer Services
Land Information New Zealand


New Zealand prefers federated information to SDI
(April 2009)
Tanmoy Chakrabarty
Vice-President & Head
Tata Consultancy Services


Hybrid technologies to improve ROI
(April 2009)
Lawrie E Jordon III
Director of Imagery Enterprise Solutions
ESRI Inc., USA


GIS can address the intangible 'change'
(March 2009)
Kapil Sibal
Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences


Data is like oxygen, you don't pay for it
(February 2009)
Dr K Kasturirangan
Director
NIAS and Member of Parliament


Space tech is effective decision making tool for sustaining earth
(February 2009)
Dr Harsh K Gupta
Chairman
National Committee for International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE)


Earth scientists - building blocks for sustainable world
(February 2009)
Don Carswell
President
Optech Inc.


Mobile based LiDAR will take RS by storm
(January 2009)
Richard Zambuni
Global Marketing Director
Bentley Systems Inc.


GIS getting subsumed into engg workflows
(January 2009)
Dr Andreas Schild Dr Andreas Schild
Director General
ICIMOD


Mountains without mountain people will not be sustainable
(January 2009)