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Goal
To update, strengthen and expand the GIS education in India to support the goal of making India a global leader in geospatial technologies.
Objectives
Target Members
The GIS Academia Council of India is an exciting new initiative to create a forum for academic leadership in the growing field of GIS. It has strong parallels with the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science in the US, and with similar organizations in other countries. Experience shows that a national voice for GIS education and research can help to stimulate and focus what might otherwise be a number of independent efforts in individual universities. The ties between the GACI and Esri India will help to ensure that universities keep abreast of new developments in the industry, have a means to communicate the results of their research to the industry, and have an effective channel for finding employment opportunities for their students.
Prof. Michael F Goodchild, Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of California
This council is an Esri India initiative and participation is by invitation. We are looking at academicians from India who are passionate about GIS.