This program was developed jointly by MLTM and KOICA and will be held for two weeks at the KOICA education center in Pangyo, Korea.

 
 *16 nations: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, DR Congo, Guatemala,  Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines, East Timor and Uzbekistan

 
Participants at the training program are high-levelofficials who are involved in policy making for national survey and cartography.

 
For the first week(Oct. 17~21), they will receive lectures about the progress and current status of Korea’s surveying and GIS development, location based services, geospatial information industry and Korea’s territorial and regionaldevelopment policy and take a field tour.

For the second week(Oct. 24~27), they willbe participating at the UN-GGIM Forum which is the largest geospatial information conference jointly held by the UN and NGII.

Also, they will attend the Country Report to share surveyingand cartography technologies and the Exchange Forum to discuss ways to solve global issues.

NGII will arrange various meetings for officials to meet Korean cartography and surveying companies to maximize the effect of the training program.

 
Currently, Korean Association for Surveying and Mapping will select four Korean companies fortheir promotion and marketing in Cambodia and Indonesia, etc., and through this, the companies will have more opportunities to enter overseas markets.

Also, this training program will be developed into a long-term ODA project to make this program a representative training course for developing nations.

 
NGII expects that the training program will share Korea’s theoretical and practical know-how with the developing world and strengthen friendship and cooperation.  It will also promote advanced surveying and cartography technology and policy in other countries as a benchmark and thereby increase the changes for Korean companies to expand their scope of business into foreign markets.