Podcast: Four New Year's Geotechnology Challenges

By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
January 06, 2009

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With the new year sixdays old and economic challenges expected for every sector we explore four big challenges and opportunities for those in geospatial technology: (1) how U.S. investment in infrastructure may propel geotechnologies; (2) marketing geotechnologies in tough times; (3) the growth/contraction of location-based services; and (4) the renewed interest in "openness."

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Podcast: Four New Year's Geotechnology Challenges (#1) by Asmat Ali, Survey of Pakistan
Date: January 6, 2009 13:56 PM

I am of the opinion that among all the challenges the renewed interest in "openness” would really be a hard nut to crack in the coming days as it poses the question, “How and from where continuous/smooth supply of revenue would be ensured to developers of open (source) solutions in a world that already is facing severe economic crisis.

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