Geographic Information: Need to know - Towards a more demand-driven geospatial workforce education/training system (GI-N2K)

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GI-N2K aims to answer the question on how the education and vocational training in the domain of GI S&T can match with the actual job requirements in the job market. GI-N2K builds upon the existing Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge (GI S&T BoK) that was developed by the American University Consortium for Geographic Information Science , published in 2006 by the Association of American Geographers . The ‘BoK' will be updated and brought into line with the new technological developments and the European perspective ( e.g. importance of INSPIRE in Europe). The renewed BoK will apply an ontological approach and will take the form of a dynamic e-platform (wiki-based format) including tools to use, explore the BoK, to define curricula , training opportunities and courses and to define job profiles. The GI-N2K project is built around a network of 31 partners ( 25 countries ) from the academic and non - academic sectors and partners from the GI industry (including Shell ) , major GI associations and individual experts.