A roadmap for Afghanistan: Tarek Rashed outlines a partnership-based roadmap to address the nation's need for higher education in the geographic information sciences.

GEO: connexion, October, 2005 by Rashed, Tarek

There are few limits to the ways in which the Geographic Information sciences and related technologies (GIST) can contribute to the building of a new Afghanistan.

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To reap the tremendous opportunities of GSIT in its post-conflict era, capacity-building efforts must balance the need for national labour to become technically skilled in geographic information technologies with the need for a broad education in geographic information science. Technical skills can meet immediate needs, but a broad education is essential for planning the Afghanistan of the future. Ongoing GIST capacity-building efforts lack such a broad vision.

The current GIST labour market in Afghanistan does not seem to demand or value a university...

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