GIS Development , the Geospatial media company felicitated twenty eight organisations from across the globe with the GIS Development Geospatial Excellence Awards at the Gala Dinner function of Map World Forum held on February 12, 2009 at Hyderabad, India. The ceremony was attended by more than 800 delegates.

The GIS Development Geospat ial Excellence Awards are India's premier private awards that commemorate excellence in the field of geospat ial technology applicat ions. The obj ect ive of giving awards was to recognize, honour and spot light the best applicat ions or uses of geospat ial technologies whose performance is worthy of emulat ion. The nominat ions for the awards were sought from all government, industry and partner organisat ions of Map World Forum. The winners were selected through an elaborate multilevel assessment process.

Professor V S Ramamurthy, Chairman and Board of Directors, IIT Delhi and DAE Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at Inter-University Accelerator Cent re presented the awards to all the awardees. On the occasion, Prof. Ramamurthy said, “Geospatial Excellence Awards is a good initiative to encourage usage of geospatial technologies across various verticals. I do hope that with such encouragement more private and public sector companies begin to apply geospatial technologies to their work in future.”
The categories of awards and their respective recipients were:

• Geospatial Application for Spatially Enabled Government
JUPEM, the Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia
• Geospatial Application for Disaster Management
State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, People’s Republic of China
• Geospatial Application for Forest Management
Forest Survey of India, India
• Geospatial Application for Operations and Business Support System in Telecom Sector
Reliance Communications, India
• Geospatial Application for Urban Planning
Department of Information Technology & Communication, Government of Rajasthan, India
• Geospatial Application for Planning and Management of Operations in Oil and Gas Sector
Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico
• Spatial Data Infrastructure
Central Informatics Organisation, Kingdom of Bahrain
• Geospatial Application to Safeguard Public Interest
Trakhees CED Services, UAE
• Geospatial Application for Water and Waste Water Utilities
Thames Water, United Kingdom
• Geospatial Application for Integrated Government
Singapore Land Authority, Singapore
• Geospatial Application for Improving Incident Management and Health Planning
National Institute of Malaria Research, India
• Geospatial Application for Operations Resource Management in Power Sector
North Delhi Power Limited, India
• National GIS Portal
National Informatics Centre, India
• Geospatial Application for Crop Production and Assessment
Fasal Programme - Ministry of Agriculture and Space Applications Centre (ISRO), India
• Geospatial Application for Rural Development and Empowerment
Village Resource Centre Project, Indian Space Research Organisation, India
• Geospatial Application for Early Warning System
Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, India
• Geospatial Application for Location Based Services
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, India
• Popularising Vehicle Navigation System
General Motors India, India
• Geospatial Application for Decision Support System in Local Government
Kanpur Nagar Nigam Limited, India
• Geospatial Applications for Decision Support System
Airports Authority of India
• Geospatial Application for Environmental Management
Green Belt Movement, Kenya
• Geospatial Application for Monitoring Vehicle Movement
Corporation of Chennai, India
• Geospatial Application for Cadastral Mapping
Land Information Ontario, Canada
• Geospatial Application for Design
Singapore Flyer
• Geospatial Application for Engineering
RITES, India
• Geospatial Application for Poverty Alleviation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA
• Geospatial Application for eServices
Dubai Municipality, UAE

Sanjay Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, GIS Development said, “GIS Development , as a propagator and promoter of geospatial technologies is very pleased to see the spread of geospatial technologies to such an extent and we feel that such great efforts need to be acknowledged. I on behalf of the GIS Development team would like to congratulate and thank all the winners who very enthusiastically participated for the Excellence Award.”

For more details related to Awards log on to http://mapworldforum/2009/conference/award_ceremony.htm

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GIS Development promotes and propagates the usage of Geographic Informat ion Science, Technology
and Applicat ions in various areas of development , worldwide and Asia in part icular. It assists
community and government in developing their product ivity, policies and management capabilit ies by
facilitating knowledge transfer in the domain of geographic information. It fosters the growing network
of those interested in geo-informat ics and encourages the exchange of scient ific know-how through its
key platforms: Magazines, Portal, Conferences and Training.