In 2011, GISCA is focused on the them of"5th GIS-in-Central-Asia Conference - GISCA 2011 The main objectives of this English language conference are to bring together GIS academics, researchers and practitioners in the Central Asian countries and encourage international cooperation and knowledge exchange in GIS education. In 2011, GISCA is focused on the theme of "Geoinformatics: Managing Environment, Resources and Risk". GIScience as a conceptual foundation, Geoinformatics as a methodology and GIS as software are powerful instruments for linking information from different sources by location. This is exactly what is needed to manage our environments and natural resources, and to assess risks arising from natural, technical and social factors. Conference takes place, 19-20th on May 2011 at the Kazakh national university by al-Faraby, to the address of: Kazakhstan, 050040, Almaty, av. Al-Faraby, 71, campus 6, faculty of geography. Additional key themes of the conference are: - GIS for Environmental Management - GIS for Disaster and Emergency Management in Central Asia - Health GIS - Educational programmes in Geoinformatics - Development of Spatial Data Infrastructures - New trends and technologies in GIS&T - International networking in teaching and use of GIS technologies for Environment and Emergencies. Term of representation of the application and clauses (the electronic version) till, 14th of March 2011. Payment for European countries – 100 EURO, for Friendship independent states or for Central Asian countries– 40 USD. The manuscripts, which were not meeting specified requirements, will not be published. To participation to conference scientists, teachers, post-graduate students and students are invited. The organizing committee reserves the right to itself selection of clauses. All wishing to take part in conference applications, according to the following form submit: "
