Consultancy

Netherlands

2016-2011

Creating border dispute maps for several cases for the International Court of Justice (The Hague)

Italy

2015, 2013

Preparing and executing a thematic mapping course at Brindisi United Nations base for GIS personnel of various UN peace keeping missions

Austria

2014, 2012

Created and taught a 2 day hands-on workshop "Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data for Geospatial" for staff of United Nations (UN) bodies and entities

Namibia

2013

Organising, developing & running a two week, Nuffic sponsored, Refresher Course on “the use of social media, crowdsourcing and webmapping to enable spatial web presence for the private sector in Southern Africa” at Polytechnic of Namibia (Windhoek).

various

2013, 2012

Organising and supervising EuroSDR EduServ10 & 11 courses (distance learning courses “Open Standards and Open Source Webmapping”)

Netherlands/Bolivia

2008

Teaching Web Mapping in COMIBOL project for Bolivian Ministry of Mining

South Africa

2007

Organising and running a two week, Nuffic sponsored, Refresher Course on “Empowering Citizens: New techniques for mapping on the World Wide Web” at the department of Geography, University of KwaZulu Natal (Pietermaritzburg, SA).

Thailand

2007

Teaching part of the course “Geo-Information for Disaster Management”, organised by ITC, the Asian Centre for Disaster Prepared­ness and the Asian Instiute of Technology (Bangkok).

Ethiopia & Italy

2007

EU Culture2000 funded project “Melka Kunture site and Archaeological Park”. Together with the Centro di Geotecnologie of the Universita degli Studi Siena (San Giovanni Valdarno) and the Universita La Sapienza (Roma). Workpackage “Conceptual structuring and organization of the Web GIS and Internet Web site”. Development of an internet web site and a Web GIS for the distribution of the cultural heritage relevant to the Ethiopian Melka Kunture site and Archaeological Park.

Italy

2006

Organising and teaching a one week summerschool in “WebGIS using Open Standards and Open Source software” at the Centro di Geotecnologie of the Universita degli Studi Siena (San Giovanni Valdarno).

Italy

2005

Organising and teaching a one week course in WebGIS using Open Standards and Open Source software at MondoGIS offices (Roma).

South Africa

2004

Organising and running a two week, Nuffic sponsored, Refresher Course on “WebGIS and WebMapping” at the department of Geography, University of KwaZulu Natal (Pietermaritzburg).

Malaysia

2003

Setting up and teaching a two week course on Digital Image Mapping for 25 staff of the Malaysia Centre for Remote Sensing (Kuala Lumpur).

India

2003

Setting up and teaching a one week course on Internet GIS and mapping for 16 GIS senior specialist of the Geological Survey of India at the GSI Training Institute (Hyderabad). Participation in end-of-project workshop of the same.

Netherlands/Cyprus

2002

Setting up, co-ordinating and partly teaching of a Special Course on Mapping and Property Valuation for The Department of Lands and Surveys (DLS) of Cyprus. This was a compact and comprehensive tailor-made program, funded by the EU, to meet the training needs of the DLS. Twelve employees of different branches of the DLS came to ITC and followed intensive training courses in photogrammetry, remote sensing, digital cartography and computer-assisted valuation.

Iran

2001

Teaching a module “Visualisation & Internet” in the GFM specialisation of the MSc/PM programme of the Remote Sensing & GIS Advanced School (JIK), combined with bringing JIK staff up to date (“teaching the teachers”) on the subjects taught in this module. JIK was a joint education project of the Ministry of Jehad-e-Agriculture, Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology and ITC.

Netherlands

1998-1999

Setting up and running of three commercial short courses on Webcartography.

Zambia

1997

Organising and running a three week Refresher Course in Desktop Cartography at the school of Surveying, University of Zambia (Lusaka)