The media organization GIS Developemnt is sponsoring the 2^nd Map World Forum, scheduled for February 10 - 13, 2009, in Hyderabad, India.  With the theme “Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Planet Earth”, the forum will bring together responsible stakeholders from diverse fields to discuss creation of a geospatial database to enable the holistic analysis and exploration of factors affecting sustainablility.

Abstracts of rull papers are invited for symposiums, seminars, forums and technical sessions. The deadline is July 31. Topics of interest to EERI members include disaster management and remote sensing. For more informatino, visit the conference website .