Australia

Sieber was invited to give four presentations in Australia. Among them,

The Geospatial Web 2.0, Volunteered Geographic Information and Citizen Environmental Science. November 22. Dept of Geomatics. Univerisity of Melbourne.

Geoweb and the New World Order. Keynote speech at CRC-SI (Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information: Spatially enabling Australia) Annual Conference and Launch. November 23-24.

She also gave two talks on the Geoweb and the New World Order at two offices of Landgate, in Perth, WA and Midland, WA.

Sieber was part of the successful rebid for the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI-2). The Federal Minister Carr approved the establishment of CRCSI-2 on 6 August 2009 for $61M (AU).

The Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information is a national research centre set up under the government of Australia’s CRC Program.

In the coming years is involved in the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) research portion of the centre.