Inauguration Celebration of GSDI9 Conference

The Celebration took place in the historical building of the Museum of Military and History on 6th November 2006
Remarkable Inauguration Celebration of the GSDI9 Coference with over 500 invited guests including the Hungarian Ambassador to Chile


Members of the panel listening the opening speech of Col. Luis A. Alegria Matta: fom left to right: Chief Commander Jorge Matus, Minister Romy Schmit, outgoing GSDI President Prof.Harlan Onsrud and incoming GSDI President Jarmo Ratia
















Professor Harlan Onsrud, Outgoing President of GSDI addressed the poverty issue in his speech

The Ceremony was followed by a coctail, which provided excellent opportunity to change informal views with among others Dr. Jozsef Kosarka, his Excellence the Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary in Chile,
Alessandro Annoni Head of the Unit SDI of the European Commission at DG JRC , Bruce McCormack and Joao Geirinhas of EUROGI, Rodrigo Barriga Vargas, Deputy Head of IGM, Doug Nebert of FGDC, Santiago Borrero Mutis President of Pan-American Institute of Geography and History and representatives of OGC, GEO Secretariat, Columbia and Argentina.
Annotated photographs on both parts of the event will be available on the www.hunagi.hu soon