A informação geográfica em Angola: subsídios para a elaboração de uma estratégia e plano de ação de apoio à implementação do plano nacional de informação geográfica

Abstract

In comparison to other places in the world, or even locally in the african continent, geoinformation technologies are not commonly used and disseminated in Angola yet. There is a massive lack of specialized personnel, research centers and teaching institutions, and so the promotion of technical and scientific applications is absent. Angola also misses a national TIG’s development policy and an effective mechanism regarding management and production of data. This prospect directly reflects in low information spread, in the absence of a legislative framework and its technical guidance, among other things. There is a huge blank space in regard to regulation, production, management and spread of geospatial information.