Esri stumps up $100 M to put GIS into every Australian classroom
29 August 2017
Esri has committed 100 million dollars to getting GIS mapping software, ArcGIS, into schools across the country. The project is part of a global billion dollar initiative to introduce students to the power of spatial data and information and equip teachers to lead them there.
The program will provide both the software and data for teaching, as well as tutorials and questions for guided discussions. Sample projects are available for a variety of subjects to investigate human and scientific issues that can be analysed using spatial data.
GIS technology is broadly deployed across Australia’s private and public sectors, including the mining sector, utilities, law enforcement, retail and at all levels of government...
