The EENGO secretariat are hosting a Members’ Plenary Session and Capacity Building Day on Thursday, 29th November, 2007 from 09.00 to 16.30.

It will be held at the Cultivate Center, 15 – 19 Essex St West, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 (map)

All members are welcome, but please contact Danny Walsh at danny@eengosec.ie to confirm that you will attend.

Program of events

09.00 – 10.15 Networking Breakfast

Join other members for an Informal sharing your work, tables for examples of flyers and publications available. A great opportunity to meet fellow members

10.15 – 11.00 The Charities Bill: how it can affect you?

Ivan Cooper of The Wheel will outline the implications of the Charities Bill for NGOs.

11.00 – 12.30 Open Session – Working together

This session will allow members to discuss issues of common concern, and planning cooperation.

If you have topics you would like to discuss please forward them to Danny Walsh, dan...@eengosec.ie

12.30 – 13.00 Networking Lunch

An opportunity to meet other members over lunch

13.00 – 14.00 EENGO AGM

The EENGO Annual General Meeting

14.00 – 14-30 Break

14.30 – 16.30 Capacity Building Workshop: “Using GIS/ GPS in our work”

GIS is a valuable tool that can help us to manage our natural resources and environmental systems more effectively. It enables users to discover relationships not visible when dealing with non-spatial data and can also help us to communicate these relationships through the production of visually compelling and dynamic maps.

This workshop will introduce and explain what GIS /GPS is and how it can be applied to your work.

Eamonn Donnelly
Originally qualified and worked as a land surveyor, has been lecturing in GIS in DIT for past twenty years. Completed a MSc in Sustainable Development in 2000.

Ainhoa Gonzalez
Environmental analyst and consultant – completing a Phd on the potential benefits and constraints of applying GIS to Strategic Environmental Assessment

Abhilash Edathil
Associate Manager- EMEA Consumer Operations, Google Ireland Ltd Dublin. Managing operations for Google Geo Products such as Google Earth and Maps