2008年7月24日

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 "The Development of GIS Applications for Social Sciences and Humanities in Malaysia: Current Status, Issues and Prospects"

講師:Professor  Ruslan  Rainis (マレーシア科学大学教授)

日時:2008年7月24日(木) 11:30~12:30
場所:【衣笠】立命館大学アート・リサーチセンター 多目的ルーム
【BKC】立命館大学情報理工学部メディア情報学科会議室(予定)
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【要 旨】

This brief seminar will provide an overview of GIS development and applications in Malaysia with special reference to Social Sciences and Humanities. Malaysia, like many other countries has been trying to benefits from the development of GIS since it was introduced about 40 years ago. Surprisingly, it found out that the first attempt to use GIS in Malaysia was started in the 1970s.  The implementation and monitoring of various socio-economic development programs under the National Development Plan (commonly known as Malaysia Plan) demanded for an integrated and centralised databases. To this end, at the beginning of the Third Malaysia Plan (i.e. 1976), the Federal Government commissioned Universiti Sains Malaysia to develop a National Integrated Data System (NIDaS). One component of NIDaS was GIS. Unfortunately, due to various reasons, this project did not take off beyond its pilot project stage. 

In 1986, the Department of Survey and Mapping initiated the Computer Aided Mapping System (CAMS) project to convert the national topographical maps into digital format. Later in 1992 the first statewide GIS was initiated by the Penang State Government. In 1997, the Federal Government initiated the National Land Information InfraStructure (NaLIS) project to provide a gateway for data sharing among the various government agencies at the national, state and local levels. However, this project did not take off smoothly, and was replaced by the Malaysian Centre for Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MaCGDI) in 2002.

In terms of applications, most of the early applications were mainly focused on physical environment and land resources such as agriculture, forestry, environmental assessment and monitoring, geohazards, urban planning and coastal resources. The applications of GIS in social sciences and humanities are very recent, not until towards the end of 1990s, and still not widespread but showing increasing trends. These applications include population and demographic studies, poverty, community health, political behaviour, crime, linguistics, archaeology and natural heritage. 

The slow development of GIS applications in Malaysia was due to several factors. These include the lack of access to digital data and GIS softwares, lack of awareness among users, financial and institutional constraints. However, with the recent progress on several national initiatives and commitment especially the setting up of MaCGDI and Opensource GIS, we foresee that GIS has promising prospects in Malaysia in the coming years.   

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