Invitation

Belgrade, 26 May 2008

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are glad to invite you to the one-day conference “Cities developing integrated Territorial Information Systems TIS. Exchange of experiences and lessons learnt in Serbia” that will be held at the Sava center in Belgrade on 12 June 2008.

The main objective of the Conference is to stimulate a DIALOGUE for cities and municipalities that have been working with UN-HABITAT and other Serbian municipalities through sharing of experiences and lessons learned in developing municipal Territorial Information Systems TIS supported by GIS technologies.

The specific objectives of the conference are two fold: to facilitate the exchange of experiences and lessons learned from municipalities in Serbia; and to flag out key issues emanating from experience to find common solutions to face challenges and overcome constraints. The underlying goal is to stimulate debate and action needed for replication and scaling up of good practices and enhancing impact. The experiences presented, the highlights of the workshop sessions and their conclusions will be systematically captures in the proceedings of the conference and will be widely available for public dissemination.

The conference combines key note dynamic presentations with plenary discussions and highly interactive workshop sessions. Main themes for the two parallel workshop sessions are: 1. Achieving integration of information, institutional organization for municipal TIS; 2. Achieving quality, technical solutions for the development of municipal TIS.

The conference “Cities developing integrated Territorial Information Systems TIS. Exchange of experiences and lessons learnt in Serbia” will continue the Cycle of thematic conferences CITIES IN DIALOGUE, programmed from December 2007 to June 2008, that UN-HABITAT the United Nations Human Settlements Programme Office for Serbia is organizing in collaboration with the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities, and with the Ministry of Infrastructure. The Cycle of thematic conferences CITIES IN DIALOGUE is financed by the Government of Italy within the SIRP Programme.

Hoping that you will be able to attend, actively participate and contribute to our conference, we remain

Sincerely yours,