The Role of the GIS in the Development Planning of the Islamic Capitals & Citiesby Amr Ali El-Sabban, Technical Director, OICC, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Amr Ali El-Sabban |
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1. Introduction - Over the past 50 years the steady growth of Information Technology has provided new tools of collecting, storing, handling, analyzing and managing the astronomical quantities of information in a form of enhanced images or spatial data. Developed countries have already acquired and implemented these tools and incorporated them into their information management systems, thus expedite the sustainability development of their countries. Developing countries are suffering from their overload economic problems. It has become evident that, in order to protect their investments, and their development planning objectives a systematic approach to management and maintenance of existing urban infrastructure is urgently required to control the quick deterioration of the transport and municipal services. Developing countries are doing now their best to acquire and apply such systems to create developed services in planning to produce and making full use of the sustainability developments in information systems.
Due to the fact that the members of the Organiztion of the Islamic Capitals and Cities (OICC), which represent 54 countries, are of varying income levels, this paper aim to analyze different applications derived from GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS implementation in the OICC member cities.
The paper will introduce various brief summary of case studies derived from different economic levels of the OICC members (Qatar, Oman, Egypt, ...) and will go through the analysis of the applications.
2. Applications from different Islamic cities (Cairo, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Jakarta, Qatar, ...)
3. Applications Problems.
4. Between the developed and developing countries experiences.
5. GIS networking between the OICC members.
6. Conclusion.
Amr Ali El-Sabban - Profile :
Amr Ali El-Sabban has worked as a technical assistant in
the Organization of Islamic Capitals & Cities "OICC"
from 1991 to 1995 and since thwn has been working as a
Technical Director at OICC. Between 1985 and 1990 he has
also worked at "Development and popular Housing Co.",
Housing Ministry, Urban Planning and Architectural design
departments.
He has a BSc. degree in Architectural Engineering and Two
years "Urban Planning" Diploma from Faculty of Engineering,
Cairo University. He also has a Post Graduate Diploma from
Rotterdam Netherlands, Institute for housing studies (IHS).
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