Bangladesh newspaper notes AIT's role in disaster reduction
A story entitled 'Collaboration for disaster reduction' appeared on the editorial page of Bangladesh 's independent newspaper, The New Nation, on Saturday, 18 February 2006 . The piece mentioned AIT's collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The Japanese agency has been supporting activities for capacity building of remote sensing and geographic information systems that could help in disaster reduction through AIT's Geoinformatics Center . The story points out the importance of sharing data and notes that AIT is working on networks to do just that.