Riku Oja

Land use planning is a complex process involving legal frameworks, decision making, participation with the community and skills for making maps that are artistic but still comprehensible to both experts and laypeople.

In many countries, access to schooling is one of the key measures of performance of the education system. It is not always known how long learners walk to school, even if the buffer distance is set by policy.

The presentation will share how UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) applies FOSS4G technologies to advance Ministries of Education’s use of geospatial data in planning better educational results among school children.