{"id":660,"date":"2009-11-19T06:20:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T23:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/wordpress\/?p=660"},"modified":"2016-05-03T21:42:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T04:42:29","slug":"day-1-gisday-success-in-timor-leste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/660","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 (#GISDay) &#8211; Success in&nbsp;Timor-Leste!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coinciding with GIS Day, the first day of the GIS\/mapping event in Timor-Leste (<a title=\"Ho Mapa, Ita Harii Futuru Timor-Leste\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/wordpress\/archives\/653\">With maps, we build the future of Timor-Leste<\/a>) was a success. Given this type of event is the first of its kind in the country, the opening day went smoothly&#8230; although there were some bumps along the way as I expected.<\/p>\n<p>But overall the turnout was great&#8230; in the morning, we had lots of people out from the <a title=\"GIG\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/gigtimorleste\" target=\"_blank\">Geographic Information Group (GIG)<\/a> showing their support. Even a group of women, like from &#8220;Sex and the City&#8221;, came around because they wanted to show their friend, who was celebrating her birthday, a good time and to visit the &#8220;new&#8221; exhibition at Casa Europa. The highlights of the day was a visit by the Deputy Special Rep. for the UN Secretary General (my boss) and the Deputy Head of the European Commission. Even the US Ambassador sneaked in for a peak, who when I asked how he knew about the event told me, &#8220;Well, you invited me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-663\" title=\"US Ambassador taking a look at the large floor map\" src=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dscn2041.jpg\" alt=\"US Ambassador taking a look at the large floor map\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dscn2041.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dscn2041-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinciding with GIS Day, the first day of the GIS\/mapping event in Timor-Leste (With maps, we build the future of Timor-Leste) was a success. Given this type of event is the first of its kind in the country, the opening day went smoothly&#8230; although there were some bumps along the way as I expected. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 1 (#GISDay) &#8211; Success in&nbsp;Timor-Leste!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[31,32,35,36,47,63,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}