The Geospatial Excellence Award is granted to meritorious projects which have made significant and measurable contributions towards the development of new geospatial applications or innovative modification of existing geospatial technology practices to substantially reduce project costs.

One of the categories of the award is for the usage of Geospatial Technology for Environment Management. Green Belt Movement is using Geospatial Technology for change detection which is critical for understanding what is happening with Kenya's forests and forests across Africa. Green Belt Movement has extensively used Geospatial technology to monitor the growth of the trees and the change in forest cover over time after plantation. GPS units have been used to find out the right locations during replanting projects.

GIS Development is organizing Map World Forum on 10-13 February 2009 at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, India.