1. Membership Drive:

As at the 2008 Beijing Congress, Africa has 16 Ordinary members, 1 Associate member, 5 Regional members and 3 Sustaining members - a total of 25 members.
In October 2009, the African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education - English (ARCSSTE-E), Ile-Ife, Nigeria became a regional member, increasing the number of Regional members to 6 and an overall total of 26 members.

ISPRS hand bills were also distributed to participants and the Society's poster displayed in the AARSE/ISPRS booth at the First meeting of the Committee on Development Information, Science and Technology (CODIST-1) of the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in April 2009 and also during the AfricaGIS 2009 conference in Kampala in October 2009.

2. ISPRS Events in Africa:

The following two (co-sponsored) ISPRS events took place during AfricaGIS 2009 conference from 26 - 30 October 2009 in Kampala, Uganda:
(a) A pre-conference workshop to explore Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems - GEOSS Organised in association with ITC, UNEDRA, ICEO, OGC, UNSPIDER, and ISPRS from 23rd - 25th October 2009.
(b) Two ISPRS TC VI Special Sessions on 27th and 28th October 2009 during the conference. Session 1 was on ‘Frameworks and curricula for cross border education in Earth Observation and Spatial Information Sciences' while Session 2 was on ‘Methods and best practices for e-learning in Earth Observation and Spatial Information Sciences'.
The events were well attended.

3. Proposed ISPRS Regional Event in Africa:

Following the in-principle approval of Council, discussions are being intensified to commence a biennial ISPRS African regional conference starting in 2011. Three organisations have expressed their interests in co-organising the event: these are the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE), the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and the African Leadership Conference on Space Science and Technology (ALC). The period and full modalities will be made known very soon after completing on-going discussions.