Botswana Geoscience Portal goes live

Developed and hosted by Geosoft, the portal provides free access to multi-disciplinary datasets from Ngamiland, a district in the country's northwest. It is available online at: http://geoscienceportal.geosoft.com/Botswana/search.

The geoscience portal aims to help Botswana attract new investment in resource exploration, improve transparency and stimulate collaboration between government, industry and the public to advance understanding of the economic and social needs of the North-West district.

Tiyapo Hudson Ngwisanyi, Chief Executive Officer of the Botswana Geoscience Institute said: "Making geoscientific data more accessible and transparent is critical to furthering understanding of the North-West district, and encouraging new investment in resource exploration within Africa. The portal is a welcome development that will assist us in promoting ongoing, productive collaboration between government and industry."

"Geosoft is excited to be part of an initiative that demonstrates how government and industry can work together to encourage mineral exploration investment and thus downstream economic growth in the country," said Tim Dobush, Chief Executive Officer of Geosoft. "We are continually engaging with government organizations like the Botswana Geoscience Institute and industry leaders to innovate, and maximize the value of geoscience data for resource discovery and to meet the social/economic needs of the broader public sector."

Data available on the Botswana Geoscience Portal includes airborne geophysics, ground geophysics and geochemistry. Future updates will provide access to borehole data, remote sensing, seismic surveys and information products including interpretations and 3D models.

As data volumes continue to grow, improving the management of geoscience data for better transparency, collaboration and discovery has become a key priority for global government organizations. More information on challenges and solutions is available at http://www.geosoft.com/geoscience-information-management.

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