Nigeria and Senegal. It is bilingual in English and French. 
It is to offer courses in photogrammetry, photo-interpretation 
and airborne geophysical surveys at all levels but it is now 
only offering technicians and operators courses in photo- 
grammetry. Students on the present courses are from Benin, 
Ghana, Ethiopia, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra-Leone, 
Uganda and Zaire. It is being proposed to start soon an 
engineer's course in photogrammetry and courses in photo-inter- 
pretation for specialists in disciplines like geology and 
forestry. Although the courses are given in both English and 
French, English students will be expected to learn French and 
vice versa. This will not only enable them to derive maximum 
e o benefit from the courses but will also help in breaking the 
language barrier in Africa. This Centre at Ife is still at 
the embryonic stage and as it developes it will have to play 
an increasing role in photogrammetric training in Africa. The 
I.T.C. has been making a substantial contribution to the 
establishment and development of the Centre and it is already 
encouraging African students to go to the Ife Centre for 
training in photogrammetry. 
  
Prior to the establishment of the Centre at Ife, Nigeria the 
I.T.C. also had collaborated with the Indian Government to 
establish the Indian Photo-interpretation Institute at Dehra Dun, 
India in May, 1966. This was as a result of the resolution 
adopted at the United Nations Cartographic Conference for Asia 
and the Far East at Bangkok which advocated the setting up of 
regional centres for photogrammetry and photo-interpretation. 
This institute provides courses in photo-interpretation both 
at post-graduate level and for those requiring knowledge of 
photo-interpretation in disciplines like forestry, geology, 
e e soil surveys and engineering. 
Although technicians are required in large numbers, the 
institutions for technician's training are few. It may not be 
practicable for training institutions to be established in 
every country; the establishment of such institutions may 
even be beyond the resources of many countries. But countries 
without institutions of their own could avail themselves of 
the facilities in the other developing countries. Training 
institutions could also be established to serve groups of 
countries. Such regional institutions should be able to 
attract assistance from donor countries and organisations for jt is 
more beneficial to the developing countries for donor countries 
to offer substantial aid to a group of countries than to 
disperse their aid amongst very many countries.