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I ll go through them very rapidly. The first thing ! would like to say is 
a first comment to myself: why are Working Groups 2 and 7 combined? 
Another thing is the possibility, mentioned yesterday, of the ISPRS 
putting together a manual of G1S-L1S. I thought it was a good Idea but 
probably more important is to have a sufficient number of basic text 
books in the area. This because GIS-LIS are rapidly changing fields so 
by the time that a manual arrives it will be mostly out of date. In 
ASPRS a new manual of photographic interpretation which is probably a 
much slower changing field (the last one since 1960), is prepared, But 
my understanding is that in the case of the manual of R5 which is now 
in its second edition wouldn't be rewised in total but rather in 
sections, f.e. a chapter or a group of chapters on a particular subject 
and perhaps to produce something a subset of the whole thing. It is 
good that prof. Barns is undertaking review of L1S-GIS textbooks. How 
about somebody undertaking the task of making a survey of low cost 
US-GIS software for educational applications useful to the 
universities? 
The last thing 1 would like to mention I thing that both in RS 
and G1S education we are getting more and more into computer based 
solutions. So there is a great need for the students to understand the 
fundamentals, the basic principals, the kind of algebra they are working 
on, in other words to know what exactly is the magic in the black box. 
Without this there is a great danger of great deal of misinformation. 
GQSCH: 
There are two important subjects 1 would like to refer to: 
1. Working Groups 
2. Publications. 
1. With regard to the WGs I would like to say that WGs 2 and 
7 were always combined, only this time they were separated and new 
ideas on GIS and LIS were added. However for the last 8 years during 
my chairmanship of the education WG we had exellent activities and 
progress. Personally I had put my efforts into organizing regional 
educational conferences and we had great success in two of them. 
Currently a new South American regional conference on education is 
being prepared and it will come up this year or early next year. 
2. With regard to publicationsin the Third World I would like 
to say that despite the existing constraints in language, economics and 
politics, they do really exist to a great extent, only they are sporadic. 
There are publications in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brasil, Argentina, 
Korea, Morocco to name a few