The researchers feel this visualisation is not of value unless it is culturally relevant. The SAC has a unique satellite data set of the region. That they are using increasingly to visualise environmental impact studies. An AG2001 committee meeting was held at the CSIR facilities at Hartebeeshoek, to which the delegation was invited. Not all the AG2001 committee were in attendance.
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More inclusion of the local community was also discussed and this led to the AGKids proposal where children in the local community will get to experience some of the aspects of AG2001. Some felt that it was important to include the recent Presidential Directives in the call for papers. The Wits people believe that network bandwidth is not the problem for obtaining electronic material, such as the ACM DL, but rather it is the reliability of the networks that is a problem. They would like to see computer graphics become a bigger part of their curriculum. There was also interest by both groups in being part of the proposed ACM DL consortia.