Specialists in the field will present the use of digital geographic data and available free GIS software. The general objective of the workshop is to get participants familiarized with the software (GIS) and with the prospects of using it, in order to carry out specific tasks at their working places. The operational objectives of the workshop include: understanding the GIS's spatial relationship; ways to represent elements in GIS; explaining the underlying principles of GIS representations; use of digital geographic data and available GIS software for spatial analyses etc.