At the invitation of Faculty of Land Management, in the morning of November 11, 2018 ESRI Vietnam Limited Company came to work with the Faculty on the use of the ArcGIS platform to support universities in Vietnam in teaching and research on Geographic Information System (GIS).

The ESRI Company side was led by Mr. Michael Gould, Director, ESRI Education Support Specialist; Mr. Wuttiboon Faamnauypol, ESRI Vietnam General Director; and Mr. Vu Huu Tuan, Service Manager of ESRI Vietnam. On the side of the Faculty of Land Management attended by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Quoc Vinh, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Land Management; lecturers from Department of Land Information System, Department of Geodesy, and Faculty of Information Technology, who are interested in GIS.

At the meeting, Mr. Michael Gould presented the ArcGIS application platform and support solution of ESRI for global education. Representatives of Faculty of Land Management introduced the current situation of teaching and applied GIS at Vietnam National University of Agriculture. Afterwards, the two sides exchanged and shared the problems in using ArcGIS software, discussing the building of ArcGIS platform for the University for GIS teaching and research. The two sides agreed to develop the terms of support to proceed to sign cooperation agreement on the support of ESRI Company for Vietnam National University of Agriculture.