GI & PSI

Geographical Information

Public Sector Information

European Union Projects

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Outline of Presentation

Geographical Information, content and the

economy

Geographical Information and EU Policy

Geographical Information in South-East

Europe

Opportunities and future solutions Technology and collaboration

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Geographical Information

Source: Pira International Ltd., Sept. 2000

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Spatial is Special

Almost everything that happens, happens

somewhere

Multi-dimensional

Voluminous – large amounts of data

Projections necessary for visualization

Special methods necessary for analysis (GIS)

Many types of spatial data

Many applications

GI resides in many public organizations (NMAs)

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EU policies and Spatial Data

Increasing interest for the spatial dimension GI-GIS needed to

Assess needs, policy formulation, monitoring its implementation, evaluation of its effectiveness, …

GI-GIS explicitly required in EU directives/regulations

Water Framework directive, Habitat, IACS, Olive Trees registers, Urban, Noise, …

Increasing demand for better GI Such information is often available locally

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European data ?

we have islands of data of different standards and quality...

Lack of use of standards incompatible information incompatible information systems fragmentation of information redundancy

Lack of co-ordination across boarders between levels of government

Lack of data

Lack of infrastructure

Data policy restrictions pricing, copyright, access rights,

licensing policy

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EU Policy

Public Sector Information Directive

Directive 90/313/EC on freedom of access to

information on the environment

6th Environmental action programme Integrated policy-making:

4 priorities: climate change, nature and biodiversity, environment and health, waste and resources

INSPIRE European spatial data infrastructure delivers integrated spatial information services will become a directive in 2006

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EU Programmes

Galileo GMES RTD Framework Programmes eContent programme

Euroregiomap, Euroglobalmap, e-earth, Euroroads

eContent+ budget € 149 million for 2005-2008 multi-lingual content for innovative, on-line services across

the EU Special attention GI pan-European frameworks

services, information infrastructures, etc. facilitating discovery of and access to digital content

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Spatial Data Projects in Bulgaria

Donor funded projects contribute to SDI EU, GTZ, USAID, Matra, … Environment, cadastre

Research Framework Projects WELL-GIS

West-East Linked Laboratories in GIS

PANEL-GIPan-European Link for GI

GISEEGIS Technology and Market in SEE – a market study

Digital-SEEDistributed Geo-Warehouse for SEE

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Project GISEE

GIS Technology and Market in South East EuropeA Study contributing to the SDI in South East Europe

IST - 2001 – 37994, September 2002 – October 2003

Document the spatial data infrastructures in the countries of South East Europe

First Survey in SEE

Questionnaire: Organization, Technology, Data Organization, Spatial Data, Meta Data

Policy recommendations and roadmap for SDI

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The problem

Spatial Data exist throughout the region

Access to data difficult Data owners are not known Access conditions are not made available Data are not compatible

Lack of collaboration between data owners and

providers

Unclear procedures and planning

Lack of financing

Problems are inter-dependent !

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The Way Forward

Technical Facilitate data access and

sharing User and demand driven

Organizational Coordination and

Integration Community Building

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Technology - The Vision

Digital Earth Single portal to all knowledge about the geographic

world Browsable 3D version of the earth Tying together data from multiple sources Al Gore 1998

Digital South-East Europe Implements Digital Earth in SEE Unites the countries of SEE

Digital SEE – technology for data sharing across the region

eContent project

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Digital Earth Digital SEE

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Collaboration: AGISEE

Vision enable sharing of data for the benefit of the

economic development of the region Goals

to unite the GI community and interested parties in South-East Europe;

to promote the use of GI and to contribute to building SDI in the region;

to represent the GI sector in South-East Europe and outside;

to support and provide relevant information to its members; and to act as enabler for new opportunities to members.

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http://www.agisee.org

Member Entry

Become a member !

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Conclusions

Technology enables new access methods and cheaper access to data

Market and user demand Sound policy and business planning needed Donors need to see a consistent strategy

Money is not the first problem

AGISEE is to helpdevelop collaboration,strategy and planning

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Thank you for your attention !

Acknowledgements European Commission

GISEE Consortium

AGISEE Managing Board

Ulrich Boes

AGISEE (Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe) agisee@agisee.org

URSIT Ltd.Ulrich.Boes@ursit.com