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He has a degree in Physics from the University of Milan and worked in the private sector until 1996, managing companies specialising in GIS, earth observation and software development. He joined the JRC in 1997. Alessandro has more than 25 years experience in various environmental fields, working on spatial planning, spatial analysis, environmental modelling, geoinformation and related technologies, remote sensing, image processing, system design and software development. He has participated in several European projects (GIGAS, ORCHESTRA, GINIE, ETEMII, PANEL-GI, NATURE-GIS, GIPSIE, SAFIR, DOCMIX,..) and is author, co-author and editor of over 100 papers and books. Since 2006 he has been appointed as Co-Chair of the GEOSS Architecture and Data Committee. Alessandro is also a member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Digital Earth.

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Hugo De Groof studied geography and informatics in Belgium. He has been working since 1986 for the European Commission. He spend twelve years in the Joint Research Centre of the Commission in Italy before moving to the Directorate-General for the Environment in Brussels. Since 2001 a major part of his responsibilities as Principal-Administrator regard the preparation, negotiation and implementation of the INSPIRE directive, which entered into force on the 15th of May.

Robert F. Austin, Ph.D., GISP, is the Manager of Enterprise Applications Integration for the City of Tampa, Florida, USA. Before joining municipal government, Dr. Austin worked internationally as a GIS consultant and project manager for 23 years. His has held faculty positions at the University of Missouri, Oxford Polytechnic, Virginia Polytechnic and the University of Tampa. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a past member of the GIS Certification Institute Board of Directors and the 2010-2011 President of the Geospatial Information and Technology Association. In 2010, he received an appointment by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to the National Geospatial Advisory Committee.

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Guidelines for Geospatial Data Sharing
One of the challenges of the geospatial community is to foster data sharing and collaboration among multiple agencies and organizations, across multiple levels of public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Successful interagency collaboration is based on 1) adopting guiding principles for data sharing, 2) identifying best practices and enablers, 3) recognizing the challenges to data sharing and 4) determining a path forward.

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Daniel Shannon is a Senior Program Manager in the Technology Strategy division with TELUS Communications. Previously he served as Systems Architect responsible for developing TELUS’ Geospatial Technology Road Map. He was also Manager of Data Operations for TELUS Geomatics. Dan has authored several GIS business cases, and project managed large GIS data conversion and systems migrations. Daniel graduated from the College of New Caledonia's Drafting Technology program. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Knowledge Management from Royal Roads University and an MBA from Athabasca University. Over the past several years Daniel has spoken and taught across North America, Asia and the Middle East on Geospatial issues such as GIS Project Management, Return on Investment and GIS Re-engineering. Daniel is the President of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) and is a Director and Past President of British Columbia’s Integrated Cadastral Initiative Society (ICIS). He is also a member of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Geomatics Advisory Committee.

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Data Sharing and integration is a particularly daunting challenge for firms with geographically distributed assets, whose operating territories span numerous administrative boundaries. Federating information from multiple sources is a labour intensive process which is further complicated by a lack of commonly adhered to data standards and conventions. In Canada, communications companies and utilities that span provincial boundaries have a unique opportunity to work with several provincial and regional jurisdictions who have each approached the challenge of establishing Spatial Data Infrastructures intended to enable inter-entity sharing and collaboration. Some have focused strictly on providing a common cadastre base using a Not For Profit with joint private public governance. Others have evolved from a public private partnership into a strictly for profit private enterprise. Perhaps the most interesting and innovative approach to a Spatial Data Infrastructure has been in British Columbia where a not for profit society called ICIS, the Integrated Cadastre Information Society has employed an evolutionary approach and achieved success through a relentless commitment to collaboration. ICIS has been able to overcome the a lack of actual data sharing; a deficiency that defeats so many Public Private Partnerships in their attempts to establish an effective Spatial Data Infrastructure. ICIS began by employing a minimalist approach to the technical aspects of an SDI and invested the bulk of their energy instead into developing relationships and building trust. It is challenging to develop a commonly supported vision with identifiable value for private sector partners as well as provincial, regional, local, and first nations governments. Each have diverse interests and needs. ICIS’ success in establishing an SDI that is seen as vital by its public and private sector members make it a model that warrants the international attention it has received.

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Anil Kumar has nearly two decades of experience in managing and implementing geospatial systems and solutions. Anil’s interests includes Spatial Data Infrastructures, Decision Support Systems, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture, Knowledge Management, etc. Currently he is the Acting Director of Environment Information Management at the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD). Anil's responsibilities includes ensuring strategic alignment of business, information and technology, and leveraging geospatial technologies in decision making. Prior to joining EAD, Anil had worked with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the Centre for GIS, Qatar. Anil holds Master's Degrees in Marine Geology, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and Post Graduate Certification in Business Administration.

Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes holds a BSc in Cartographic Engineering (1981), a MSc in Computer Science applied to Cartography (1997), and a Ph.D. in Geomatics Engineering (University of Calgary, 2002). He has been working during the past 28 years for the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE, in Brazil, where he currently holds the position of Director of Geosciences. He is also President of the Permanent Committee for Geospatial Data Infrastructure of the Americas (PC-IDEA). He holds the position of Associate Professor at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro as well.

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Providing Data to SDI: The Role of the Public and Private Sectors
At the core of any Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is data availability. No SDI will evolve without the proper provision of updated and comprehensive geospatial data covering its geographic domain. This comprises, at least, reference (i.e., framework) and thematic data. Additionally, data has to be shared broadly and according to adopted standards, so that users can find, access and use it in the most effective way. In this scenario, the role of data providers has traditionally been played by government entities, whose production of certified (accredited) data is key for many applications. Complementary, private companies have been participating in different phases of the geospatial data production process, more often on demand, as data service contractors. Nevertheless, both sectors benefit from the establishment of a SDI, for example, by the improvement of the services provided by government agencies, and by new derivative products generated by private companies. Nowadays the high demand for geospatial data and information is unquestionable. In the fast changing environment of our planet, as the high cost of geospatial data production is still an issue, governmental data providers have been struggling to meet the demand in a timely fashion, especially in continental-size countries or regions of the globe, like Brazil and the Americas. At the same time, the development of new geotechnologies has largely contributed to massive data collection applications, as, for example, those related to the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and to high resolution remote sensing imagery, many of them under the auspices of the industry. Under the above scope, this presentation shows the efforts of IBGE in terms of providing data to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (INDE, in Portuguese) and the challenges associated with its completion and continuous update. In this scenario, new business models that could make government institutions and private companies work in tune and more synergetically, as in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), must properly address the constraints and rules that generally govern the relationship between these parties. At the same time those models, whenever applicable to a given context, may help fostering the development of a SDI.

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Maarten van Gool, born in 1965, is a Dutch national. He joined TomTom as Chief Financial Officer for Tele Atlas in October 2008. From July 1st, 2010 until end 2011 Maarten was MD Licensing within the TomTom Group. As of January, 2012, he became CFO for the Automotive, Enterprise & Government Business Unit within TomTom.
Maarten van Gool served as Chief Financial Officer of Tele Atlas NV., a TomTom subsidiary. He managed Finance, Treasury, Legal, Information Systems and Human Resources worldwide for Tele Atlas. Since July 1st, 2010 Maarten was MD TomTom Licensing. The Licensing business unit leverages our wealth of geospatial content across the group in order to deliver relevant, fresh and high-quality digital maps, and content, to a wide range of customers. Our customers range from leading PND manufacturers, internet companies, mobile phone handset manufacturers and network operators as well as governments and enterprises. Our product range includes the world's most comprehensive automotive-grade digital maps covering over 100 countries and territories as well as services such as Speed Profiles and our real-time traffic service HD Traffic. From January, 2012 Maarten took responsibilities as business Unit CFO for the Automotive, Enterprise & Government Business Unit within TomTom.

Maarten joined TomTom (Tele Atlas) from measurement instruments and solutions leader Agilent Technologies, Inc. He served as the Global Compliance Director for Agilent. Before Agilent, Maarten served in several Finance leadership positions in Hewlett Packard. In total 17 years of experience in large multinational environment of which five on assignment in California, USA. In depth knowledge and hands- on experience in financial & operations management as well as global fiduciary compliance. Heholds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Amsterdam Business School.

Jean-Philippe GRELOT is graduated engineer from École Polytechnique, France and from the French National College for Geographical Sciences. Within IGN, he has developed automated production lines and be head of cartographic units (1979-1986), head of the printing division (1986-1988) and sales and marketing director (1988-2000). After dealing with crises management at national level, he has been appointed deputy director general of IGN in 2010, chair of IGN France International and member of EuroGeographics’ management board. He was vice president of the International Cartographic Association (1987-1991) and secretary general and treasurer (1991-1999). He has been awarded Honorary Fellowship of the International Cartographic Association and the Hellenic Cartographic Society.

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From a national mapping agency perspective, users’ expectations about spatial data are developing simultaneously in various ways, mainly more datasets, higher accuracy and faster up-to-datedness. Responding without additional means and budget is impossible without dramatic technological changes and/or structural changes such as collaborative processes widely open to organisations and individuals. Having this in mind, the first expectation of a mapping agency for the national spatial data infrastructure in the information era could be: all organisations and individuals should consider the infrastructure as a common good, and thus contribute to its completion and updating as they will receive a larger return from the many contributions. The mapping agency has public service responsibilities, for instance continuity and equal access services, in addition to technical responsibilities such as homogeneity, completion, accuracy and up-to-datedness. It has basically a custody role to compile and give access to authoritative datasets, neutral in their contents, all consistent in their taxonomy, geometric accuracy and topology, and well documented through unambiguous and opened metadata. Maintaining and developing datasets in this respect requires facing a number of challenges. The first one is economical sustainability at a time of budget costs in government administration: the economic model associated with the initial funding and appropriate licensing rules has to be challenged against sustainability criteria. The second challenge is more technical and organisational. It deals with the capacity of collecting information from a huge number of sensors and contributors, to assess and use them either directly for completing and updating purposes or indirectly as indicators for further completions and updates. IGN has experienced a first collaborative tool with fire departments and other local public authorities. It is currently looking for new and wider opportunities in conjunction with the third version of its geoportal to be launched next summer.

Dr. Antti Jakobsson is a Programmes Manager at EuroGeographics, and the chairman of the Cartographic Society of Finland. He has been working as chief engineer at the National Land Survey of Finland in development of national mapping and National Spatial Data Infrastructure. He is recognised universally for his extensive knowledge of quality assurance principles and practice. He is a regular contributor to the development of ISO and CEN standards.

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EuroGeographics is a not-for-profit organization representing 56 national mapping, land registries and cadastral agencies in 45 countries. It has a long experience on building harmonized datasets based on its member’s data. Currently we provide data for Global and European usages through our products. INSPIRE directive sets a new basis for rethinking how we can meet the interoperability challenge in Europe. How we can make it happen in reality for European reference data is a major challenge. Therefore EuroGeographics with its partners are suggesting building a European Location Framework (E.L.F). This paper will discuss how it can be achieved from a technical aspect. Completed in February 2011, the eContentplus funded ESDIN project was collaboration between 20 consortium partners. It successfully showed how data from European NMCAs can be harmonised to meet INSPIRE obligations whilst also addressing issues such as generalisation, quality evaluation, edge-matching and access control. Even with INSPIRE-compliant data users can suffer from an unreliable reference if the pan-European or cross-border data is not: Edge-matched correctly at a national boundary; Quality assured Generalised consistently; or Lifecycle managed effectively The E.L.F is based on a set of specifications for reference data. These specifications support interoperability across resolutions and themes and between countries for topographic, administrative and cadastral reference data. The E.LF is not a paper exercise, we need to build reference data services and ensure that these services are funded from Member States, the European Commission and users.

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Dr. Hiroshi Murakami is currently the Director-General of Geospatial Information Department of the Geospatial Information Authority (GSI) of the Japanese Government, the former Geographical Survey Institute. He has been working extensively on R&D and policy development on GIS and SDI in GSI for the past 29 years since 1983 including his appointment to Chief of the UN Cartographic Section in 2001 until 2005. He holds Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in the US, and Masters in Geophysics from Graduate School of Science of the Tohoku University in Japan. He is currently the Vice President of PCGIAP.

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NSDI Policy Framework of Japan
The policy framework on NSDI in Japan is largely formed by two legal instruments: the Survey Act and the Basic Act Utilizing Geospatial Information (called “NSDI Act”). The Survey Act was enacted in 1949 to rebuild the country quickly after WWII by regulating the surveying and mapping work that is to be conducted by public organizations, ensuring the accuracies of and reducing duplicated efforts in surveying and mapping. This Act has been instrumental in keeping the quality of results in surveying and mapping high and making their specifications mostly homogeneous throughout the country. In the early 2000’s when digital geospatial information has matured to play a vital role in the country, particularly combined with the satellite positioning technology and its sophisticated applications, a number of political leaders considered it necessary to have new legislation to address the national agenda in making maximum use of geospatial information by taking advantage of the synergistic combination of the GIS and satellite positioning technologies. Their vision was materialized by the legislation of the NSDI Act in 2007, which has a provision of developing a nation-wide standard geospatial framework data for the first time in the country. This Act calls upon the Government to prepare and implement a long-term plan to realize the vision of geospatial information society provided in the Act, and to set up a framework for policy dialogue between industry, academia and the Government.This paper/presentation briefly summarizes the overview of these two Acts as well as the roles of Geospatial Information Authority of Japan in enforcing them, and addresses some outstanding challenges for the furtherance of NSDI in the country.

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Ricky graduated from the University of Windsor with degrees in Physics, Computer Science and Mathematics. He started his career as a Technical Support Engineer for Bing Maps and quickly moved up to the role of GIS. In 2009 Ricky co-founded the Bing Maps UK user group. In 2010 he co-founded a software consultancy called InKnowledge. In 2010 he was also awarded the title of “King of Bing” after winning a software development contest for Bing Maps. In the summer of 2011 Ricky joined the Microsoft team and took on the role as the EMEA Bing Maps Technology Solution Professional.

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The Bing Maps Platform brings location data to life by making it easier to visualize, understand, and analyze. The rich imagery, quality geospatial data, and leading-edge technology of Bing Maps is already being used by thousands of organizations, governments, and developers worldwide. With a wide range of tools and API’s and an Enterprise focus, Bing Maps makes for an ideal solution for Enterprise companies. In this presentation we will review the different API’s and functionalities available in Bing Maps and will take a quick look at how it is being used to solve real world problems.

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Guenther Pichler holds a degree in Mathematics and IT from the University of Technology in Graz, Austria. For 28 years he has held different positions with GIS software vendors including technical support, product management, sales, account management and business development. From 2002 to 2006 he served as Director Business Development Europe for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) with a focus on encouraging the take-up and adoption of OGC standards in Europe. Since 2006, he is Business Development Manager at Esri with the specific remit of strengthening the relationship with the European Commission and other European Community agencies and bodies.

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The European Environment Agency (EEA), Esri and Microsoft announced the launch of the Eye on Earth Network at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and subsequently at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi. It is the result of a public-private partnership joining expertise from leading industry and public organizations. Eye on Earth is a cloud computing-based, global public information service for sharing and discovering data and information on the environment from diverse sources. It promotes the principles of public data access and citizen science allowing to manipulate this data for collective usage. It provides citizens with capabilities to report their own opinion and observations on the environment. This can be done by using web and smart phone applications, so no in-depth technical expertise is required. Consequently, dispersed environmental knowledge can be rapidly aggregated and distributed. It also can be kept up to date more efficiently and effectively. Initial contributors to the Eye on Earth Network include (in alphabetical order) the Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre (ADSIC), the Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office (AGCHO), the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), the EEA, Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), the Kuwait Environment Protection Agency (KEPA/eMISK), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). The Eye on Earth functionality includes an integrated “Watches” application, which combines WaterWatch, AirWatch and NoiseWatch. These bring together water quality information from more than 22,000 bathing sites, air quality data from around 2,000 monitoring stations as well as previous noise pollution levels in Europe’s largest cities. In 2012, NatureWatch will be launched which focuses on invasive alien species, one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss in Europe. The Eye on Earth Network is also contributing to and supporting the Global Network of Networks, one of the collaborative special initiatives announced at the Eye on Earth Summit.

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With over 15 years of experience within Leica Geosystems, ERDAS and now Intergraph, Stojic has extensive product development and management experience, coupled with a broad understanding of the rapidly expanding geospatial markets. Stojic has held several Product Management positions within the company. In 2004, Stojic became the Director of Enterprise and Visualization Solutions, spearheading the market strategy and vision for Leica Geosystems' growing enterprise and visualization portfolio. Now a Vice President, Stojic provides direction in product management and marketing strategies for Intergraph SG&I’s geospatial business unit. Stojic holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Canada and a Master of Science from University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

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Portray Your Geography to the World
Geospatial organizations need to use and distribute volumes of geospatial data, but disparate legacy information systems may hinder data-sharing. When departments use different geospatial software and data formats, data silos result, forming obstacles to effective collaboration within the enterprise. Additional problems arise when trying to share data with outside organizations. Intergraph’s Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) solution removes the obstacles associated with distributing and using copied data. Adherence to industry standards, including INSPIRE, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO), not only breaks down barriers, but also allows organizations to comply with government mandates. With GeoMedia SDI Portal and its powerful browser application, you can easily visualize and share accurate geospatial data to collaborate internally, and with government agencies, commercial businesses, and the public. Attend this session to learn how this solution can benefit your organization.

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Ed Parsons is the Geospatial Technologist of Google, with responsibility for evangelising Google’s mission to organise the world’s information using geography, and tools including Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Maps for Mobile. In his role he also maintains links with Universities, Research and Standards Organisations which are involved in the development of Geospatial Technology. Ed is based in Google’s London office. Ed was the first Chief Technology Officer in the 200-year-old history of Ordnance Survey, and was instrumental in moving the focus of the organisation from mapping to Geographical Information. Ed came to the Ordnance Survey from Autodesk, where he was EMEA Applications Manager for the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Division. He earned a Masters degree in Applied Remote Sensing from Cranfield Institute of Technology and holds a Honorary Doctorate in Science from Kingston University, London. Ed is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is the author of numerous articles, professional papers and presentations to International Conferences and he developed one of first weblogs in the Geospatial Industry.

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Sebastian Mas-Mayoral is Director of the Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (National Centre for Geographic Information) of the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (National Geographic Institute) of Spain. One of the National Centre for Geographic Information´s commitments is official GI data distribution, fostering of public sector GI added value use and public private partnership in GI production and use. Since 1976 he has been working to set up GIS systems in Spain. As a member of the National Geographic High Council (NGHC) of Spain he is the Chairman of Management Board of the National SDI of Spain. He is also the Chairman of the NGHC´s Commission and Working Group in charge to set up the National SDI of Spain (www.idee.es). He is also Chairman of the Spanish Standardisation Association´s Technical Committee 148 for GI Standardisation.

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Public Private Partnership based on the NSDI of Spain: Regulation and examples from the National Geographic Institute
In Spain public private partnership to get added value on data and services provided by public sector is regulated by Law 37/2007, of November 16th, on Public Sector Information reusing that transposes the European Directive 2003/98/CE, of November 2003, from the European Parliament and Council. Partnership is established by contracts or agreements among public sector agencies and private sector companies or organizations that promote the initiative. There are also examples on consortia settled down to take ahead jointly R+D initiatives. On the specific case of geographic information, Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports, according the Law 37/2007, has approved Order FOM/956/2008, of March 31st, setting up policy for public diffusion of geographic information produces by the National Geographic Institute. This policy sets up that non commercial use of the digital geographic data and geographic information services provided by National Geographic Institute through Internet will be licensed free of charge, whenever it is mentioned the origin and property of the data. This policy is also used for the most of the regional and local mapping agencies in Spain. This paper provides some information on this geographic information access and downloading web services using by non commercial users. Commercial use of digital geographic information with direct, indirect or differed economic profits is also possible and it is regulated by agreement between the National Centre for Geographic Information and the company providing added value according a commercial activity. Commercial use license is specific for every application, but it is according a general model. The economic agreements is not based on data prices, it is based on sharing profits from revenues. This paper provides some information on this commercial uses.It is also important for the public private partnership the Law 14/2010, of July 5th, about the infrastructures and the services of geographic information in Spain. The Law has set up geographic information services organization and general regulations and standards to set up spatial data infrastructures in Spain. This Law is also transposing Directive 2007/2/EC (Inspire). National Geographic Institute is also the Technical Secretariat of the National Geographic High Council and as such it is the National INSPIRE Contact Point and has the responsibility to develop and operate the NSDI Geoportal (www.idee.es). This paper provides some information on practical use of the NSDI standard web services available through the Geoportal www.idee.es. This paper provides several examples on public private partnership to provide added value SDI services from public SDI services.

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Rob van de Velde is currently director of Geonovum, the Dutch National SDI Executive Committee. Geonovum’s mission is to realize better access to geo-information in the public sector and full integration of its services to public and industry. In his current role as director he is engaged in stimulating location awareness and organizing strategic cooperation amongst leaders in national and local government, academia and industry. He has a part-time position as lecturer in Spatial Informatics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Economics and is member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium. Rob van de Velde studied human geography at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. He has worked as GIS-programme manager at the National Physical Planning Agency and the National Institute of Public Health and Environment. He has lead the GIS Competence Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. Presently he is the director of GEONOVUM, the Netherlands SDI executive committee.

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Playground and challenges for Public Private Partnerships in the Netherlands
The Dutch government has the bold ambition to emerge stronger from the present financial crisis and wants to invest in an innovative and resilient economy. Proper provision and re-use of geospatial information is essential in this respect. The national eGovernment strategy and the specific geospatial information strategy, GIDEON, have resulted in major progress and tangible results in access, harmonisation and usebility of public funded geospatial dataregisters. The private geospatial sector has a long history in innovation and value-adding with geospatial information. With the growing maturity of the public funded national spatial data infrastructure, the growing impact of open data policies and the ongoing focus on data-harmonization and data-quality (national policy of key registers and INSPIRE directive), the floor is open for new strategic and operational partnerships between the government and the private sector. In our presentation we will present a general overview of the geospatial landscape and the potential benefits of increased public-private collaboration.

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Camille van der Harten (1957) graduated from the Wageningen University in Tropical Agriculture, Economics and Tropical Soil Science, including fieldwork and research in Kenya. Between 1986 and 2000 he worked for the United Nations and the Dutch Government in Pakistan (NFDC), Italy (FAO Headquarters) and Zimbabwe (SADC Regional Remote Sensing Unit). In Zimbabwe he was responsible for the implementation of GIS and remote sensingsystems in 14 SADC Countries in support of Food Security. He has been involved in numerous environmental programmes and research projects. Since 2000 he has been holding several management and commercial positions with Adogis and Tensing in the Netherlands. From 2009 onwards he continued as independent consultant and has been partner from Nexpri until 2011. At present his main assignments are Director from GeoBusiness Nederland and Coordinator ICT Innovation Platform Geo-information (IIPGeo).

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Playground and challenges for Public Private Partnerships in the Netherlands
The Dutch government has the bold ambition to emerge stronger from the present financial crisis and wants to invest in an innovative and resilient economy. Proper provision and re-use of geospatial information is essential in this respect. The national eGovernment strategy and the specific geospatial information strategy, GIDEON, have resulted in major progress and tangible results in access, harmonisation and usebility of public funded geospatial dataregisters. The private geospatial sector has a long history in innovation and value-adding with geospatial information. With the growing maturity of the public funded national spatial data infrastructure, the growing impact of open data policies and the ongoing focus on data-harmonization and data-quality (national policy of key registers and INSPIRE directive), the floor is open for new strategic and operational partnerships between the government and the private sector. In our presentation we will present a general overview of the geospatial landscape and the potential benefits of increased public-private collaboration

Steven Ramage is Executive Director, Marketing and Communications at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The OGC is the industry standards body for all things geospatial. Steven is responsible for the management of a broad range of marketing, communications and education program activities worldwide. He encourages participation in OGC programs from the OGC's international network - in excess of 430 member organisations and alliance partners. He also works closely with the OGC Global Advisory Council and the OGC Board of Directors. Steven has a degree in Information Management and an international postgraduate diploma in European Marketing. He speaks several languages including French, German and Norwegian.

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PPP and international open standards
The goal of the Exchange Forum is to bring together industry leaders from across the world and assess key challenges and opportunities for Public Private Partnerships (PPP). The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) could be described as an organization that has been facilitating this activity for many years. The very nature of the OGC working groups is based on consensus and collaboration, two key elements of PPP. During his presentation Steven will explain some of the activities involving the OGC, including some emerging activities specifically relating to organizations involved in PPP, such as the European Commission Future Internet Public-Private Partnership Programme (FI-PPP) and the Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) of the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Bruce is Chief Information Officer, Department of Sustainability and Environment, State Government of Victoria, Australia. As part of this role he is responsible for Victoria’s whole-of-Government spatial information strategy and policies, and for the management of Victoria’s spatial information infrastructure. He is a member of ANZLIC, the Australia New Zealand Land Information Council, and a director of PSMA Australia, Australia’s national spatial data provider.

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Partnering for SDI implementation: Victoria, Australia
Victoria has a long record of partnering for SDI implementation, at micro and macro levels. Over the last decade a series of partnerships have delivered parts of the picture – spatial data maintenance, mapping production, state-wide commercial real-time high precision positioning services. The governance model has also been a partnership, with the multi-sectoral Victorian Spatial Council delivering a ‘whole-of-Victoria’ spatial strategy covering the public, private and academic sectors, rather than the Victorian Government producing a separate public sector strategy. The Victorian Government works closely with the private sector in developing value-add opportunities based on improving access to public sector information, and is a core participant in the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information , Australia’s principal spatial research body.This simple partnering model is now well established and supported by all sectors, with well defined, complementary roles for each sector, and an effective governance model in place through the Victorian Spatial Council. The next iteration of this model is a large step change – the development of a regional spatial marketplace for Australia and New Zealand, under the auspices of ANZLIC, in conjunction with PSMA Australia, SIBA and CRCSI. Victoria is the lead jurisdiction for development of the Australia New Zealand Spatial Marketplace Demonstrator, with the support and commitment of ANZLIC and it constituent jurisdictions – the Governments of New Zealand and Australia, and the eight Australian State and Territory Governments. The demonstrator is intended to deliver a full range of SDI capabilities to proof-of-concept level, and allow its constituents in the public, private and academic sectors to make an informed collective decision on implementation of a regional spatial marketplace through a partnership approach. The presentation reviews the history of partnering for SDI in Victoria, before focussing on the Australia New Zealand Spatial Marketplace proposal, and testing the potential for broadening the partnership.

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Fuziah Abu Hanifah is currently the Director of Malaysian Centre for Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MaCGDI), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE), Malaysia. Her role is managing the implementation of Malaysian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MyGDI) where, among significant tasks includes facilitating geospatial information sharing activities among all agencies at all levels.

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While NSDI has been established in Malaysia, the full potential can further be realized. To a large degree many users are hopeful that they can get access to the system and start finding and using data. Some users expect NSDI to provide them readily available data without the necessary step of requesting the data from the data providers as well as the step for them to process and prepare the data for their use. Some further argued that the usability of the system can be improved if appropriate combination between data sharing and focused application is found in the services. To address the current challenges and to enhance the effectiveness of the NSDI in Malaysia, there is possibility of establishing a collaborative business venture between the government and private entities. In this respect, partnership between government entity and business enterprise is important to realize the full potential of NSDI with user-oriented services as the focus. Close links between both sectors will result in the more optimal utilization of geospatial information, and create the synergy to spur the NSDI growth. Such strategies of collaborative partnership will be unique not only because of the type of relationship binding the private sector to the public sector, but also in how they ensure the successful implementation of the NSDI initiative.

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Dr. Dasgupta is the Managing Editor of Geospatial World magazine. He is a Distinguished Professor of the Academy of Geoinformatics at the Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space Applications and Geoinformatics, Gandhinagarand is also the Professional Director of Scanpoint Geomatics Ltd. He has made significant and original contributions in convergence of information and communications technologies in the area of geospatial systems and applications, notably on Spatial Data Infrastructure. He is a recipient of the Geospatial Lifetime Achievement Award in Geospatial Technologies for 2009, the National Geospatial Award for Excellence for 2005 from the Indian Society of Remote Sensing and the Astronautical Society of India Award for Space Science and Applications for the year 2000. Prof Dasgupta is a M.E. in Electrical Communications Engineering and has worked in the Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, from November 1970 to March 2005. He began his career in the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE). Later he was involved in the management of applications programmes for several remote sensing satellites including Bhaskara and IRS as well as development of Image and Information Processing systems. He was responsible for research and development in applications using the convergence of communications and information technologies. He has pioneered the introduction of Geomatics in ISRO and conducted advanced research and development in the convergence of Geomatics, Information Technology and Communications Technology in space applications. His areas of research interest include Spatial Data Infrastructure, Standards and Interoperability, Information Systems, GIS, Image Processing, Technology Transfer and Operationalisation of Space Applications. He is actively associated with many professional societies and has been a member on several committees dealing with geospatial information systems in particular and information technology in general. After superannuation in 2005 he has been involved in educational activities related to geospatial technologies such as designing courses, guiding students, geospatial research and conducting training courses in India and abroad.

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SDI efforts around the world raised hopes for a geospatially enabled world. In reality SDI has not lived up to its promise. Barring a few examples, by and large SDI efforts have not resulted in the kind of path breaking applications that was expected. In most cases SDI is turning out to be an effort of government agencies, by government agencies and for government agencies. While an infrastructure has to necessarily be developed and managed by the government it cannot be only for the government and by the government exclusively. The very underpinnings of SDI are partnerships between government, industry, academia and citizens. Most applications of SDI are citizen-centric but the citizen is treated as a passive beneficiary. In today’s interconnected and spatially enabled world this approach is anachronistic. The average citizen is well equipped in terms of communications and information processing through web enabled mobile services. The citizen therefore can be an interactive participant in terms of being able to get information of their interest and also in terms of being able to provide information. SDI has to take into account this growing importance of neo-geographers and volunteered geographical information. The involvement of industry in SDI is another area which suffers from lack of definition. All discussions finally get reduced to a vendor or supplier role. Most government agencies lack adequate human resources and are therefore unable to implement the SDI in the manner intended. It is seen that industry is very successful in providing back-office services to government agencies, particularly in IT enabled services. Industry can therefore play a major role in the realisation of SDI. It could be through a Build-Own-Operate model which can later be transformed to a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer model as the staffs of government agencies acquire the necessary skills. In sum, SDI needs to look beyond standards, policies and capacity building and address issues of implementation and effective use.

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Dr. Derek Clarke holds the position of head of the national mapping organization of South Africa. He is registered as a Professional Land Surveyor and a Professional Geoinformatics Practitioner. He holds a bachelor degree in surveying, a diploma in datametrics and a masters degree in executive public management. He did his PhD, on researching the implications of map literacy in development planning. He has been engaged with promoting geo-spatial information utilization for over 20 years and played a leading role in getting GIS going in South Africa.

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A view on policy for national spatial data infrastructure
The national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) is a significant mechanism for managing geo-spatial information within a country. It impacts on role-players in both the public and private sectors and the ultimate beneficiary, the citizens of the country. The NSDI must serve the national programmes of Government. We also know that geo-spatial information is used not only at the national level but also at the regional and global levels. The NSDI therefore must also take into account these relationships. The significance of the NSDI requires it to be guided by and managed within a policy framework. For a policy to be effective it is necessary for the policy to be formulated through a particular process, ensuring commitment to and buy-in from all the key role-players. The implementation of the policy can be done in different ways, depending upon the particular circumstances of the environment in which the policy will operate. A policy may require compliance by specified groups and so it is necessary to have compliance monitoring and reporting. A policy is put in place to address a specified problem or need and so the impact of the policy on the problem area should be monitored. This could result in adjustments to the policy being made. The policy environment can be contentious terrain and will need support at the appropriate levels, including the highest political level. For NSDI this is probably the most challenging to achieve. The reasons for this can be various and will differ from country to country, but there are some common constraints. Policies which deal with more technical issues are probably easier to achieve. Although policy making for NSDI in South Africa is still in its infancy, experiences to-date are shared. These include the process of policy making.

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Olaf Østensen is director of strategic and technological development at the Norwegian Mapping Authority. He has a Master of Science degree in mathematics (algebraic geometry) and computer science from University of Oslo. After working as a researcher in computer science, he joined the Ministry of Environment and later the Norwegian Mapping Authority. His work within NMA has been strategic development and application of new technologies. He was the initiator of the national standardization programme for digital geographic information in Norway. Since 1992 he has been heavily involved in international standardization, first in CEN/TC 287. In 1994 he became the first chairman of ISO/TC 211, a position he still holds. He has been heavily involved in the development of INSPIRE, e.g. as member of the INSPIRE Drafting Team on Network services, and have more than 25 years experience in international activities within GIS. Further, he serves as the chairman of the Norwegian government council for ICT standardization (eGovernment).

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The national geospatial information infrastructure in Norway evolved from the standardization activities, first by the development of data content standards, data modeling methodologies, and data exchange formats. In the late 1990s, we saw the emerging of a service orientated geospatial data infrastructure by many government agencies deploying web services for viewing and downloading geospatial information over the internet. This infrastructure was founded on ISO and OGC standards. There was a requirement to organize the infrastructure more thoroughly, and from around 2005 a joint partnership based upon voluntary membership was launched. Today, every government, regional and local authority with an interest, as provider or user, of geospatial information participate in this partnership. More than 600 public sector institutions participate thus closely in the joint venture. Private sector and industry have been involved from the start, initially by pushing for the standards development, later by providing the tools underpinning the infrastructure. Today, we see more and more that the industry utilizes the infrastructure to provide innovative new solutions to the market. Industry and government is working closely to develop tools for integrating geospatial information into other sectors, e.g. geo-enabling public authorities through simple interfaces so that geospatial information can be utilized in the public decision workflows. This is an example of the close cooperation between the geospatial sector and eGovernment. The latest activity is a joint development between the government and all the main GI solution providers of a geosynchronization service to support the requirements from the INSPIRE directive, and allowing industry to build solutions on top of authoritative and continuously updated information. There are still challenges to overcome, especially with regards to licensing schemes and pricing models. A further development of harmonization in these areas, preferably international harmonization, will stimulate even more and better use of the geospatial infrastructure. The activities in Europe on revision of the PSI directive may be a step in this direction. Norway has a broad interest in international affairs and development, and we thus also want to follow and contribute to the UN initiative on global geospatial information management. As more and more of the challenges we face have a global character, e.g. the climate change, such development is not only necessary, but also urgent.

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Jan Cees Venema is head of the Netherlands Coordination Office (NCO) for the United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI). Jan Cees’ background is in Physical Geography, Informatics, Space Technology and Communications. Most of his professional career he spent at NLR in the Netherlands, where he was responsible for the coordination of NLR’s space programmes and communications strategy. He has been Netherlands space delegate in a NATO Advisory Group and member of the Scientific Committee of ISPRS. His main interest is in making available unique and high-quality geographic information, knowledge and capabilities from Netherlands parties to the international UNSDI community.

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The United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) can be seen as a global SDI. By developing, distributing and implementing two UNSDI building blocks, consisting of the Geospatial Data Warehouse and the corresponding Visualization Facility, a global infrastructure comes into place, allowing for making a vast amount of geo-information discoverable, available and accessible. From peacekeeping to humanitarian relief, from climate change to disaster reduction, response and recovery, from environmental protection to poverty reduction, food security, water resources management and sustainable economic development, the agencies of the UN produce complementary data and information that needs to be shared between them and their Member States. The UNSDI partners within the UN system are on the verge of putting 26 TB, or 300.000 layers, of geo-information on-line as soon as the UNSDI Geospatial Data Warehouse and the Visualization Facility are in place. This shared data and information will reduce costs, raise operational efficiencies and improve the quality of services for everyone. But, more importantly, in order to monitor or manage dynamic environmental and development processes, recurrent or real-time geo-information products will have to be made and put on-line, often within severe time constraints. At this point services by the private sector come into play. In order to keep UNSDI manageable, one interface per Member State is foreseen, dubbed ‘National Coordination Offices’ or NCOs in short. These NCOs will act as the interface between national stakeholders and UNSDI. The role of NCOs in Public-Private Partnerships in SDIs and possible scenarios for economies of scale of SDI will be illustrated by a number of examples, as experienced in The Netherlands. In SDIs a clear distinction is made between Infrastructure and Content elements, related to the respective roles of Government and Private sector, where content not only relates to geo-information, but also to the necessary accompanying capacity building or institutional strengthening activities.

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Dr. Khalid A. Rahman Al-Haidan - Director of GIS Directorate of the Central Informatics Organization (CIO), Kingdom of Bahrain, in additions to other prestigious official mandates, is the designated Member and General Secretary of National GIS Steering Committee (NGISSC) of the Kingdom and, in his official capacity has initiated the implementation of National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) initiatives. Dr. Al-Haidan – holding a Doctorate Degree in National Spatial Data Infrastructures is credited with pioneering and taking progressive steps towards the Government’s vision of establishing a robust geospatial infrastructure towards sustainable development of public and private sectors by the culmination of strategically oriented plans; innovative GeoInt applications devoted to geospatially fortifying government organizations. Throughout his tenure Dr. Al-Haidan has worked with a portfolio of strategy, innovation, and research projects that facilitate the delivery mechanism of effective geospatial solutions to bolster efforts towards the Kingdoms development.

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The GIS Directorate of the Central Informatics Organization - CIO, Kingdom of Bahrain, in concordance of a Government Decree and directives of National GIS Steering Committee (NGISSC) officially implemented National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) for the Kingdom of Bahrain, in February 2005. Bahrain Spatial Data Infrastructure (BSDI) Portal is a manifestation of NSDI meant to fulfill the mandates of NGISSC and thereby NSDI. Bahrain Spatial Data Infrastructure (BSDI) Portal-that operates on a GIS database of geospatial data layers such as Street Centerlines, Addresses, Electricity & Water Transmission and Distribution, Telecommunications Infrastructure, Gas & Oil Pipelines, Sewerage & Drainage, and others, serves Government Organizations, Private Sectors and Academic Institutions of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Bahrain Spatial Data Infrastructure (BSDI) build with an infrastructure conforming to the stipulations of ISO, OGC, Inc. functions as a powerful tool for economic and social development, and environmental management, enabling the full potential of GIS technology. BSDI facilitates and co-coordinates the exchange and sharing of spatial data among the stakeholders in Government, Business Sectors and with Citizens (G2G; G2B and G2C), resulting in substantial reduction in the cost of development and arresting duplication of data. One of the objects of this project is to emphasize the concept of a single, consistent and accessible, government funded infrastructure as a basis for developing competitive and value adding services towards sustainable development. This endeavor reflects and promotes recommendation of the use of the corporate database concept to integrate GIS data for all units of local government participating in a cooperative Corporate GIS program, under the auspices of NSDI. As a future endeavor BSDI aims towards enabling the Kingdom of Bahrain to participate constructively in regional and global initiatives of spatial data infrastructures and thereby, assist countries in the region, in developing their economies.

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President of the Republic of Indonesia has signed the Law Nr. 04 year 2011 on the regulation and assurance for the implementation of availability and access to geospatial information in Indonesia. The Regulation of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Nr. 85 year 2007 has implemented for the establishment of the Network of National geoSpatial Data. In order to enforce the Law and Regulation, the Government of Indonesia has developed Indonesia-geoSpatial Data Infrastructure (Ina-SDI), which consists of: policies, institutions arrangement, technologies, standards, and human resources. The Ina-SDI is planned to become a system that continues to grow and obtain self-improvement. Main goals of the Ina-SDI is to enforce a single geospatial reference which required for the national programme, to integrate sectors and regions in acceleration and extensification of national development through a common reference map, to ensure and share integrated geospatial data and information nationally without violating the property rights, to facilitate people, industry, or institution in changing preference from geospatial data keeping to geospatial information production and community, to simplify cooperation, coordination, collaboration, and synchronization of national resources and programmes, to improve public services and also enhance the competitiveness of national economy. This effort has already been echoed by the President with his “one map” policy. In order to realize this, on October 17th, 2011, Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) was launched an initial national program which named “Indonesia-Geospatial Portal (Ina-GeoPortal)” to facilitate custodians in sharing their data and at the same time reaching common people to create maps for their business and various aspects of life society with just a few clicks on personal computers, laptops, or even their smart-pads and smart-phones. Ina-GeoPortal able to reduce duplication of effort among agencies, improve quality and reduce costs related to geospatial data and information, to make geospatial data more accessible to the public, to increase the benefits of using available geospatial data. Therefore, this policy paper presents and describes possible developments to the successful implementation of the Ina-SDI and Ina-GeoPortal under the Law Nr. 04 year 2011 and the Regulation of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Nr. 85 year 2007.