Francisco J Lopez-Pellicer
Lecturer
Group of Advanced Information Systems
Universidad Zaragoza
Spain

Biography
Computer scientist specialised in standard discovery and access to Geospatial Information. Francisco is member of the IAAA Laboratory, Universidad Zaragoza, where he has participated in several projects related to Open Data, Linked Data, Web Services, and INSPIRE compliance.

Abstract
Facilitating e-Governmenent Services in cross border regions with SDIs

There has been a huge increment in the number of e-government services offered to the citizens and companies. However, environment-related permits are among the least developed kind of e-government services in Europe. Cross border regions face additional challenges because e-government services may require data and services from different governments. This often implies problems of data compatibility and mismatches between different technological solutions.

Environmental e-government services require the use of geographic information. SDIs provide an optimized framework for supporting environmental government tasks. Such support is becoming a legal obligation for some countries and institutions. In cross border regions, cross border SDIs may contribute to the development of cross border e-government services by providing a compatibility layer.

This oral presentation describes a real application in the area of the environment-related permits based in a cross border SDI: the process of applying for a water abstraction authorization. SDI services are used for the capture, management, and assessment of geographical information in a full transactional e-government service. These services were developed during the Eurostat-funded SDIGER pilot (ref 2004 742 00004). SDIGER involved an inter-administration and cross border scenario that involved two countries (France and Spain) and two river basin districts located each on one side of the border (the Adour-Garonne, basin district and the Ebro river basin district) managed by different authorities (Agence de l?Eau Adour-Garonne, and Confederaci?nHidrogr?fica del Ebro).