Dr. HaeKyong Kang
Associate Research Fellow, Geospatial Information Research Division
Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements
South Korea

Biography
Dr. HaeKyong Kang is a researcher on GI policy. She majored Geospatial Database at Pusan National University in South Korea. She has served as a ISO19151 project leader in ISO/TC211 and a member of OGC. Her research interest focuses on GI/SDI policy, geospatial master-plan, GI policy assessment and geospatial standards. She has given lectures on ‘Geospatial Standards‘ to government officials at Training Institute for Land Infrastructure and Transport in Korea from 2009, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements since 2012. She provided a consulting on geospatial information policy to Chilean government in 2012 by the request of Chilean and Korean governments. Dr. HaeKyong Kang is a researcher on GI policy. She majored Geospatial Database at Pusan National University in South Korea. She has served as a ISO19151 project leader in ISO/TC211 and a member of OGC. Her research interest focuses on GI/SDI policy, geospatial master-plan, GI policy assessment and geospatial standards. She has given lectures on ‘Geospatial Standards‘ to government officials at Training Institute for Land Infrastructure and Transport in Korea from 2009, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements since 2012. She provided a consulting on geospatial information policy to Chilean government in 2012 by the request of Chilean and Korean governments.

Abstract
The Importance of Building Geospatial Standards Capacity from the Korean Experience

Geospatial capacity can consist of several sub-capacities such as a capacity of building/providing geospatial infrastructure and a capacity of the utilization of the geospatial infrastructure. Geospatial standard capacity can be regarded as one of the sub-capacities. The sub-capacities which are not independent exclusively but interactive each other have relations creating a synergy effect. Korean government has invested hundreds of billions KRW to build national geospatial data infrastructure and capacity of a society since 1995. According to the its 2014 plan, it is going to invest 3000 billion KRW into geospatial fields in geospatial utilization (238 billion KRW), infrastructure (222 billion KRW), and building geospatial data (644 billion KRW). It also has a plan to build a capacity of 2000 geospatial experts by 2018. However the efforts applying geospatial standards to the projects are ignored relatively. This research propose an approach to measure the capacity of Korean geospatial society in terms of geospatial standards. First, it will be described that the factors and their relations consisting of (or influencing on) geospatial capacity as a framework. Capacity of geospatial standard will be included in the factors. Based on the framework, geospatial standards capacity of Korea will be analyzed. Why building geospatial standards capacity is important will be mentioned. It will be described proposals to advance the geospatial standards capacity at a conclusion. Many countries developing geospatial policy recognize geospatial standards as the most important element of a geospatial policy. However, it seems a common to ignore geospatial standards when we decide the priority among components of geospatial policy. The survey by Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements in 2012 was shown that 7 countries proceeding with geospatial policy were the same with Korean status. Therefore, not only the 7 countries but also other countries and international geospatial standard organizations can get ideas from the experience of Korea to build geospatial standards capacity for their successful geospatial policy.