Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure leverages many new opportunities enabled by the 4th Industrial Revolution. It accelerates automation and knowledge-on-demand. It is as relevant for all nation. It supports the United Nations Vision 2030 agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. Integrated Geospatial Information Framework is the framework of choice to implement the Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure.

Objectives:

• To understand the GKI concept and key elements
• How 4th Industrial Revolution technologies can improve geospatial in the virtual world?

Key Topics:

• What is Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI): the concept
• Key elements
• Relevance of Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure
• GKI complimenting other initiatives
• Fundamental data themes, geospatial technologies, integration, value-applications to give knowledge

John Kedar

Geospatial World

Trainer

John Kedar

Strategic Advisor-Geospatial Infrastructure, Geospatial World

Presentation
Introduction to Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure

Objectives:

• To understand the value proposition and relevance of GKI in today’s context

Key Topics:

• Value proposition and relevance of GKI in today’s context
• How GKI will benefit National Mapping Agencies
• Changing role and transformation required

John Kedar

Geospatial World

John Kedar

Strategic Advisor-Geospatial Infrastructure, Geospatial World

Presentation
Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure: benefits and transformation - a national mapping agency perspective

The Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI) is a new concept to help harness the maximum value of geospatial knowledge, but with the UN GGIM Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF) an essential building block and enabler to success. The IGIF is nearing the end of its initial development, with the implementation guide. Whilst some nations are using the IGIF, some are not, and others are not aware how to use it.

Objectives:

• To understand the IGIF and its relationship with GKI.
• To understand how to use the IGIF in a national context.

Key Topics:

• What is the need for IGIF?
• The key components and pathways of the IGIF
• Overview of how the IGIF is being used globally, including practical IGIF national use/implementation, and the partners working on its delivery
• Relationship between GKI and IGIF

Greg Scott

UN-GGIM

Trainer

Greg Scott

Inter-regional Advisor, UN-GGIM

Tim Trainor

International Cartographic Association

Tim Trainor

President, International Cartographic Association

Presentation
Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF) and Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI)

Rosamond C. Bing

Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources

Case Study

Rosamond C. Bing

Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Tonga

The need for standards is well understood, and to an extent so is the source of standards through IHO, ISO, OGC and others. But how a nation or agency should select and implement standards in an integrated fashion is often not understood. Further, within the geospatial knowledge infrastructure we seek to deliver knowledge services as well as data services.

Objectives:

• To understand the Tier approach to standards, the groups of standards and the key standards for delivering data and services
• To understand the key standards in delivering knowledge from geospatial data
• To understand how to select and implement geospatial standards in a national context

Key Topics:

• Key types of geospatial standards
• Geospatial standards for a geospatial knowledge infrastructure
• How to use select and implement standards, both from an agency and from a national perspective

PAUL JANSSEN

Geonovum

Deep Dive

PAUL JANSSEN

Geonovum

Presentation
Geo Standards Geonovum

Rolando Ocampo Alcantar

ECLAC

Deep Dive

Rolando Ocampo Alcantar

Chair, ECLAC

Presentation
CEPALSTAT New interface

GNSS has opened up Geospatial Knowledge across society and demand for increased precision continues to rise and new uses found, enabling new knowledge services. However, effective geodetic networks, CORS networks and indoor navigation technologies are not uniformly available, or their use can be improved.

Objectives:

• To understand the elements of national positioning infrastructures.
• To understand the full range of uses and benefits derived from the infrastructure.
• To understand how to plan, deliver and improve a national positioning infrastructure, including through partnership.
• For trainees to consider the state of positioning infrastructure in the nation.

Key Topics:

• 4IR creating new opportunity and future of Positioning Infrastructure
• Planning and rolling out of modern positioning infrastructure
• Getting more value from positioning infrastructures through partnerships

Albert H. Anoubon Momo

Trimble

Trainer

Albert H. Anoubon Momo

Vice President & Executive Director-Emerging Market and Funded Projects, Trimble, USA

Christopher Daub

Trimble

Trainer

Christopher Daub

World Wide Support Manager, Trimble

Presentation
Positioning Infrastructure - Correction services, automated movement detection, and financing

Anamika Das

Geospatial World

Case Study

Anamika Das

Vice President-Partnerships, Geospatial World

Presentation
Positioning Infrastructure: A Case Study of India

Government Policy often develops in isolation, with sector policies and cross-cutting policies such as data often disjointed, eg transport policies may consider specific data issues in isolation or national data, geospatial and EO policies may be incoherent. There are also often major policy geospatial data policy gaps as technology changes the geospatial environment. Need is to encourage and build an integrated policy framework that incorporates geospatial knowledge needs.

Objectives:

• Understand how sectoral policies are impacting geospatial agencies and national geospatial frameworks and the need to engage with policy makers.
• Understand the links between different policies including automation, AI, EO, geospatial and data policies
• Understand the key elements of geospatial policy
• Understand licensing policy options

Key Topics:

• Policy challenge facing nations
• Sectoral policies impacting geospatial domain
• Integrated approach to all national geospatial policies
• Development and Impact of Data Privacy policy
• Policy on Licensing of geospatial data; options and issues

Derek Clarke

World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC)

Trainer

Derek Clarke

Advisor, World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC)

Presentation
Integrated Geospatial Policy Framework

Alexander Kotsev

European Commission, Joint Research Centre

Deep dive

Alexander Kotsev

Scientific/ Technical Project Officer, European Commission, Joint Research Centre

Presentation
Modernising SDIs within the context of the European strategy for data

Many national mapping agencies attending the course will be losing relevance in the digital age, transformation is the only choice although that could take a number of forms, including partnership. Governance, technologies, and people all have to be considered, and single agency transformation needs to take place amidst a potential need to change external influences on the organisation. As government agencies, some of the levers available to industry transformation are not available for government agencies.

Objectives:

• Overview of why organisational transformation is challenging but necessary.
• Understand how to effectively plan and implement successful transformation initiatives.
• Understand the role of leadership.

Key Topics:

• Why transform and the inherent risks and challenges
• Techniques to effectively plan and implement successful transformation initiatives.
• Leadership of transformation

Murray Cowan

AARC Projects

Trainer

Murray Cowan

Digital Transformation Consultant, AARC Projects

Presentation
Managing Transformation

Lt. Gen. Girish Kumar

Government of Haryana

Deep dive

Lt. Gen. Girish Kumar

Former Surveyor General of India

Presentation
Transformation of Survey of India for the Development of the Country

We live in a rapidly changing World, in all respects. New partnerships, technologies and approaches can enable all nations to harness the value of geospatial knowledge in new ways, potentially bypassing old ways. The “future” we talked about 5 years ago is here today. But it is difficult to assess what trends most impact geospatial knowledge infrastructures, and these changes regularly.

Objectives:

• Understand better some of the key trends impacting geospatial agencies.
• Understand how these might offer benefit across all nations.

Key Topics:

• Beyond Geospatial; technology trend and what that means for national geospatial agencies
• Digital twins; Demonstrating how national geospatial agency fundamental data is core to this
• AI and ML –how they give opportunities for rapid feature collection and data maintenance
• Lidar/UAS for 3D world

Dean Angelides

Esri

Trainer

Dean Angelides

Corporate Director - International, Esri

Presentation
Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure - Integrating New Technologies with National Priorities

Andries Botha

Woolpert

Trainer

Andries Botha

Remote Sensing Manager, Woolpert

Presentation
UAS and Lidar for Geospatial Mapping: The state of technology and practice

Mapping/Geospatial agencies have traditionally worked in house or through specific project contracts to deliver mapping, data and data services. Increasingly geospatial data and its derived geospatial knowledge are core to many aspects of digital society, and single agencies cannot deliver efficiently or effectively on their own. Indeed, they may not survive on their own and need to find new business models and partnerships, including those that allow transformation in outputs in resource constrained environments.

Objectives:

• Understand a range of current business models being employed by mapping and geospatial agencies and their applicability to individual nations.
• Understand a continuum of public-private partnership models applicable to this sector and the potential benefits and risks of these models.
• Awareness of opportunities for co-creation of geospatial data and knowledge services.

Key Topics:

• Definitions with a proposed continuum of PPP models that can be populated with Global examples
• Context (SWOT) with respect to the models or examples
• Scope and Opportunities to co-create within existing models and emerging opportunities based on what the community knows

Dr. Simon Musaus, D.B.A.

Hexagon

Trainer

Dr. Simon Musaus, D.B.A.

VP Business Development, Geospatial Content Solutions (GCS), Hexagon

Presentation
Partnerships and Business Models

Ruban Jacob

Geospatial World

Case Study

Ruban Jacob

Project Manager-Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure, Geospatial World

Presentation
Partnerships and Business Models - A case study on Alberta Data Partnerships

Delivering geospatial knowledge infrastructure requires national geospatial strategy and/or a geospatial element of a broader national strategy. This sets the national geospatial agenda and will grow from direct use of the IGIF or consideration of elements of the IGIF, appropriate to national needs. The rapid transformation of the sector and of national needs is such that strategies continually need refreshing.

Objectives:

• To understand the elements of a national geospatial strategy.
• To understand a process for developing a national geospatial strategy.
• To understand the UN IGIF Action Plan and how it relates to national strategy.
• To consider the existence and relevance of individual trainee national strategies.

Key Topics:

• Inter-relationship between policy, strategy and IGIF Action Plan
• The steps in creating strategy:
• Institutional Arrangements for Strategy Development
• Current State
• Stakeholder need assessment and future state
• Developing the Vision and Strategic Options
• Gap analysis
• Identify strategic priority areas and develop the plan
• Elements to be considered for building a national geospatial strategy and action plan
• Implementing strategy

Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse FRGS FSSSI

Spatial Vision

Trainer

Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse FRGS FSSSI

Executive Director-Strategic Consulting & International Relations, Spatial Vision, Australia

Presentation
Developing a National Geospatial Strategy and Action Plan