Transcript 4th Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Conference

4th Global Spatial
Data Infrastructure
(GSDI) Conference
13-15 March Cape Town
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General information
Hosted by Ministry for Agriculture and
Land Affairs of South Africa
180 international delegates
Theme: Engaging Emerging Economies
Special plenary session on SDI
development in Africa
Many interesting papers were presented
Available at www.gsdi.org web site
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Steering Committee
Establish global umbrella organisation
Develop business case for SDI development
Support transitional initiatives (PC for GIS
Infrastructure for Americas, Africa and Middle
East)
Establish working groups (Operations:
produced Cookbook; Technical;
Communication and Awareness; Legal and
Economic
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Recommendations
GSDI Steering Committee shall
document case studies as next step in
the development of the business case.
Terms of reference for the legal and
economic working group are accepted
and Prof. Harlan Onsrud should be
invited to join the group as co-chair
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Resolutions
Establish a secretariat of staff from
more nations to provide a continuous
level of support
GSDI will provide a level of outreach
and education to raise national
awareness and deploy resources to
help developments consistent with
global infrastructures
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Agreements
GSDI Steering Committee accepted the
invitation of Colombia to host the 5th GSDI
conference in May 2001
Consensus for rotation the conferences to
other regions with GSDI 6th to be coordinated
by EUROGI and held in Europe end 2002 or
early 2003
GSDI accepts invitation for class A liasion to
ISO/TC 211
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Observations
GSDI focus on thematic domains e.g.
disaster and crisis management
more initiatives of Europe are needed
e.g. contribution to GSDI cookbook
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Observations
Debate on GSDI similar to EGII
coordination
 identification of core data
 data access and discovery
 legal and economic issues
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European initiatives
use the outcomes of the GSDI
conference at Cape Town to
Help development of the European Spatial
Data Infrastructure (ESDI)
 prepare an ESDI cookbook related to and
input for the global debate (GSDI
Cookbook)
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