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Summary of the Survey Results Compiled by OGC

Presented and Complemented by Luiz Paulo S.Fortes

Director of NMO, Brazil

President of PC-IDEA

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IntroductionIntroduction

• This presentation is based on the compilation of the results from the first survey of members of the Global Advisory Council (GAC), and augmented via discussions during two teleconferences

• Total number of survey responses: 19

– North and East Asia: 5– North America: 4– Europe, Middle East and Africa: 5– Latin America: 4– South Asia: 1

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• Surveys indicate greater effort required to connect with NMOs and other international organisations.

• Through Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association, United Nations (UN), geospatial industry press/conferences and various universities SDI has been promoted since the mid-1990s. – Establishment of the “Sistema Nacional de Informação

Geográfica – SNIG”, Portugal, 1995

• There is a growing awareness of SDIs and value of interoperability, but in many places this awareness is vague, rudimentary and uncoordinated.

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Background

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• Surveys highlighted main barriers to adoption of SDI good practice, that is, framework for interoperable sharing and dissemination of geospatial information: – lack of political will or motivational drivers– poor technical qualifications of advisers to politicians– lack of awareness/understanding of need for standards– vendor lock-in– corruption practices.

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Issues

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• Adoption of standards needs to be led and/or driven by the government – a “top down” process.

• This brings about compliance.• A challenge is posed by some critical agencies who

have yet to understand the value of the OGC (consensus, interoperability, networking, policies, capacity building, dissemination of best practices).

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Requirements

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• “OGC compliance” should be included in tenders/RFPs issued by government agencies at all levels.“OGC compliant” must be understood by the community to ensure the process works.

• This approach can attract suppliers (including integrators and resellers) to obtain compliance.

• It may also open new opportunities with software development companies.

• Endorsements from global players such as Google, Microsoft and Oracle, as well as geospatial companies like ESRI and Intergraph very important.

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Considerations

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• There are various issues of technical interoperability, semantic interoperability and institutional interoperability.

• Implementation in government is usually project based, so approaches using standards-based architectures varies from project to project.

• Specific requirements for geospatial interoperability should be highlighted to IT departments.

• Ultimately it is a business value decision.

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Considerations

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• SDI is mainly applied to certain types of information, e.g. a platform for remote sensing information. It is important to: – Refine and improve relevant standards.– Improve ease of use.– Build on work done on space imaging infrastructure.– Design and demonstrate high interoperability frameworks.– Promote demonstration projects.– Explain the business value.

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Considerations

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• Use the institutional frameworks and networks that already exist around the NMOs (nationally and multinationally) to promote standards.

• Build on emerging relationships with EuroGeographics and Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Africa.

• Assess international projects and cooperation e.g. PC-IDEA, GeoSur, IDECAN, PREDECAN in Latin America and PCGIAP in Asia Pacific.

• Develop relationships to support various, different national SDIs where standards play a major role.

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Opportunity

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Multinational forums with national mapping agencies, governments, and international

organisations encouraging the adoption of standards

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GLOBAL SDI (GSDI, GGIM, ISCGM)

REGIONAL SDI (PC-IDEA)

NATIONAL SDI

STATE LEVEL SDI

The integration of SDIs

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Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil

ChileCanada Colombia Costa Rica

Cuba Ecuador El Salvador United States

Guatemala Guyana Honduras Jamaica

Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay

Peru Dominican Republic

Uruguay Venezuela

Permanent Committee for Geospatial Data Infrastructure of the Americas (PC-IDEA)

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Next PC-IDEA meeting: August 15-18, 2011, in Rio de Janeiro, along with the Latin American Geospatial Forum

• Institutional capacity building, education and training

• Standards and technical specifications

• Best practices and guidelines for the development of SDI

• Inventory of innovations in national mapping organizations

• Gather knowledge on topics relevant to SDI for the region

• Assess the status of SDI development in the Americas

• Implementation of technological means for discussion related to access to geospatial data and the role of governments in the management and dissemination of these data

• Organization of an event on the management of natural disasters and SDI

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The importance of Standards to NSDI of Brazil

Geographic Names

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• National and regional SDI activities vary dramatically around the world in scope and status.

• It is viewed that countries leading the way will create a “pull” for developing regions to participate.

• The situation is expected to improve in near future with the launching/boosting of many multinational initiatives.

• In the era of globalisation and with the speed of innovation on Internet communication technologies, OGC best practices are invaluable for NMOs.

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