Welcome to the INSPIRE-Geospatial World Forum Conference

Vladimir Sucha, Director General

European Commission Joint Research Centre

www.jrc.ec.europa.eu

Serving society

Stimulating innovation

Supporting legislation

Joint Research Centre

Geospatial technologies fuel the data economy

http://government-2020.dupress.com/driver/geospatial-technology//

Major European investment in geospatial data

• Copernicus programme (2014-2020)

• The Galileo programme (2011-2020)

• FP7 (2007-2013) and Horizon2020 (2014-2020)

The Digital Single Market

• ”The global economy is rapidly becoming digital. ICT is no longer a specific sector but the foundation of all modern innovative economic systems”.

• The DSM is a major opportunity for industry

• We need to remove the legal and interoperability barriers between organisations, systems and data which are still fragmenting the market.

INSPIRE, Europe’s lingua franca for anything geospatial

Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007

establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)

Directive 2013/37/EU of 26 June 2013

amending Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector

information (PSI) Directive 2003/98/ECinformation (PSI) Directive 2003/98/EC

Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, and the

Committee of the Regions: A Digital Agenda for Europe -

COM(2010) 245 final/2

EU Open Data Strategy

Towards interoperability for European public services

COM(2010) 744

EU implementation of the G8 Open DataCharter

Digital Single Market

INSPIRE added value

• Turn increasing volume of interoperable and accessible data into value-added products and services supporting policy, business and the public.

Location of new ICT SMEs

1995 - 2000

2001 - 2004

• The private sector plays a crucial

role in addressing this challenge.

JRC challenges

• Supporting INSPIRE implementation

and evolution

• Open data and knowledge

managementmanagement

• New technologies and social media

provide major opportunities for more

participative forms of policy making,

• New source of scientific evidence and

engaging the different stakeholders in

the production of science.

Example of citizen science: MYGEOSS

• Two-year project (2015-16) by the European Commission to develop GEOSS-based smart Internet applications informing European citizens on local environment.

• Three open calls for innovative ideas: March and November 2015, and March 2016.November 2015, and March 2016.

• First call resulted in 58 applications

• 10 winning apps address air and water quality, urban indicators, invasive species, hazard and allergens alerts, scuba-divers information, light pollution, and dust storms early warning.

• We announce the results at: http://digitalearthlab.jrc.ec.europa.eu/mygeoss/call.cfm

Public-Private Sector Convergence

• Policies, technologies and applications are the three key factors affecting growth of the European and global geospatial industry.