Joint Research Centre the European Commission's
in-house science service
Financing the
Evolution of
Spatial Data
Infrastructures
Robin S. Smith
Alexander Kotsev
Jean Dusart
Context
Investment in SDI is needed
However …
New rules = new game?
Changing data sources
Emerging technologies
Citizen’s attitude
More active
‘Free’ is a good price?!
Community Data
Population from Cell Phone data
Mobile devices at 08:01 h.
IoT
The three questions …
1. Why establish an SDI?
2. What kind of SDI?
3. How to sustain an SDI?
Presenters ….
Organisations
International organisations
Government agencies
SMEs and NGOs
Agenda Session 1. 14:00 – 15:30, Room H3
Why establish an SDI?
SDIs contributing to jobs and growth in Europe (A. Figueiredo, UNECE)
What makes convincing investment case for the WB/FAO – (R. Tonchovska, FAO
What kind of SDI?
What kind of infrastructure/data should be covered by the public sector?
Slovenia (T. Petek)
Slovakia (M. Tuchyna, Slovak Environmental Agency)
Beyond legal compliance
Moldova (M. Ovdii, )
Albania (L. Cala, State Authority for Geospatial Information) Session 2. 16:00 – 17:30, Room H3
How to finance and sustain an SDI?
Geospatial business line concept of the World Bank (K. Kelm, World Bank)
Country experiences with donor funding
Poland (E. Surma, D. Kopczewski)
Serbia (J. Matic-Varenica, RGA)
Crowdfunding and other novel approaches (D. Frigne, Osgeo Europe NL)
Establishing open source infrastructures (Geolabs, G. Fenoy)
Discussion and conclusions (20 min.)
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