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Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Capacity Building

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Capacity Building. Cambridge Conference Keith R. Thackrey GSDI Secretariat kthackre@gsdi.org 20-25 August, 2003. Topics. Background Capacity Building Funding and Current Programs. Background. GSDI History. Started in the mid 1990s

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Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Capacity Building

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  1. Global Spatial Data InfrastructureCapacity Building Cambridge Conference Keith R. Thackrey GSDI Secretariat kthackre@gsdi.org 20-25 August, 2003

  2. Topics • Background • Capacity Building • Funding and Current Programs

  3. Background

  4. GSDI History • Started in the mid 1990s • Small group of visionaries • The same benefits that are realized internally translate across international boundaries

  5. GSDI Purpose To encourage the collection, processing, archiving, integrating, and sharing of geospatial data and information using common standards and interoperable systems and techniques ….. and accessible via the web

  6. GSDI Conferences • 1st International meeting held in Bonn Germany in 1995 • A small group of invited attendees only • 6th International GSDI meeting Budapest in September 2002 • Jointly with International Steering Committee for Global Map (ISCGM) • Over 250 attendees • Representing over 50 countries

  7. GSDI-6 Resolution Resolution 4 – Capacity Building for NSDI The GSDI Association will give special attention to develop capacity building efforts with particular reference to obtaining resources for sustained capacity building in developing nations.

  8. Capacity Building

  9. Basic Training • Build a common basis for discussion and development • Concepts • Definitions • Tools

  10. Regional Training • Begin work on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) • National SDI (NSDI) information sharing • Things that worked and didn’t • Facilitator brings examples • Participants share examples • Maintain in training data base, and GSDI cookbook

  11. Sustainability • Establish task force of local, regional, and global partners to monitor growth • Establish national and regional coordinators • Track progress against pre-defined criteria (goals of regional training) • Build remediation plans to address shortfalls

  12. Beyond GIS • NSDI is only valuable as a tool to the non-GIS communities • Identify and contact user disciplines • Workshops for other disciplines • Components of NSDI (GIS basics) • How to use NSDI (discipline specific) • Successful examples (discipline and region specific)

  13. Funding • GSDI doesn’t need to lead the individual projects, but should be a partner • GSDI must coordinate across projects to ensure we achieve global goals • Many other partners • Potential grant sources • National contributions

  14. Current Projects • Global Map (GM)/GSDI Grant • Intergraph Grant • MACGA • URISA GeoCorps • JICA Sponsored Regional GM/GSDI Nairobi Training

  15. Additional Information • www.gsdi.org Global Spatial Data Infrastructure • www.fgdc.gov Federal Geographic Data Committee • www.opengis.org Open GIS Consortium • www.eurogi.org European Umbrella Org. for Geog. Info. • www.cpidea.org.co Permanent Comm. For the Americas • www.pcgiap.org PCGIAP

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