How a national GI association supports the SDI development : the case of Hungary
Remetey-Fulopp, Gabor
In this paper the activities of the non-profit, interdisciplinary national GI umbrella organisation HUNAGI are highlighted demonstrating the influence of its member institutions and organistions in the evolution of the National Spatial Data Infrastruture in Hungary. The paper will focus on networking, channeled communication, and HUNAGIIs involvement in SDI-related actions on domestic and international level. The facilitator role of the organisation is introduced based on the multisector networking with governmental agencies, academic institutions, universities, the private sector, NGOs and local governments. Most of the prime data providers, stakeholders, value added service operators and users became member or partner of the national GI association. Having about 100 member institutions and organisations, HUNAGI is in direct contact with about 500 domestic experts in GI on regular basis including postgraduate students and alumni as individuals. Membership architecture and impact of the economic recession will be highlighted. In order to support the availability, reliability, accessibility and useability of spatial data in line with INSPIRE and PSI directives, HUNAGI as SDIC is heavily involved in awareness raising, information share and channeling, arranging joint actions involving the target user communities and sharing knowledge and know-how on best practices and lessons to be learned. Partnership with the e-content industry, the logistics community, the space-related cluster and the ITS sector will be mentioned. Tools used for the community interface will be highlighted. The field of operation is not restricted on the domestic links. One of the feature of HUNAGI is the commited involvement in the SDI-related international relations such as EUROGI, GSDI and Digital Earth. There is a link to UNSDI too. These activities will be introduced and the benefits will be illustrated. HUNAGI and its members are contributing to several EU projects in order to enable better implementation of the relevant legislation framework directives. Here the Humboldt (supporting GMES and INSPIRE), eSDI-Net+ (SDI best practice identification, evaluation and dissemination), EURADIN (harmonizing address infrastructure) and LAPSI (legal aspects of public sector information and re-use) will be mentioned.
Event: International Conference on Spatial Data Infrastructure 2010
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