Public-private SDI challenges in Germany
Bruggemann, Heinz
After the establishment of the basic technical and organisational structures, SDI development is now part of the application domain in Germany. This leads to new discussions on the interface between the public and private sectors and the roles of the different actors. First public-private value adding chains have successfully been built. The public and private user communities are organizing themselves to express their interests and to optimize solutions. Strong initiatives are coming up on the regional and local level, building their own SDI solutions with private and public participants. On the other hand, the INSPIRE challenges are affecting the local, State and the federal level in Germany as a federal nation. In addition, the legal realization of the PSI Directive by two German laws, one law on information liberty and one law on the reuse of public sector data, is the source for a principle debate on public data access by private users. Currently SDI-based standards are being developed and tested by the interested communities. A basic problem is sustainable maintenance of these standards. On the national level, Germany-Online Geo-Data ((Deutschland Online Geodatenn) is part of the national German e-government initiative and gives interested groups the opportunity to organize themselves under itts umbrella and to develop applications following the principle few for alll. The author is the coordinator of Germany Online Geo-Data, and is in this role involved in the field of public-private co-operation and will report about his experiences and views on the above mentioned topic.
Event: GSDI 11 Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence : Building SDI Bridges to address Global Challenges
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