Joint Research Centrethe 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

AgendaSession 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, FAOWhat 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 complianceMoldova (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.)