Outcomes of the PCGIAP future directions seminar on 30 January 2004

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Outcomes of the PCGIAP future directions seminar
on 30 January 2004

• Peter HollandPresident PCGIAP

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Program

• Welcome and introduction (Major General VC Tyagi)
• A global perspective GSDI association
  (Professor Ian Masser)
• A regional perspective PCGIAP (Peter Holland)
• A national perspective NSDI of India (Dr Siva
  Kumar
• An education and research perspective Melbourne
  University (Professor Ian Williamson)
• A technology perspective (Dr Prithvish Nag)
• Panel discussion

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A global perspective GSDI association
(Professor Ian Masser)

• Opportunities for PCGIAP
• Through
• Influencing the future development of the GSDI
  Association
• Informing - acting as a channel for the
  dissemination upwards downwards and sideways
• Acting to establish an effective and operational
  APSDI

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A regional perspective PCGIAP

• The aims of the PCGIAP and its method of
  operation are generally still valid. They should
  be subject to continuous review.
• Participation rates must improve. Innovative
  approaches should be tested.
• Members must want to be involved. There must be
  benefits to members from their participation.
• Outputs must continue to focus on the ultimate
  objective of the APSDI. They must be achievable.
• The relationship with the UN must be
  strengthened, but not at the expense of
  independence of action.
• Links must continue to be forged with external
  bodies, to assist learning and to avoid
  duplication.
• Outputs of the PCGIAP must be defined and tested
  in consultation with stakeholders to ensure they
  are satisfied.

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A national perspective NSDI of India

• Issues to be resolved
• NSDI Standards What next ?
• Should the NSDI remain supply side, top down
  initiative or should it converge with a demand
  side bottom up approach ?
• Can we empower citizens and communities to
  author, upload and own their data
  infrastructures ?
• NSDI- Time line ahead
• Should we or should we not legislate NSDI?
• Map restriction policy
• What will be the mechanisms to ensure that the
  data assets will become a part of NSDI to meet
  quality standards ?
• Should access be controlled and regulated ?

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A national perspective NSDI of India

• Issues to be discussed
• Should links to non standard data be available ?
• Should the NSDI promote and fund data acquisition
  ?
• Cost recovery should the NSDI encourage data
  holders for adopting cost recovery principles or
  should it try and bring more and more data in the
  free of charge domain ?
• Should the NSDI limit itself to data availability
  and access or should it offer customised value
  added services to targetted users/customers ?
• Can the NSDI become a platform for public private
  partnerships for offering value added services ?
• Can we define the limits of the services to be
  made available and leave the rest to market or
  should we go the wholehog into complete range of
  products and services?
• Should there be a strong commercial drive to the
  NSDI?
• Can we leap frog technologies and offer products
  and services not conventionally associated with
  NSDIs?
• Can the NSDI user interface be technologically
  far ahead of every one

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An education and research perspective Melbourne
University

• PCGIAP to develop policies and guidelines on
  education and research
• PCGIAP to recommend that WG4 undertake a
  questionnaire to determine the amount of SDI
  teaching in SI and GIS courses and degrees in
  Asia and the Pacific
• PCGIAP to recommend that every SI or GIS course
  or degree has a subject on SDI
• PCGIAP to seek support from a PCGIAP member state
  to sponsor a SDI short course on an annual basis
  (possibly in conjunction with PCGIAP meetings)
• PCGIAP to support the establishment of SDI web
  based Newsletters world-wide

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An education and research perspective Melbourne
University

• PCGIAP to recommend that WG4 develop a generic
  course outline for a SDI subject
• PCGIAP to recommend each WG to identify two major
  issues or problems requiring research, and within
  available resources, to support that research
• PCGIAP to recommend that each member state
  support two SDI research projects at a government
  level
• PCGIAP to recommend to GSDI the establishment of
  a SDI journal
• PCGIAP to recommend that each member state should
  develop an education and research section in
  their SDI web site

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A technology perspective

• Interoperability is a growing trend. The Open GIS
  Consortium (OGC) and GSDI are still carving out
  standards -based specifications and promoting a
  national data infrastructure, in which sharing of
  information is easy and in real time.
• To have meaning, technological capabilities must
  meet human needs. The geo spatial community must
  work together to remove barriers and achieve
  success.

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Panel discussion

• Influencing decisionmakers?
• Measures of performance and effectiveness of SDI?
• Participation rates?
• Involvement of industry?

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Outcomes of the PCGIAP future directions seminar
on 30 January 2004

• Peter HollandPresident PCGIAP