GSDI 4 Cape Town, South Africa

13-15 March, 2000

Theme: Engaging Emerging Economies

Conference Program

March 13, 2000

9:00 - 12:30         Registration – President Hotel

10:30 – 12:30      Meeting of GSDI Steering Committee

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12:30 – 14:00      Opening Lunch

14:00 – 15:30      Opening Session

Session Chair: Mr. Derek Clarke, Chief Director, Surveys and Mapping, Dept of Land Affairs, South Africa

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14:00 – 14:15      Opening Ceremonies

Ms. Thoko Didiza, Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs, South Africa

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14:15 – 14:30      Welcome and Preliminary Remarks by Chair, GSDI Steering Committee

Peter Holland, General Manager, Australian Surveying & Land Information Group, Australia

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14:30 – 15:00      Panel Session – Reports from GSDI Working Groups

Operations

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Communication and Awareness

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Legal and Economic

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Technical

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15:00 – 15:30      Report on the Scoping study in the Business Case for SDI Development

15:00 – 16:00      Afternoon Refreshment Break

16:00 – 17:30      Keynote Session 1

Session Chair – Mr. Santiago Borrero-Mutis, Director General, Geographic Institute Augustin Codazzi, Columbia

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Keynote Presentation – Global Survey of National Spatial Data Infrastructure Activities 200 – Update and Status Report

Prof Harlan Onsrud, Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering and National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine, Maine, USA

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16:45 – 17:30      Theme Speaker – “Engaging Emerging Economics” – an African Perspective

Jacob Gyamfi-Aidoo, The EIS Program, Program on Environment Information System in Sub-Saharan Africa

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17:30 - 19:15      Break Before Dinner

19:15                    Conference Dinner – Castle of Good Hope

Guest Speaker – Jack Pelicci, Vice President ORACLE

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March 14, 2000

9:00 – 10:30         Session 1a – “Technical Strategies and Considerations”

Session Chair – Dr. Bob O’Neil, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

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Doug Nebert, GSDI Technical Working Group

SDI Cookbook

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Cliff Kottman, Open GIS Consortium

The impact of Open GIS upon GSDI Goals

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Roy Gronmo, SINTEF Telecom and Informatics frameworks for GIS

DISGIS: An Interoperability

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9:00 – 10:30         Session 1b – “Global Visions”

Session Chair – Prof Ian Masser, Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Science (ITC)

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Minoru Akiyama, Secretary General, ISCGM, Geographical Survey Institute

Implementation of Global Mapping Project for Global Environment

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Klaus Barwinski, Surveying & Mapping Agency Northrhine Westfalia

Step by Step Towards a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure

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Dr. W. Senus, NIMA

Global Mapping – The Shuttle Radar Terrain Mapper

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10:00 – 11:00      Morning Refreshment Break

11:00 – 12:30      Session 2a – “Case Studies and Progress Reports I”

Session Chair – Dr. Ken Bullock, Department of Information Technology and Management, NSW, Australia

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Santiago Borrero-Mutis, Geographic Institute Agustin Codazzi, Columbia

Formation of a Permanent Committee on GIS for the Americas

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Cristina Gouveia, CNIG Portugal
The Portuguese SDI and its Contribution for the GSDI

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Ravi Gupta, Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions

Development of NSDI: Opportunities and Challenges for India

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Alessandro Annoni, European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Space Application Institute, Agriculture and Regional Information System Unit

The project GI&GIS a key action of the EC Joint Research Centre to support the creation of a European Geographic Information Infrastructure

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Space Application Institute Agriculture and Regional Information System Unit

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March 14, 2000

11:00 – 12:30       Session 2b – “Directions, Policies and institutional Issue I”

Session Chair – Mr. John Moeller, Federal Geographic Data Committee, USA

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Uta When de Montalvo, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK

Access to spatial data – What of organizations to share it?

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Lisa Ting, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne

Spatial data infrastructures and good governance Frameworks for land administration reform to support sustainable development.

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Prof Ian Masser, Division of Urban Planning & Management for Aerospace Survey and the Earth Sciences (ITC)

What is a spatial data infrastructure?

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12:30 – 13:30       Lunch

13:30 – 15:00       Session 3a – Directions, Policies and Institutional Issues II

Session Chair – Minoru Akiyama, Geographical Survey Institute, Japan

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Prof John Estes, Remote Sensing Unit, University of California

The Synergism of Global Map, the Importance of Relationships

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Roger A. Longhorn, Former Expert in GI to EC [DG Information Society] PhD Research Student, City Univ London

Regenal Geographc Information Policy-The case in Europe at 2000 and lessons for GSDI

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Abbas Rajabifard, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne

From Local to Global SDI initiatives: A pyramid of building blocks

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13:30-15:00         Session 3b-A North American Perspective on NSDIs

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Mark E. Reichardt, Session Chair- Mr. Francois Salgé, National Geographic Institute, France, U. S. Federal Geographic Data Committee

SDI Challenges for a New Millennium – NSDI at a Crossroads: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

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Jane Patterson, Thomas Parrish and Karen Siderelis, North Carolina [various agencies]

Building Capacity to use GIS as a major information engine to manage information and to inform the public during natural disaster situations

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Karen Siderelis, Chief Geographic Information Officer for the U.S. Geological Survey

The role and responsibilities of the Chief Geographic Information Officer

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15:00-15:30         Afternoon Refreshments Break

March 14, 2000

15:30-17:00         Session 4a-Case Studies and Progress Reports II

Session Chair-Mr. Andre Bassolet, The EIS Program

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Bob O’Neil, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing/Geomatics Canada

Discover, Visualize, Access

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Dr. Hans Voss, GMD- German National Research Centre for Information Technology

CommonGIS – Common Access to Geographically Referenced Data

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Yves Reginster, ETeMII Consortium

ETeMII Project

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15:30-17:00         Session 4b-Technical Strategies and Considerations II

Session Chair-Mr. Jingtong Jian, National Geomatics Centre of China

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Prof. Milan Konecny, Department of Geography

The Role of GSDI in Digital Earth, Design and Development from Technology to Interoperability

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Ilya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Cener

XML – Based Spatial Data Mediation Infrastructure for Global Interoperability

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Foster K. Mensah, Remote Sensing Applications Unit

The need to developing a standardized meta-data for spatial datasets in Ghana

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16:00                     Meetings of GSDI Steering Committee to Consider         Preparation of Initial Resolutions

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Evening

Sundowner on Table Mountain

March 15, 2000

8:30-10:30           Session 1

Session Chair: Mr. Albert Mhlanga, Surveyor General’s Departments, Swaziland

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8:30 – 9:00           Keynote Presentation

Mr. Orlando Nino-Fluck, Senior Cartographic Officer

Development Information Services Division

United Nations Economics Commission for Africa

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9:00-10:30           GSDI Africa Session

Andre Bassolet, Chairman of the International Advisory Committee for the EIS Program

An Overview of SDI Activity in Africa

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Camille A.J. van der Harten, SADC Regional Remote Sensing Unit Harare – Zimbabwe

Spatial Data in the SADC Region in support of Early Warning for Food Security and National Resources Management

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Chukwudozie Ezigbalike, University of Botswana

Spatial Data Infrastructures: Is Africa Ready?

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10:30-11:00         Morning Refreshment Break

11:00-12:30         Session 2  Closing Session

Session Co-Chairs- Mr. Derek Clarke, Chief Directorate, Surveys and Mapping, Department of Land Affairs, South Africa

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Mr. Peter Holland, General Manager, Australian Surveying & Land Information Group, Australia

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11:00-11:30          Keynote Presentation

Mr. Juan Mayr-Maldonado, Minister of the Environment in the Government of Columbia Chairman, United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development

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11:30-12:30         Resolutions and Close of Conference

12:30-13:30         Lunch