GSDI - 9

Conference Topics

GSDI conferences are opportunities to meet and exchange views about implementing and developing spatial data concepts and practices. This conference will provide an occasion for interaction and cooperation among disciplines that use and develop spatial technologies and databases and with policy-makers at local, regional and global levels.

GSDI-9 invites presentations covering the full range of practice, development and research experiences that advance the practice and theory of spatial data infrastructure development.

Submissions relating to the GSDI-9 theme of Spatial Information: Tool for Reducing Poverty are particularly attractive.

Specific presentation topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Design and development of depositories, portals, and registries for geographic data, metadata and services.

· Innovative methods for addressing technical, legal, economic or institutional challenges in implementing spatial data infrastructure concepts, components and systems.

· Experiences with current spatial data infrastructures at local, regional, national and multi-national levels and their evaluation.

· Challenges and approaches to standardization of data and interoperability of systems.

· Barriers to the sharing of data and methods for achieving success in sharing.

· Alternative methods and models for planning, financing and implementing spatial data infrastructure or related initiatives.

· Policies supporting creation and responsible management of spatial data infrastructure resources.

· Progress achieved by developing nations through information infrastructure development efforts.

· Facilitation of international support for the development of spatial data infrastructure.

· Analysis of practical cases to determine whether infrastructure initiatives are actually achieving goals such as increasing efficiency and effectiveness in the management of information or helping to advance health, education, social welfare, security, safety and similar social goals.

· Education and capacity building efforts.

· Basic and applied research in advancing spatial data infrastructure theory and concepts.

The above topics are suggested by of the Conference Planning Committee but other topics such as those linking the geosciences to spatial data infrastructure concepts are invited.