May 17th 2009

GSDI President, Bas Kok, was an invited keynote speaker to the United Nations supported Forum on Land Administration for the Asia and Pacific Region. It was held in Tehran, Iran from May 24-26, 2009 and attended by more than 400 delegates, representing 15 countries and 4 international organizations.

Mr. Kok gave two presentations, one on GSDI and the other on the Dutch Cadastre.

1. View Bas Kok’s Presentation on GSDI here: presentation and speech.

2. View Bas Kok’s Presentation on Dutch Cadastre here: presentation and speech.

Cooperation GSDI and PCGIAP on Spatially Enabled Government: Mr. Kok stressed the importance of the cooperation between PCGIAP and GSDI and gave another short overview of their common workshop in Seoul in June 2007 and presented the main conclusions. This cooperation provides a model for collaboration in the further development of spatially enabled governments using successful SDI/e-government implementations in Europe and the Asia Pacific regions as a model and gave examples of initiators. Prof. Kok gave examples of successful SDI implementations in Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea and Australia where SDI and e government processes are closely interrelated with each other. This relationship is an important driver for the development of more advanced spatial enabled government approaches.

The GSDI Association is a forum which stimulates this approach as a fundamental element for successful spatial enabled government performances.

The Dutch cadastre and E-Government in The Netherlands: Mr. Kok presented the huge benefits that the Dutch cadastre has by having the cadastre, the land registry and the topographic mapping function under the same organization. He illustrated with various examples that the Dutch Cadastre plays a strategic key role in the national SDI implementation. One of the benefits to this approach is that they take the lead in the creation of one-stop-shop and web-based services, which allows the provision of manifold e-Government services. Key registers were introduced, they currently have a legal basis and must be obigatory used by all the public agencies in the Netherlands In this approach Cadastre is also responsible for key registers for adresses address data topographic small scale basic data, information on cables and pipe lines. The national register of 80 public restrictions in properties increases the use and these cadastral data for the Dutch community, citizens etc.The cadastre has been assigned to be the distributor of the Dutch topographic large scale basic map.from 2012.