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Mission goals and strategic priorities include: Act according to the European Commission INSPIRE principles and coordinate with the UNSDI development process. Support national/cross-border implementation of the INSPIRE Directive. Awareness raising on SDI at political level. Strengthen cohesion between stakeholders and other interested parties ie. public services, SMEs and SDICs. Provide synergies in local, regional, national and global dimensions with outreach towards EU neighbouring countries

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

GSDI Legal and Socioeconomic Committee actions

Very recently, Peter Woodgate, CEO of the Science Information Center in Australia and Dr. Robert S. Chen of CIESIN/NASA SEDAC and Secretary General of ICSU Codata expressed their interest to be involved or monitor the activities of this group co-chaired by Roger Longhorn and me. Dr. Chen contribution to the GSDI LSE Com Repository of Best Practices was his presentation delivered at the final plenary at the 6th Digital Earth Symposium in Beijing.

Forther links to CIESIN, NASA SEDAC and CODATA are:
CIESIN web site: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu
SEDAC web site: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu
CODATA web site: http://www.codata.org