HUNAGI Conference met the participants' needs

Some snapshots of the event made for the HUNAGI Visuals resource are available for use according to the Creative Commons 2.5 Hungary License at: http://picasaweb.google.com/gabor.remetey/HUNAGIKonferencia2010

Moreover, a visual report of the event has been prepared by Dr. László Makula of Kvantitás Ltd for the wider public in agreement with HUNAGI. The collection of annotated photomosaics is downloadable by clicking on the header of this post.
The following presentations of the conference are available to download
by clicking the respective word  PPT. Please note the size of the pdf files.

Mindenért fizetni kell?

Avagy téradatok és kezelésük szabad hozzáféréssel

2010. február 25. – Budapest

(A megvalósult program)

Az önkormányzati feladatok (tér)informatikai problémái Szekció vezetője: Barkóczi Zsolt

Barkóczi Zsolt (HUNAGI elnök) – köszöntő

Sirman Ferenc (FVM szakállamtitkár, házigazda)

dr. Zöld-Nagy Viktória (ÖM Közigazgatási hivatali, Jegyzői és Hatósági Főosztály főosztályvezető-helyettes) PPT

Dr. Ottófi Rudolf (Megyei Jogú Városok Szövetsége, Informatikai Bizottság alelnöke; Győr MJV alpolgármestere) PPT . Koreferátum: Keringer Zsolt, (MJSZV IB titkára, Szombathely MJV informatikai vezetője)

Nyílt vita

moderátor: Barkóczi Zsolt (HUNAGI elnök). Vitára meghívottak: délelőtti előadók (Dr. Ottófi Rudolf, Keringer Zsolt); Dr. Kerekes Zsuzsanna (Adatvédelmi Ombudsman Hivatala, Főosztályvezető); Prajczer Tamás (GeoX Kft., Ügyvezető Igazgató); Tóth Sándor (FVM, Főosztályvezető helyettes)

Önkormányzati (tér)informatikai problémák, megoldások külföldön Szekció vezetője: Dr. Remetey-Fülöpp Gábor

Rui Pedro Juliao, Prof. Dr. (EUROGI Executive Committee Member) – PPT IGP experiences providing service for the local governments using opensource softwares and freely available data

Dr. Karel Charvat (HUMBOLDT project) – PPT Open Source and Open Data Accessibility as the way to Single Information Space for Environment also at the Local Government

Ms. Athina Trakas (Open Geospatial Consortium, Director, European Services PPTIntegration of geospatial data with OGC standards and Open Source Software: from local government to state level

FH Prof. Dr. Gernot PAULUS (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences PPTVice Dean, Professor) – Open Address Portal for Austria  (Crowdsourcing of Geodata – User-generated Geocontent)

Továbblépési lehetőségek Szekció vezetője: Mikus Dezső

Székács Szabolcs (European Commission, Informatics Directorate-General) – PPT Együtt könnyebb! OSOR.eu: kollaboratív feljesztői környezet és OSS project tárház

Szittner Károly (MEH Informatikai Államtitkárság, Titkárságvezető) PPT

Juhász Géza Péter – Dolleschal János (Cascadoss Magyarország Egyesület és Compet-Terra Bt.) – PPT A CASCADOSS projekt eredményei

Kolesár András (Magyar Geocaching Egyesület, elnökségi tag) – PPT Közösségi építésű téradatok Magyarországon: Turistautak.hu feltérképezzük környezetünket

Zaka Ferenc (Openmaps projekt alapító)– PPT Közösségi építésű téradatok Magyarországon: Openmaps.eu

Záró, nyílt vita

moderátor: Juhász Géza Péter (CASCADOSS Magyarország Egyesület Elnök) Vitára meghívottak: Dr. Alabér László (HM Térképészeti Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft., Szakértő); Dr. Siki Zoltán (BME Általános és Felsőgeodézia Tanszék, egyetemi adjunktus) Janovszki Zsolt (Tekiré Kft., Üzletfejlesztési igazgató); Keringer Zsolt (Szombathely MJV Polgármesteri Hivatal Informatikai Irodavezető); Dr. Mihály Szabolcs (FÖMI, Főigazgató) Szabó Krisztina, (ESRI Magyarország Kft., Üzletágvezető, e-Kormányzat); Pogrányi Károly (Hungarocad Kft., Ügyvezető Igazgató); Szittner Károly (MEH Informatikai Államtitkárság, Titkárságvezető) Takács Ferenc (Zalaegerszeg MJV Önkormányzata térinformatikusa); Baranyi Péter (Varinex Zrt., GIS üzletági igazgató)

The paper of Dr. Andrea Giacomelli et al presented at the Swiss.Italian FOSS Conference held in Lugano on 11th February was summarized by the speaker Dr. Giacomelli and submitted to the participants of the HUNAGI Conference. The contribution was posted on the HUNAGI Hungarian Newsblog on 19th February first. It can be downloaded here too:

http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/giacomelli_et_al_4_hunagi_20100225.pdf

So far HUNAGI Conference attracted 162 registered participants

Mindenért fizetni kell?

Avagy téradatok és kezelésük szabad hozzáféréssel

2010. február 25. – Budapest

FVM Színházterem

(1055 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 11.)

9:00 – 10:00 Regisztráció
10:00–12:00	Az önkormányzati feladatok (tér)informatikai problémái Szekció vezetője: Barkóczi Zsolt
10:00–10:05	Barkóczi Zsolt (HUNAGI elnök) – köszöntő
10:05–10:20	Sirman Ferenc (FVM szakállamtitkár, házigazda)
10:20–10:35	dr. Zöld-Nagy Viktória (ÖM Közigazgatási hivatali, Jegyzői és Hatósági Főosztály főosztályvezető-helyettes)
10:35–10:55	Kósa Lajos (Megyei Jogú Városok Szövetsége, Elnök; Debrecen polgármestere)
10:55–11:15	Borján Péter (Települési Önkormányzatok Szövetsége, informatikai tanácsnok; Kőszárhegy polgármestere) – február 24-én lemondva
11:15–12:00	Nyílt vita
	moderátor: Barkóczi Zsolt (HUNAGI elnök). Vitára meghívottak: délelőtti előadók (ÖM szakállamtitikár, Sirman Ferenc, Kósa Lajos, Borján Péter); Dr. Kerekes Zsuzsanna (Adatvédelmi Ombudsman Hivatala, Főosztályvezető); Prajczer Tamás (GeoX Kft., Ügyvezető Igazgató); Tóth Sándor (FVM, Főosztályvezető helyettes)
12:00 – 12:50 Ebéd
12:50– 14:10	Önkormányzati (tér)informatikai problémák, megoldások külföldön Szekció vezetője: Dr. Remetey-Fülöpp Gábor
12:50–13:10	Rui Pedro Juliao, Prof. Dr. (EUROGI Executive Committee Member) – IGP experiences providing service for the local governments using opensource softwares and freely available data
13:10–13:30	Dr. Karel Charvat (HUMBOLDT project) – Open Source and Open Data Accessibility as the way to Single Information Space for Environment also at the Local Government
13:30–13:50	Ms. Athina Trakas (Open Geospatial Consortium, Director, European Services) – Integration of geospatial data with OGC standards and Open Source Software: from local government to state level
13:50–14:10	FH Prof. Dr. Gernot PAULUS (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Vice Dean, Professor) – Open Address Portal for Austria  (Crowdsourcing of Geodata – User-generated Geocontent)
14:10 – 14:30 Kávészünet
14:30–15:50	Továbblépési lehetőségek Szekció vezetője: Mikus Dezső
14:30 – 14:50	Székács Szabolcs (European Commission, Informatics Directorate-General) – Együtt könnyebb! OSOR.eu: kollaboratív feljesztői környezet és OSS project tárház
14:50–15:10	Szittner Károly (MEH Informatikai Államtitkárság, Titkárságvezető)
15:10–15:30	Juhász Géza Péter – Dolleschal János (Cascadoss Magyarország Egyesület és Compet-Terra Bt.) – A CASCADOSS projekt eredményei
15:30–15:50	Zaka Ferenc (Openmaps projekt alapító); Kolesár András (Magyar Geocaching Egyesület, elnökségi tag) – Közösségi építésű téradatok Magyarországon: Openmaps.eu és turistautak.hu
15:50–16:40	Záró, nyílt vita
	moderátor: Juhász Géza Péter (CASCADOSS Magyarország Egyesület Elnök) Vitára meghívottak: Dr. Alabér László (HM Térképészeti Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft., Szakértő); Dr. Siki Zoltán (BME Általános és Felsőgeodézia Tanszék, egyetemi adjunktus) Janovszki Zsolt (Tekiré Kft., Üzletfejlesztési igazgató); Keringer Zsolt (Szombathely MJV Polgármesteri Hivatal Informatikai Irodavezető); Mihály Szabolcs (FÖMI, Főigazgató) Szabó Krisztina, (ESRI Magyarország Kft., Üzletágvezető, e-Kormányzat); Pogrányi Károly (Hungarocad Kft., Ügyvezető Igazgató); Szittner Károly (MEH Informatikai Államtitkárság, Titkárságvezető) Takács Ferenc (Zalaegerszeg MJV Önkormányzata térinformatikusa); Baranyi Péter (Varinex Zrt., GIS üzletági igazgató)
Zárás

UN-SPIDER Regional Workshop Building upon Regional Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management and Emergency Response for Africa

For details of the event scheduled for late May in Addis Ababa please click on the header.

ePSIplatform portal news on the HUNAGI Conference

Ms. Mary Bagnoli just informed the Hungarian portal correspondent, that the news has been published today afternoon. For details please click on the header.

Just launched: Journal of Agricultural Informatics

From our daily mail. Prof. Dr Miklós Herdon, President of the Hungarian Federation of Agricultural Informatics (www.magisz.org)submitted the following information this morning. A new electronic journal on agricultural informatics has been launched. You can register as reader ad/or author for the journal by clicking on the header. Many of the topics of the Journal of Agricultural Informatics has direct relevance with sensing, gathering, processing and using spatial data.


URL of the Journal of Agricultural Informatics: http://journal.magisz.org

URL of the MAGISZ  magisz.org

Hungarian participant at the IGWCO Workshop in New York City

Upon a recent call announced by HUNAGI on January 29 at the hunagi19.blogspot.com and supported by Prof. Dr. Miklós Neményi, Dr. Gabor Milics assistant professor of the University of West Hungary, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Institute of Biosystems Engineering will have the opportunity to take part at the GEO Workshop hosted by the City University of New York. Dr. Milics will provide a short report for the Hungarian GI community on the event.
For additional details please click on the header. The topics of the Integrated Global Water Cycle Observation Workshop are closely related to one of the societal benefit areas of GEO/GEOSS.

HUNAGI Conference on FOSS and freely accessible geospatial data

Image: © HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2010

Venue: MoARD Building, Budapest
Date: 25 February, 2010

As integrated part of the full day program having working language in Hungarian, a plenary session will be devoted to share experiences and disseminate best practices from abroad by the active participation of experts from the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (EUROGI), the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the HUMBOLDT project and from Austria. In this session the working language will be English. 
To register please click on the header or on the following link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGNWSV9XX1Zya0RLZTZrNFJHRTVsX2c6MA
To see the program in Hungarian, please use the following link:

http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/HUNAGI_konferencia_program_100121.doc

Until now we have 89 registered participants. The pie chart shows their breakdown by sectors. The anticipated number of the participants is about 200. Target audience is representatives of local governments and their partner institutions and organisations.
The program in English is as follows:

Do we have to pay for everything?

Spatial data and their management with open access

Budapest, 25th February 2010

MoARD Theatre Room

Budapest V. Kossuth Lajos tér 11

9:00 – 10:00 Registration
10:00–12:00	(Spatial) informatics and tasks of the local governments Session Chair: Zsolt Barkóczi
10:00–10:05	Welcome address  Zsolt Barkóczi, President  HUNAGI
10:05–10:20	Ferenc Sirman, State Secretary MoARD
10:20–10:35	Ms. Dr. Viktória Zöld-Nagy, Deputy Director General, Department of Public Administration,  Ministry of Self Governments
10:35–10:55	Lajos Kósa Lajos, President, Federation of the Cities with County Right
10:55–11:15	Péter Borján, Mayor of Kőszárhegy, Federation of Settlement Self Governments
11:15–12:00	Discussion
	Open discussion moderated by Zsolt Barkóczi. Invited panelists includes the morning speakers and Dr. Zsuzsanna Kerekes (Director General, Office of the Ombudsman); Tamás Prajczer (GeoX Ltd., Managing director); Sándor Tóth (Deputy Director General, MoARD)
12:00 –12:50 Lunch
12:50–14:10	Best practices from abroad Session Chair: Dr. Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp
12:50-13:10	Prof. Dr. Rui Pedro Juliao, (EUROGI Executive Committee Member) – IGP experiences providing service for the local governments using opensource softwares and freely available data
13:10-13:30	Dr. Karel Charvat (HUMBOLDT project) – Open Source and Open Data Accessibility as the way to Single Information Space for Environment also at the Local Government
13:30-13:50	Ms. Athina Trakas (Open Geospatial Consortium, Director, European Services) – Integration of geospatial data with OGC standards and Open Source Software: from local government to state level
13:50-14:10	FH Prof. Dr. Gernot PAULUS (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Vice Dean, Professor) – Open Address Portal for Austria  (Crowdsourcing of Geodata – User-generated Geocontent)
14:10 – 14:30 Coffee break
14:30–15:50	Opportunities for the way ahead Session Chair: Dezső Mikus
14:30 – 14:50	Szabolcs Székács (European Commission, Informatics Directorate-General) – It is easier together! OSOR.eu: collaborative development environment and OSS project clearinghouse
14:50–15:10	Károly Szittner (Director of Secretariat, State Secretariat for Informatics, Prime Minister’s Office);
15:10–15:30	Géza Péter Juhász– János Dolleschal (CASCADOSS Hungary Society - Compet-Terra Bt ) – Results of the CASCADOSS project
15:30–15:50	Ferenc Zaka (Founder, Openmaps project); András Kolesár (Member of the  Board, Hungarian Society of  Geocaching) –Community built spatial data in Hungary: Openmaps.eu and turistautak.hu
15:50–16:40	Open discussion
	Open discussion moderated by Géza Péter Juhász, President, CASCADOSS Hungary Society  Invited panelists include: Dr. László Alabér (Expert, Mapping Nonprofit Ltd of the MoD); Dr. Zoltán Siki (Dept. of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics) György Husza (Managing Director, Tekiré Ltd.); Zsolt Keringer (CIO, Local Government of Szombathely) Dr. Szabolcs Mihály (General Director, FÖMI); Krisztina Szabó, (Manager Industry, eGovernment, ESRI Magyarország Ltd.); Károly Pogrányi (Managing Director, Hungarocad Ltd.,); Károly Szittner (Director of Secretariat, State Secretariat for Informatics, Prime Minister’s Office); Ferenc Takács (GIS expert Local Government of  Zalaegerszeg); Voloncs György (General Director, Varinex Ltd.)
Wrap-up

Supporting organisations: 
ESRI Hungary Ltd, HungaroCAD Ltd, Varinex Stakeholders Co., Tekiré Ltd.

GEOforum the first Slovak Geospatial News Magazine subscribes HUNAGI eNewsletter

From our daily mail. Dominik Kubik, Editor in chief of GEOforum, the Slovak geospatial news magazine wrote in his letter received this morning:
"I would like to ask you for subscription to your HUNAGI/UNSDI HUCO electronic Newsletter. I started and still running the first Slovak geospatial news site GEOforum(www.geodezia.org) and I would like to get information about geospatial life in Hungary to share it to the visitors of our site."
In the reply HUNAGI expressed its intention to strengthen the professional links.
To visit GEOforum, please click on the header.

International Seminar on Early Warning and Crises Management

From our daily mail. Prof. Milan Konecny, former President of  ICA and Vice-President of  ISDE wrote:
"Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I would like to inform you about coming event which will be held in Novosibirsk, Russia. Please be so kind and distribute information through your scientific and personal networks and circles and just inform your colleagues and friends."International Seminar on Early Warning and Crises Management (http://ssga.ru/main/geosibir.html) organized by ICA (WG Cartography on Early Warning and Crises Management), ISDE and SSGA will be held on April 28 at Geo-Siberia-2010 Congress and Trade Fair in Novosibirsk, Russia. 

Local contact: Argina Novitskaya: argina@gmx.de; 

International contact: Milan Konecny: konecny@geogr.muni.cz;.
Contemporary I would like to remind you coming events in Nessebar, Bulgaria, ...www.Cartography-GIS.com/digitalearth ..."

Hungarian papers accepted for the Digital Earth Summit in Nessebar

The joint paper of members of the National IYPE Committee in Hungary was accepted by the Organising Committee of the Digital Earth Summit. The event is hosted by Bulgaria in Nessebar in June 12-14.
Acceptance has been issued also for the Humboldt project-related abstract submitted by Dániel Kristóf (FÖMI) et al. 

Newest HUNAGI/UNSDI HUCO electronic Newsletter distributed

For free subscription please write to the Editor: gabor.remetey@gmail.com

For additional information please visit  HUNAGI's Blog of Events by clicking the header.

Geo Siberia 2010 Congress and Trade Fair with ICA WG ISDE and SSGA Joint Seminar

From our daily mail. Prof Dr. Milan Konecny, Past President of ICA and Vice-President of the International Society of Digital Earth wrote earlier today:
"International Seminar on Early Warning and Crises Management (http://ssga.ru/main/geosibir.html) organized by ICA (WG Cartography on Early Warning and Crises Management), ISDE and SSGA will be held on April 28 at Geo-Siberia-2010 Congress and Trade Fair in Novosibirsk, Russia. Local contact: Argina Novitskaya; international contact: Milan Konecny .
Contemporary I would like to remind you coming events in Nessebar, Bulgaria, ... www.Cartography-GIS.com/digitalearth ..."

HUNAGI Conference on use of OSS and freely accessible spatial data in Local Governments

Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2010

Venue: Budapest
Date: 25 February, 2010

As integrated part of the full day program having working language in Hungarian, a plenary session will be devoted to share experiences and disseminate best practices from abroad by the active participation of experts from the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (EUROGI), the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the HUMBOLDT project and from Austria. In this session the working language will be English. 
To register please click on the header or on the following link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGNWSV9XX1Zya0RLZTZrNFJHRTVsX2c6MA
To see the program in Hungarian, please use the following link:

http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/HUNAGI_konferencia_program_100121.doc

Until now we have 62 registered participants. The pie chart shows their breakdown by sectors. The anticipated number of the participants is about 200. Target audience is representatives of local governments and their partner institutions and organisations.
The program in English is as follows:

Do we have to pay for everything?

Spatial data and their management with open access

Budapest, 25th February 2010

MoARD Theatre Room

Budapest V. Kossuth Lajos tér 11

9:00 – 10:00 Registration
10:00–12:00	(Spatial) informatics and tasks of the local governments Session Chair: Zsolt Barkóczi
10:00–10:05	Welcome address  Zsolt Barkóczi, President  HUNAGI
10:05–10:20	Ferenc Sirman, State Secretary MoARD
10:20–10:35	Ms. Dr. Viktória Zöld-Nagy, Deputy Director General, Department of Public Administration,  Ministry of Self Governments
10:35–10:55	Lajos Kósa Lajos, President, Federation of the Cities with County Right
10:55–11:15	Péter Borján, Mayor of Kőszárhegy, Federation of Settlement Self Governments
11:15–12:00	Discussion
	Open discussion moderated by Zsolt Barkóczi. Invited panelists includes the morning speakers and Dr. Zsuzsanna Kerekes (Director General, Office of the Ombudsman); Tamás Prajczer (GeoX Ltd., Managing director); Sándor Tóth (Deputy Director General, MoARD)
12:00 –12:50 Lunch
12:50–14:10	Best practices from abroad Session Chair: Dr. Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp
12:50-13:10	Prof. Dr. Rui Pedro Juliao, (EUROGI Executive Committee Member) – IGP experiences providing service for the local governments using opensource softwares and freely available data
13:10-13:30	Dr. Karel Charvat (HUMBOLDT project) – Open Source and Open Data Accessibility as the way to Single Information Space for Environment also at the Local Government
13:30-13:50	Ms. Athina Trakas (Open Geospatial Consortium, Director, European Services) – Integration of geospatial data with OGC standards and Open Source Software: from local government to state level
13:50-14:10	FH Prof. Dr. Gernot PAULUS (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Vice Dean, Professor) – Open Address Portal for Austria  (Crowdsourcing of Geodata – User-generated Geocontent)
14:10 – 14:30 Coffee break
14:30–15:50	Opportunities for the way ahead Session Chair: Dezső Mikus
14:30 – 14:50	Szabolcs Székács (European Commission, Informatics Directorate-General) – It is easier together! OSOR.eu: collaborative development environment and OSS project clearinghouse
14:50–15:10	Károly Szittner (Director of Secretariat, State Secretariat for Informatics, Prime Minister’s Office);
15:10–15:30	Géza Péter Juhász– János Dolleschal (CASCADOSS Hungary Society ) – Results of the CASCADOSS project
15:30–15:50	Ferenc Zaka (Founder, Openmaps project); András Kolesár (Member of the  Board, Hungarian Society of  Geocaching) –Community built spatial data in Hungary: Openmaps.eu and turistautak.hu
15:50–16:40	Open discussion
	Open discussion moderated by Géza Péter Juhász, President, CASCADOSS Hungary Society  Invited panelists include: László Buga (Managing Director, Mapping Nonprofit Ltd of the MoD); Dr. Zoltán Siki (Dept. of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics) György Husza (Managing Director, Tekiré Ltd.); Zsolt Keringer (CIO, Local Government of Szombathely) Dr. Szabolcs Mihály (General Director, FÖMI); Attila Oláh, (Managing Director, ESRI Magyarország Ltd.,); Károly Pogrányi (Managing Director, Hungarocad Ltd.,); Károly Szittner (Director of Secretariat, State Secretariat for Informatics, Prime Minister’s Office); Ferenc Takács (GIS expert Local Government of  Zalaegerszeg); Voloncs György (General Director, Varinex Ltd.)
Wrap-up

Supporting organisations: 
ESRI Hungary Ltd, HungaroCAD Ltd, Varinex Stakeholders Co., Tekiré Ltd.