Geospatial Information, collaborative value-added chain.
Spanish experience – Dr Antonio Arozarena Villar, Deputy Director,
Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Spain

Neil Ackroyd

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KIM Kyoung Soo

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Dr Antonio Arozarena Villar

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Capacity building

Chair: Dr Chukwudozie Ezigbalike,
Secretariat, African Centre for Statistics, United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa

Contributors:

Bringing new pieces in the “geography jigsaw” together: are developing
countries building the appropriate capacity? – Dr Neil Stuart,
Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh

Željko Obradovic, Company Director, Federal Geodetic Administration,
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Capacity Building - experiences in Africa, Professor Fraser Taylor, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Canada

Volunteer geographic information

Chair: Mark Corey, Assistant Deputy Minister, Earth Sciences,
Natural Resources Canada

Contributors:

Balancing Opportunities and Perspectives – User Content and
National Mapping Agencies – Dr David Coleman, Dean of Engineering,
University of New Brunswick

Open Source Geospatial trends in government and NMA’s –
Dr Suchith Anand, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham

Managing Megacities with Urban Sensing – Robin McLaren,
Director, Know Edge

Maximum mapping minimum investment

Chair: Greg Scott, Group Leader, National Mapping
Information Group, Geoscience Australia

Contributors:

National Topographic Information Coordination Initiative (NTICI) – Greg Scott,
Group Leader, National Mapping Information Group, Geoscience Australia

Maximum Mapping: Minimum Investment: A Canadian federal
perspective – Prashant Shukle,Director General,
Mapping Information Branch, Natural Resources Canada

OSi, Spatially enabling the Irish Economy – Geraldine Ruane,
CEO, Ordnance Survey, Ireland

Spatially enabled government/societies

Chair: Magnús Guðmundsson, Managing Director,
National Land Survey of Iceland

Contributors:

Commonwealth Spatial Data Integration (CSDI) – Greg Scott, President,
UN Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia

SEG Services: working progress on the guidelines for Africa –
Dr Chukwudozie Ezigbalike, Secretariat, African Centre for Statistics,
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

EuroGeographics: role, activities and goals - Dave Lovell OBE,
CEO EuroGeographics

Moving towards a spatial dimension in e-government – charging policies
and user requirements in a Danish perspective – Kim Lindskov Knudsen,
Head of Division Deployment and Advisory Services, Danish Ministry Of
The Environment National Survey and Cadastre

Greg Scott

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Dr Chukwudozie Ezigbalike

The use of GI in response to man-made
and natural disasters

Chair: Ian Holt, MapAction

Humanitarian Disasters: Emergency Mapping – The workshop will look at
MapAction in action, and explore some of the GIS challenges you are faced
with during disasters

About MapAction

When disaster strikes, getting relief help to the right places quickly hinges on
rapid transfer of information. MapAction delivers that vital information in the
form of maps, created and distributed in the field. By conveying a
‘shared operational picture’, their maps make a crucial difference in
delivering humanitarian aid to the right place to relieve suffering.

Ian Holt

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Research and innovation

Chair: Peter ter Haar, Director of Products, Ordnance Survey

Contributors:

Research, Innovation and Sensing: An Imagecentric technology
perspective – Dr Robert Moses, CEO and President, PCI Geomatics

Strategy and Technologies to build a smarter Planet together – Margarete
Donovang-Kuhlisch, European Government Industry Technical Leader,
IBM Sales and Distribution, Public Sector

Local to global geographic platforms – Tim Warr,
Mapping Technology Specialist, Microsoft

Dr Robert Moses

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Margarete
Donovang-Kuhlisch

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Tim Warr

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Land information convergence

Chair: John Wright, Chief Information Office, Land Registry

Contributors:

New Zealand’s Landonline – Colin MacDonald, Chief Executive
Land Information New Zealand

Land Information Convergence in the Czech Republic, Karel Vecere,
President, Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre

The Romanian approach to cadastre and land registration activities –
Marcel Grigore, Deputy General Director, National Agency for Cadastre
and Land Registration, Romania

Panel Session

Summary of Conference Actions
and Resolutions

Vanessa Lawrence CB, Director General and Chief Executive
Ordnance Survey, Conference Chair

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