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DS Direct Aiming Station Topcon Positioning Middle East and Africa FZE E-mail : [email protected] Website : www.topconpositioningmea.com From the Editor’s Desk Democratising SDIs, Empowering Citizens Prof Arup Dasgupta Managing Editor [email protected] hile going through the articles on SDI their own interest, and in the interest of maintaining a in this issue I was struck by the im- responsive and equitable democracy”. Those countries mense contribution of two entities that that seek to restrict data access in the name of security have shaped SDI. Max Craglia of the need to heed this reasoning because open government European Commission’s INSPIRE in- that embraces transparency in decision making is the Witiative hit it bang on when he termed SDI as the child hallmark of democracy. of the Internet. Indeed, global access to data would not Involvement of citizens in SDI is not only as seek- have been possible without it. The second is the Open ers of information but also as providers of information. Geospatial Consortium (OGC), whose championing of The use of volunteered geospatial information from open data systems and adoption of Internet capabil- neogeographers and others must be encouraged and ities through its Web Services Standards to enable used as a valid data source for SDIs. There must be data discovery, binding and operations has introduced more Google Mapathon type of efforts. When it comes a quiet revolution which helped make SDI a reality. to planning development decisions, the views of the Both entities share many common traits like openness; stakeholders must be included, and this necessarily both are driven by volunteers; both rely on consensus comes from the bottom of the pyramid and not the top. and both choose to follow a golden mean eschewing Citizen involvement and transparent government can controversy as far as possible. become more than buzzwords if the SDIs truly begin Openness is a virtue that all SDIs should embrace to serve citizens. with respect to data. Many have held that data for Another buzz acronym is PPP. Governments mouth public good must be free of cost and easily available. this as they involve industry in realising SDI, though Government-collected data should be available at in reality it is nothing more than the age-old tendering the cost of media because the cost of collection has model. Undoubtedly, SDI efforts by governments are already been paid for by the citizens. Derek Clarke lucrative business opportunities for the geospatial of NGI, South Africa, opines that pricing data for industry but the real money is in serving