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Abbas Rajabifard Preetha Pulusani President, Greg Bentley Juergen Dold Chief Strategy Officer, GSDI Association CEO, Benltey Systems President, Hexagon Geosystems Rolta Group Shailesh Nayak Aida Opoku Mensah Prof Ian Dowman Kamal K Singh Secretary Director - ICT Division First Vice President Chairman and CEO Ministry of Earth Sciences UN Economic Commission for Africa ISPRS Rolta Group Government of India Bryn Fosburgh Mark Reichardt Vanessa Lawrence CB Vice President Jack Dangermond President and CEO Director General and CEO, Trimble President, Esri Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Ordnance Survey, UK Derek Clarke Chief Director-Survey and Mapping & National Geospatial Information Josef Strobl Matthew M O'Connell Department of Rural Development & Director, Centre for Geoinformatics, President and CEO University of Salzburg, Austria GeoEye Advisory Board Land Reform, South Africa Geospatial World I July 2012 5 7/18/2017/18/201 Citizen power to prevail n July 2004, Steve Coast, a student from the University College of London, decided that Speak the maps available from the 'authoritative source' viz, the Ordnance Survey were too r I expensive, difficult to get, not editable and held geolocation information back. He established a website openstreetmap.org and explained his philosophy at the EuroFOO o t conference in August 2004. In short, the philosophy was to have common citizens collect data i and share it over a website that would be freely accessible to other citizens. According to Tim Berners Lee, "OpenStreetMap is all about people doing their bit, creating an incredible d resource for everybody else." E What Steve did was what every student loves to do - challenge the authority, especially one that is unreasonably restrictive. What happened next is some- thing fantastic. The followers of OSM grew from a few thou- sand to hundreds of thousands and the maps grew from just the UK to cover nearly the whole world. Haiti relief efforts used OSM maps and many LBS providers turn to OSM for the latest updates. This is the basis of what is referred to as user gener- ated content, UGC or volunteered geographic information (VGI). Steve joined Microsoft in 2010 as Principal Architect of Bing Mobile and this perhaps indicates that what started as an act of rebellion has turned into a recognised activity and is turning into a commercial reality. This display of the power of citizens to work together for a geo- graphic cause is something that has upset the staid entities that fall under the rubric of national mapping organisations )NMOs). Strong attempts are being made to include VGI into authoritative information. NMOs are wrestling with accuracy and reliability versus the need for speed in data acquisition and delivery. Standards are evolving to address many of these Prof. Arup Dasgupta issues but regulatory issues remain. Will the data remain free Managing Editor after it is assimilated into authoritative collections in the pub- [email protected] lic and private domains? Will the data be free of unreasonable restrictions of access and use? We don't know yet but what we do know is that geospatial world is undergoing a revolution - perhaps unintended - where citizens are finding new ways of doing old things as well as new applications using the technology that has become accessible to them. This revolution is shaking the foundation of geospatial data acquisition, applications and dissemination of infor- mation. Business opportunities abound for established firms as well as for new start-ups. Governments need to harness this power for good governance. The slow moving world of law has to learn to adjust and adapt to these new developments. Will citizen power prevail? I think it will because they have woken up to the fact that geographical information is the leitmotif of human existence and therefore they are the main stakeholders. Geospatial World I July 2012 7 NEWS lion for the development of Nasarawa use planning and preparation of dis- State Geographic Information System trict land use plans and connecting (NAGIS). It will be developed as per districts to the country's land admin- the World Bank standards. The istration information system. NAGIS aims to phase out the obso- NIGERIA lete data storage system and man- agement. Sonny Agassi, commission- KENYA Maps to address er in-charge of the ministry, said, "We want to upgrade land adminis- UNESCO maps disaster issue tration in the state by digitising land Surveyor-General has been asked to records. NAGIS will be a one-stop groundwater map geographical landscape of the shop for all land use data in the The United Nations Educational, country to address disaster issue, state." Scientific and Cultural Organization informed Arc. Muhammad Namadi (UNESCO) launched 'Groundwater Sambo, Vice President of Nigeria, Resources Investigation for Drought during 47th Annual General Meeting RWANDA mitigation in Africa' project in of the Institution of Surveyors in Nairobi. Ilorin. During the Meeting, the Presi- Ministry seeks funds The project is supported by the US dent of the Institute, Yakubu Maikano, Government and Japan International observed that the country needs a for land management Cooperation Agency (JICA). It aims to National Mapping Policy that would The Ministry of Environment and Nat- provide assured water supply in sustain the production of maps in the ural Resources