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oa Providing an Educational Component for the Development of the National Geospatial Data Infrastructure
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, International Conference of Young Professionals «GeoTerrace-2023», Oct 2023, Volume 2023, p.1 - 5
Abstract
The current level of geographic information systems allows for the creation of interoperable geospatial data for the purpose of making management decisions by the authorities. Public authorities are mostly data owners. The data owners must be competent customers and understand what geospatial data they need to order from the producer, how to organize this process and what requirements they need to consider. In order to ensure that civil servants have adequate knowledge of NSDI development, a training program on the Basics of Creating Interoperable Geospatial Data was developed, and training courses were organized and conducted for more than 60 central and territorial executive authorities. This article describes the implementation of the educational component of NSDI for state servants through special certified training programs. This project was supported by the USAID Agricultural and Rural Development Program (AGRO). All developed training lecture materials are publicly available on the Internet.