Az Európai Távérzékelési Vállalkozások Társulásának tanulmánya a Sentinel adatok nyílt és szabad adatpolitikájának gazdasági hasznáról

Kate Lance PhD, Yale írja mai levelében_

"http://www.force11.org/sites/default/files/attachments/EARSC-Study_GMES-Open-Data-Policy_Final-Report_Dec-2012.pdf
EARSC Open data study - Final Report
About GMES and Data: Geese and Golden Eggs: A Study on the Economic Benefits of a Free and Open Data Policy for GMES Sentinels Data

The European Commission has been working with the European Space Agency (ESA) to establish a system of satellites – the Sentinels – to provide Earth Observation (EO) imagery from around the world. This data will be used to provide
information services in support of public policy notably for the environment and security. Hence theacronym GMES – Global Monitoring for Environment and Security.
For a long time it was assumed that the data delivered from GMES would be free to public policymakers, but not for other users. Increasingly, a number of stakeholders, most notably ESA, have argued that it would be more effective to offer this data free of charge to all users. The European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) supports this policy as offering the best way to help the emergent EO services industry to develop and indeed to establish itself as a world leader.
Since many governments, especially at the European level, favour the move to free and open policies for all types of government-collected data, it would seem logical to apply this policy to GMES data. In this study, the authors start to bring together the arguments and ideas from the work on PSI re-use and the issues and needs for exploiting GMES.

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The Economics and the Commons Conference (ECC)

Kate Lance PhD (Yale) írja a GSDI LSE vitafórumára írja:
" http://p2pfoundation.net/ECC2013

The Economics of the Commons Conference (ECC)

22-24 May 2013

Berlin, Germany

 

ECONOMICS AND THE COMMON(S): FROM SEED FORM TO CORE PARADIGM seeks to open up some new vistas in politics, economics and culture by exploring the commons as an alternative worldview and provisioning system. A rich array of commons – in nature, cities, civic life, the Internet, and many other realms – are showing that commons can provide stable, equitable and ecologically benign alternatives to conventional markets. The Economics and the Commons Conference (ECC) will expand and empower this work by exploring the commons as a coherent field of inquiry and action. It will convene approximately 240 commoners -- researchers, practitioners and advocates from around the world -- to explore the relationship of conventional economics and the commons, showcase key actors and initiatives, and devise plans for moving the commons paradigm forward. Special care will be taken to avoid a “sectoralization” of commons discussion because the organizers believe that a coherent “general narrative” of the commons nurtures global social change and applies across many different sectors of commoning. 

Substantive discussion at the conference will focus on several key themes:
-The commons as a way to move beyond conventional economics;
- Alternative economic and provisioning models;
- The transformations needed to move to a new type of economy. 

Among the questions to be asked: What core principles of commoning can be identified across different resource domains? What makes a commons so generative? In what circumstances can commons-based provisioning models substitute for conventional markets, or interact constructively with markets? How can the protection and re-creation of the commons be made an integrated part of productive processes?

The Economics and the Commons Conference (ECC) will be hosted by the Heinrich Böll Foundation (hbf) in cooperation with the Commons Strategies Group, The Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation and Remix the Commons. Optional side-events on topics such as communications strategies for the commons, governance of global commons, and others, will be held on May 21-22 and 25. 

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:A PSI irányelv módosítási javaslatának COREPER szövege

Mai postánkból. Simon Vrecar az EUROGI Lapsi projektfelelőse írja üzenetében Trough the LAPSI2.0 project we received the official version of the COREPER text of Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/98/EC on re-use of public sector information   http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/13/st08/st08469-ad01.en13.pdf   which has been published in the Council Register.   Best regards Simon Vrečar   ============================================ ZAVOD CEKTRA - Centre for Knowledge Transfer Slovenska 21 SI - 2000 Maribor SLOVENIA   tel: +386 590 33 9 33 fax: +386 590 33 9 33 mob: +386 41 69 35 37 ema: simon.vrecar@cektra.org web: http://www.cektra.org fbo: http://www.facebook.com/Cektra twi: http://twitter.com/cektra ============================================  "

Landsat és Sentinel összehangolt adatpolitikája

A napokban jelent meg a HUNAGI Naplóban a Landsat 8 és a Sentinel 2 együttműködése az LDCM műhold felbocsátása kapcsán. Mai postánkban: Roger Longhorn adta közre a GSDI LSE szakbizottság fórumán a Landsat 8 (NASA/USGS) és a Sentinel 2 (ESA/Astrium) adatpolitikájáról az alábbi hírt. A Landsat adatok korábbi ingyenessé tételével nagyságrendekkel nőtt az adatlehívások száma nem csak a kormányzati szervek, de az ipar is hasznát vette.
" FYI ref Landsat Business model:
NASA's Lawrence Fridl on the Landsat Business Model: "The open data sharing policy is a foundation of the Landsat business model. In 2008 USGS made all, now, 3.7 million satellite images freely available to the public. Besides following a use-taxpayers-money-only-once principle, it was believed that the increased accessibility would inspire more innovative projects both publicly and privately. And the use of Landsat data exploded. From some 25000 downlinks pr year to 3 million downlinks! In some ways it is similar to the freemium business model. It works. Although the largest user group are governmental improving services within homeland security, water management etc, there are some major enterprises to be found as well. Google is one of the most prominent users of Landsat data but we have also seen innovations like ESRI's ChangeMatters [http://changematters.esri.com/compare]."
Lawrence Fridl is one of the GEO community's ambassadors for showing the socio-economic benefits from Earth observations.
Extract above is from the online article by Bebte Lilja Bye of Science 2.0 (www.science20.com) at:
http://www.science20.com/planetbye/landsat_8_satellite_launch_saving_and_making_money_earth_observations-103358?goback=.gde_4538983_member_213289258

It is equally interesting to see the recent joint announcement from NASA/USGS and ESA on closer collaboration between Landsat 8 and the ESA Sentinel missions. Sentinel's data policy is belowfrom a presentation made by the European Space Agency at a workshop in January 2012:
Sentinel Data Policy = full and open access to Sentinel data to all users
• Aim for maximum availability of data & corresponding access services
• Support to increasing demand of EO data for  climate change initiatives  implementation of environmental policies In practical terms
• Anybody can (has the right to) access acquired Sentinel data
• Licenses for the Sentinel data are free of charge
• Online access with users registration including acceptation of generic T&C

Well done, ESA!" - írta Roger Longhorn a GSDI Outreach and Communication szakbizottság társelnöke

Már csak egy hét az ePSIplatform varsói konferenciája

Mai postánkból. Ton Zijlstra az ePSIplatform közösségi pásztora írja:

"We are just over a week away from the ePSIplatform 2013 Conference in Warsaw. With over 300 participants and 40 speakers from 30 countries, the event will be a key open government data community meet-up this year! The Conference will be preceded by a workshop on the value of open government data to the public sector itself, and followed by international Open Data Day. Together with our partners Centrum Cyfrowe and the Cyber Law group of the University of Warsaw, we are eager to welcome all participants to Warsaw the coming week! See the exciting program we have prepared: http://epsiplatform.eu/content/conference-program
At the ePSIplatform you will find the European PSI Scoreboard. It shows the state of open government data across the EU, and does not just look at legislation or government actions, but also takes into account community activity and uptake. We are expressly inviting your feedback on the collected scores. And of course, the underlying data is available for download! See http://epsiplatform.eu/content/european-psi-scoreboard

Powered by INSPIRE is taking place in Brussels on 4 and 5 March. INSPIRE is the European effort to harmonize geodata across the EU, so it can be used in the EU single market.
Stakeholders from across Europe, but mainly UK, Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands will gather for two days. Interpreters will be present. See http://www.poweredbyinspire.eu/ for program and free registration."

A Google számára készült idei Oxera jelentés 150-270 milliárd dollárra becsüli a geoinformációs szolgáltatások piacát.

Postánkból. Kate Lance írja a GSDI L-S levelező fórumán:

"http://www.oxera.com/News---Events/News/January-2013/Oxera-quantifies-the-benefits-of-Geo-services-to-g.aspx

Report: Benefits of Geo services to global consumers (Oxera, January 2013)

Google has published an Oxera report that estimates the revenues from global Geo services at $150 billion to $270 billion per year. For context, these findings suggest that this growing industry is already larger than estimates of the size of the video game industry, and generates around one-third of the annual revenue generated by the airline industry. 

This study is one of the first to consider Geo services as an industry in itself, encompassing all digital mapping and location-based services. Use of such services is increasing rapidly, with applications of the technology ranging from electronic maps that are accessible online and via smartphones, to satellite navigation and imaging, and location-based searching. 

This study aims to quantify the impact of Geo services on the world economy and consumer welfare. For the purposes of the study, this impact has been divided into three broad categories:
– direct effects—the footprint of the Geo services measured according to the revenue generated by firms developing and providing Geo services and the value that they add;
– consumer effects—the benefits that accrue to consumers, businesses and government from using Geo services, over and above the value that may be paid for any services (ie, the revenue accounted for under the direct effects category); and
– wider economic effects—the benefits that accrue from Geo services improving efficiency elsewhere in the economy, by creating new products and services and creating cost savings that cannot be generated by other sectors."

HUNAGI ajánlja minden érdeklődő számára a felíratkozást a fórumra, melynek elérhetősége és a leíratkozási címe:
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Izlandon 2013. január 23. óta ingyenesek az állami digitális térképek és földrajzi adatok

Dr. Kate Lance osztotta meg az izlandi bejelentést a GSDI Jogi és szociógazdasági szakbizottsága levelező listáján. Érdemes a bejelentés indoklási részét is figyelmesen olvasni.

"http://www.eurogeographics.org/news/congratulations-iceland-who-will-follow

Iceland: National Land Survey making digital cartography free of charge

As of 23 January 2013, digital maps and Spatial Data held by the National Land Survey of Iceland (NLSI) have been made free of charge, as determined by Svandís Svavarsdóttir Environment and Natural Resources Minister. The data is used in various projects of state agencies such as registration, planning, nature conservation, natural hazards, energy, research and public projects, but they also benefit the public and businesses in various ways.
The purpose of making digital maps and Spatial Data free of charge is to ensure that the general public in Iceland is guaranteed easy access to authoritative information about the environment and nature of Iceland. The goal is also to encourage increased use, processing and dissemination of this data, for example in the field of tourism, public administration and education.
Magnús Guðmundsson, Director General of National Land Survey of Iceland said: "This is a great day for Iceland, and for NLSI. The authoritative information that we painstakingly collect and process is now available to more people who will put it to new and exciting uses. We are fortunate to have a beautiful and unique landscape in Iceland, NLSI is proud and priveledged to have responsibility for recording every detail of it. Now more people will benefit from what we do!"

NLSI map data is available for download on their website, http://www.lmi.is/ without charge.

See also: NLSI making digital cartography and geographic information free

http://www.lmi.is/stafraen-kort-og-landupplysingar-lmi-gerd-gjaldfrjals"