Erős kritika illette az amerikai szövetségi térinformatikai beruházások koordinálatlanságát

Mai postánkból! Kate Lance írja a GSDI Legal & Socioecon Committee levelező fórumán.
(HUNAGI javasolja az érdeklődők számára a levelező címjegyzékére a felíratkozást, ennek adatai alul találhatóak.)
' http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-94

"OMB and Agencies Need to Make Coordination a Priority to Reduce Duplication

GAO-13-94, Nov 26, 2012

View report: http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/650293.pdf

While the President and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) have established policies and procedures for coordinating investments in geospatial data, government-wide committees and federal departments and agencies have not effectively implemented them. The committee that was established to promote the coordination of geospatial data nationwide--the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)--has developed and endorsed key standards-- including a metadata standard that includes descriptive information about a particular set of geospatial data--and established a clearinghouse of metadata; however, the clearinghouse is not being used by agencies to identify planned geospatial investments to promote coordination and reduce duplication. The FGDC has not yet planned or implemented an approach to manage geospatial data as related groups of investments to allow agencies to more effectively plan geospatial data collection efforts and minimize duplicative investments; and its strategic plan is missing key elements, such as performance measures for many of its defined objectives. Further, none of the three federal departments in GAO's review have fully implemented important activities for coordinating geospatial data, such as preparing and implementing a strategy for advancing geospatial activities within their respective departments.

Further, the three agencies in GAO's review responsible for government-wide management of specific geospatial data have implemented some but not all important activities for coordinating the national coverage of specific geospatial data. For example, only one agency has developed a plan for the nationwide population of the datasets under its responsibility, and none of the agencies have developed a plan to develop standards that facilitate the collection and sharing of geospatial data. Finally, while OMB has oversight responsibilities for geospatial data, OMB staff members acknowledged that OMB does not have complete and reliable information to identify potentially duplicative geospatial investments.

FGDC, federal departments and agencies, and OMB have not yet fully implemented policies and procedures for coordinating geospatial investments because these efforts have not been a priority. As a result, efforts to acquire data are uncoordinated and the federal government is acquiring duplicative geospatial data. For example, three agencies are independently acquiring road data, which is reported to have resulted in millions of wasted taxpayers' dollars. Unless OMB, the FGDC, and federal departments and agencies decide that coordinating geospatial investments is a priority, this situation will likely continue.

Why GAO Did This Study

The federal government collects, maintains, and uses geospatial information--information linked to specific geographic locations--to support many functions, including national security and disaster response. In 2012, the Department of the Interior (Interior) estimated that the federal government invests billions of dollars on geospatial data annually, and that duplication is common. GAO was asked to determine the extent to which the federal government has established and effectively implemented policies and procedures for coordinating its geospatial investments and avoiding duplication. To do so, GAO focused on FGDC coordination activities; efforts within the departments of Commerce, the Interior, and Transportation; and OMB oversight. GAO reviewed FGDC and department documentation, such as policies, procedures, and strategic plans; OMB guidance and an executive order; and reports concerning duplicative investments.

What GAO Recommends

GAO is making recommendations aimed at improving coordination and reducing duplication, to include FGDC developing a national strategy for coordinating geospatial investments; federal agencies following federal guidance for managing geospatial investments; and OMB developing a mechanism to identify and report on geospatial investments. Two agencies and OMB generally agreed with GAO's recommendations and one agency neither agreed nor disagreed.

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Személyiségi jogok és a globális változás

Mai postánkból. Roger Longhorn továbbította az EDRI tárgybeli hírlevelét.
"6. Privacy rights as a global challenge
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With more than 100 on-site participants and almost 4000 remote attendees
through the live webcast, the 2012 Public Voice Conference was, this
year again, a full success. The 2012 edition was held on 22 October 2012
in Punta del Este, Uruguay, in conjunction with the 34th International
Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.

Civil society groups, privacy advocates, data protection and privacy
officials, technology experts and other professionals from different
countries and regions gathered to discuss “Privacy Rights as a Global
Challenge”, including current hot topics such as:
- international approaches to consumer privacy rights enforcement;
- preserving civic participation in public affairs through open
government and citizen engagement;
- cross cultural views on privacy, freedom of expression
and human rights on data collection, retention and use, where EDRi
observer Gus Hosein and EDRi member Meryem Marzouki took part.
Specific panels were also dedicated to identifying the next challenges
for digital privacy protection, taking the global temperature on
consumer and privacy protection and examining the relative merits and
flaws of legislations versus self regulations.

As usual, The Public Voice Conference Program Committee took care of
highlighting the regional situation taking into account the venue’s
country, while assessing at the same time global developments. A
specific panel, moderated by EDRi observer Cedric Laurant, on “Adoption
and Implementation of Latin America's Consumer and Privacy Protection
Laws” was dedicated to the former issue. The latter took the form of a
panel, moderated by EDRi member Meryem Marzouki, which assessed the 2009
Madrid Civil Society Privacy Declaration on “Global Privacy Standards
for a Global World” with regards to recent developments worldwide,
namely the mechanisms currently under consideration by the European
Union (with the new data protection framework proposal), the Asian
Pacific Economic Cooperation (with the implementation of the APEC
Privacy Framework), the Council of Europe (modernization of the CoE
Convention 108), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (revision of the OECD Privacy Guidelines), and the United
States as well (with the US White House plan for a Consumer privacy Bill
of Rights).

The Public Voice Conference is a main project of The Public Voice
Coalition, an international coalition of NGOs and civil society groups
established by the Electronic Privacy and Information Center (EPIC)
since 1996 to promote public participation in decisions concerning the
future of the Internet. Numerous EDRi members and observers are part of
this global coalition, of which EDRi itself is an active member.

Other EDRi members and observers also took part in the following event:
the 34th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy
Commissioner.

Javier Ruiz Diaz from EDRi member Open Rights Group (UK) participated in
the Open Data & Privacy panel, where he highlighted some of the
problematic issues ORG has learned from UK experience on open data,
criticising the widespread belief that anonymisation is the easy
solution for open data and privacy. He also highlighted that
anonymisation needs open peer review and responsible disclosure.

Bogdan Manolea from EDRi member ApTI (Romania) represented EDRi at the
"Privacy and Piracy" panel where he focused on the challenges to privacy
of Intellectual Property Enforcement measures and reminded that
ACTA will not be the last attempt to privatise online enforcement in
Europe. He also took the opportunity to highlight EDRi's work on the
guide to the EU Date Protection Regulation available at
Protectmydata.eu.

EDRi Observer Gus Hosein, took part in the panel focused on the privacy
implications of biometric data. He underlined that these days the
biometric technology is being used extensively in the developing world
by governments and relief agencies, including in refugee camps and for
voter registration purposes.

Next year, The Public Voice Conference will come to Europe, in
conjunction with the 35th International Data Protection and Privacy
Commissioners conference, to be held on 24-27 September 2013 in Warsaw,
Poland.

2012 Public Voice Conference (with webcast of the meeting) (22.10.2012)
http://thepublicvoice.org/events/uruguay12/

The 2012 Public Voice Conference “Storifyed”
http://storify.com/meryemmarzouki/tpv12-storifyed-the-public-voice-conference-22-oc

"The Public Voice" - data protection is a civil right (Peter Schaar’s Blog)
http://www.bfdi.bund.de/EN/PublicRelations/SpeechesAndInterviews/blog/PublicVoice.html

Privacy Officials, Advocates Attend Uruguay Public Voice Conference
(EPIC Alert, 26.10.2012)
http://epic.org/alert/epic_alert_1920.html

2012 Public Voice Conference Resources and Documents
http://thepublicvoice.org/events/uruguay12/#resources

The 2009 Madrid Civil Society Privacy Declaration: “Global Privacy
Standards for a Global World” (03.11.2009)
http://thepublicvoice.org/madrid-declaration/

34th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy
Commissioners (23-24.10.2012)
http://www.privacyconference2012.org/

ORG: Response to the ICO consultation on the draft anonymisation code of
practice (28.09.2012)
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/response-to-the-ico-consultation-on-the-draft-anonymisation-code-of-practice

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LAPSI eredmények végső áttekintése Brüsszelben

Dr. Cristiana Sappa a LAPSI és EVPSI projektek menedzsere (LAPSI, www.lapsi-project.eu, EVPSI, www.evpsi.org) a Torino Law School és a Nexa Center for Internet and Society, http://nexa.polito.it munkatársa mai tájékoztatása szerint az Európai Bizottságnál november 15-én tekintik át a program eredményeit. A végső projektértékelő találkozón a LAPSI projekt et képviselők lesznek jelen. Október 25-ig a HUNAGI LAPSI csapat részéről javaslat tehető a kialakítandó napirenddel kapcsolatosan. Ezen a találkozón HUNAGI nem tervezi részvételét.
A projekt minden munkarésze időben le lett adva, ami a projektvezetés érdeme de a közreműködő konzorciumi tagok együttműködését is minősíti.

 

A magánélet és szabadság az OECD mai technológiai előretekintő fórumán

Postánkból. Az elmúlt héten, távollétemben érkezett meg Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze úrnak, az OECD információs gazdaság/politika elemzőjének levele a Big Data témakörben, melynek alábbi bekezdése egy mai eseményre hívja fel a figyelmet:

"You may also be interested in the 2012 Technology Foresight Forum, which will take place in 22 October 2012 in Paris and will focus on data analytics for harnessing the socio-economic value of data and their impacts on fundamental values such as privacy and freedom. You will find more information about the Foresight Forum (including the agenda) under http://oe.cd/tff2012.

Please let us know if you would like to join the Forum, or if you have any questions regarding our work on big data."

Bár a hír a csata után érkezett az egyhetes Internet-távollétem miatt, a Fórum témája és eredménye  érdekes lehet a LAPSI  2.0 szempontjából is.

e-Kormányzat hatásvizsgálat Dániában

Roger Longhorn írja az SDI internetes magazinban:

" Concerning Benefits of eGovernment data to society/economy, see the latest news from Denmark.
http://www.sdimag.com/1280/Denmark-Releases-Its-Digital-Raw-Material-Including-Geospatial-Data.html
The full report can be downloaded from the links in the article.
The financial benefits are also outlined in their brief 3-page 'Basic Data Fact Sheet' ..:.
/Extract on Benefits from “Basic Data Fact Sheet” Danish Min. of Finance, 8 October 2012
/*Financial benefits from open basic data*Once the initiative has been completely phased in, in 2020, there are expected savings for the public sector of about DKK 250 million per year (35 million euro / 43 million USD) as a result of lower administration costs"

Térinformáció - etika - GI tudomány

A GSDI jogi és szocioökonomiai bizottsága levelezésében most érkezett dr. Rodolphe Devillerstől:

"Call for papers, AAG 2013, Los Angeles, CA (April 9-13)

http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/aag_ethics13.html 

"Geographic Information Ethics and GIScience"

Following successful sessions at the 2009-2011 AAG meetings on ethics and GIScience, we are organizing sessions to continue and expand discussions of this important topic. Ethical engagements with the multitude of GIS applications and uses, whether surreptitious or overt, have marked recent developments in the field. Indeed, the variety ofapplications of geographic information science & technology (GIS&T) has led the U.S. Department of Labor to highlight geospatial/geospatial technologies as the third largest high-growth job field for the 21^st century.While the potential benefits and risks of geographic technologies are becoming well known, the session provides a forum to engage ethical issues. For instance:

• geographic technologies are surveillance technologies. The data they produce may be used to invade the privacy, and even the autonomy, of individuals and groups;
• data gathered using geographic technologies are used to make policy decisions. Erroneous, inadequately documented, or inappropriate data can have grave consequences for individuals and the environment;
• geographic technologies have the potential to exacerbate inequities in society, insofar as large organizations enjoy greater access to technology, data, and technological expertise than smaller organizations and individuals;
• georeferenced photos, tweets and volunteered (and unvolunteered) geographic information can reveal private information. Thosedata that are increasingly publically available and used to study societal phenomena raise significant privacy concerns.

Papers in this session engaged with the above issues in relationship to GIScience, including such topics as:

• case studies, curriculum development, or the pedagogy of teaching GIS ethical issues;
• issues of privacy, surveillance, inequity, erroneous or inappropriate data concerning geographic technologies;
• codes of ethics and conduct of professional organizations;
• GIS professional development;
• reflections on the changing nature of ethical issues in GIS&T.

These sessions are co-sponsored by the AAG GI Systems & Science and Ethics, Justice, and Human Rights Specialty Groups.

To participate:

1. Please register for the AAG 2013 meeting and submit your abstract online following the AAG Guidelines (www.aag.or/cs/anualmeeting/call_for_papers);
2. Please send your paper title, PIN, and abstract no later than Wednesday, October 20 to Rodolphe Devillers rdeville@mun.ca, Francis Harvey fharvey@umn.edu, or Dawn Wright dwright@esri.com

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Associate Professor

Department of Geography

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John's (NL) A1B 3X9

Canada

Tel: +1 (709) 864-8412

Fax: +1 (709) 864-3119

Email: rdeville@mun.ca

Web pages: http://www.marinegis.com

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Digitális Föld: az elképzeléstől a gyakorlatig: értelmet adni a közösségi adatgyűjtésnek

Mai postánkból. Kate Lance PhD (Yale Egyetem)  hívja fel a figyelmet az IJDE alábbi szakcikkére. Hazai eredményeknek az IJDE-ben való publikálását szorgalmazta a HUNAGI felhívása a múlt heti Fény-Tér-Kép Konferencián is.
"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2012.712273

Digital Earth from vision to practice: making sense of citizen-generated content

International Journal of Digital Earth
Volume 5, Issue 5, 2012

Abstract
The vision of Digital Earth (DE) put recently forward under the auspices of the International Society for DE extends the paradigm of spatial data infrastructures by advocating an interactive and dynamic framework based on near-to-real time information from sensors and citizens. This paper contributes to developing that vision and reports the results of a two-year research project exploring the extent to which it is possible to extract information useful for policy and science from the large volumes of messages and photos being posted daily through social networks. Given the noted concerns about the quality of such data in relation to that provided by authoritative sources, the research has developed a semi-automatic workflow to assess the fitness for purpose of data extracted from Twitter and Flickr, and compared them to that coming from official sources, using forest fires as a case study. The findings indicate that we were able to detect accurately six of eight major fires in France in the summer of 2011, with another four detected by the social networks but not reported by our official source, the European Forest Fire Information Service. These findings and the lessons learned in handling the very large volumes of unstructured data in multiple languages discussed in this study provide useful insights into the value of social network data for policy and science, and contribute to advancing the vision of DE.

Keywords: Digital Earth, social networks, volunteered geographic information, data quality

 

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