New GSDI President Elected13/05/2008 |
| The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) Board of Directors has elected Professor Bas Kok as President of the Association. Professor Kok replaces Jarmo Ratia of Finland who served as GSDI President for the previous term. |
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Bas Kok has been active for many years in the global movement on spatial data infrastructures and the crucial role of SDIs to support intra and inter-governmental data sharing. He participated in the very first global GSDI conference in 1996 and has been actively involved ever since, serving most recently as a co-chair of the GSDI Legal and Economic Issues Working Group from 2000 through 2007.
The GSDI Association mission focuses predominantly on awareness building and capacity building. It plays a vital role in global knowledge exchange by supporting open communications among interested parties across the globe through a variety of mechanisms. GSDI has earned its role as a locus for knowledge exchange due to the successes that its members have made in the introduction and implementation of SDI's, which lead to innovations and better performance in governments.
The GSDI Association is an inclusive group of organizations, agencies, firms, and individuals from around the world. The purpose of the organization is to promote international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national and international spatial data infrastructure developments that will allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues of pressing importance. Supplier: Open Geospatial ConsortiumMore news from this supplier: OGC Call for Participation in OWS-6 Testbed PCI Geomatics OGC Principal Plus Member OGC Elects Two New Board Members GEO Call for Participation in GEOSSPilot OGC Seeks Input on Next Version of GML OGC and WfMC Partner to Advance Standards Goals OGC Approves KML as Open Standard OGC and OASIS Announce Progress on StandardsCooperation David Schell, OGC Chair, NGA Committee Astrium Takes Principal Membership OGC Autodesk Announces New Products Map Suite 3.0 Services Edition Beta 1 RapidEye Contest to Name Satellites OGC Call for Participation in OWS-6 Testbed Real-Time Web Forecasting Infotech Enterprises and Dassault Aviation Agreement LizardTech Express Server 6.1 Software Maps Rwandan Health Intrinsyc and NAVTEQ Sign Map Distribution Deal PCI Geomatics OGC Principal Plus Member Comments (0): |

