Spatially Enabled Society

30th May 2012

- new publication about the role of Land Administration, Land Management and Land Governance in Spatially Enabled Societies, result of a 3 years hard efforts by the FIG Task Force chaired by Dr. Daniel Steudler, a well recognized expert from Swisstopo and member of EuroGeographics Cadastre&Land Registry KEN was launched during the FIG Working week 2012 in Rome.

The publication, compiled and edited in close cooperation with Prof. Abbas Rajabifard from the University of Melbourne, past President of GSDI Association brings closer explanation of the term Spatially Enabled Society (SES) and focuses on six basic elements which are required to realize the vision of a SES:

1. a legal framework to provide the institutional structure for data sharing, discovery, and access;

2. a sound data integration concept to ensure multi-sourced data integration and interoperability;

3. a positioning infrastructure to enable and benefit from precise positioning possibilities;

4. a spatial data infrastructure to facilitate data sharing, to reduce duplication and to link data producers, providers and value adders to data users based on a common goal of data sharing;

5. land ownership information, as the dominant issue in the interactions between government, businesses and citizens relating to land and water resources; and

6. data and information to respect certain basic principles and to increase the availability and interoperability of free to re-use spatial data from different actors and sectors.

If you are interested to learn more about this very timely topic, read the full version of the publication.