PolKEN Webinar: Briefing on European Strategy for Data

The “European strategy for data”, published by the European Commission on 19^th February 2020, is a key proposal which sets out a range of policy measures, digital solutions, and funding programmes to encourage data sharing and re-use of data across Europe by establishing European data spaces.

Eurogeographics provided a briefing on this important paper and encouraged an exchange of views and explained how we might respond.

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Agenda:

Welcome and introduction	Mick Cory, PolKEN Chair
European strategy for data	Marjana Zelic, PolKEN Secretary
Next Steps	Mick Cory, PolKEN Chair
Q & A	Mick Cory, PolKEN Chair

PolKEN webinar on High Value Datasets

DG CNECT have circulated a message to the members of PSI Group and of the Open Data Committee assigned by Member States asking them to identify, and communicate back by 2 December 2019, those datasets that are already considered (based on the available evidence or experience) as High Value Datasets in the themes indicated in the Annex to the Directive, namely: Geospatial; Earth Observation and environment and Meteorological.

The webinar held on 30 October 2019 enabled our members to exchange knowledge on their approach to this matter.

Agenda of the meeting:

Welcome; Introduction & purpose of the meeting
Update – from EuroGeographics. Presentation is available here.
Round table - update from participants and views on: “to what extent do members want EG to coordinate a combined position on HVD to the Commission”. Summary of the round table discussion is available here.
Conclusion and next steps.

If you have further queries please do not hesitate to contact marjana.zelic@eurogeographics.org

PolKEN webinar on INSPIRE

INSPIRE MIG

Following the meeting of the INSPIRE Committee and the MIG-P group, held by the European Commission, Policy KEN has held a dedicated webinar in order to update the members of EuroGeographics on the latest developments and outcomes of the proceedings.

The webinar took place on the 7^th of December and attended by 22 participants.

Ewa Surma – Polish INSPIRE National Contact Point and PolKEN’s rapporteur on Commission activities relating to implementation of INSPIRE legislation, monitoring and reporting on the SDI as well as related issues, presented following topics that were discussed at the meeting, including:

·        Changes and revision of Monitoring and Reporting Decision
·        Possible revision of the Implementing rules on data interoperability
·        Need for spatial data at the Eu level
·        Proposal on core datasets
·        Sharing INSPIRE data and services
·        Data-service linking in INSPIRE

For details please see the presentation or the recording of the webinar:

Presentation - MIGPupdatePolKen12 2018ES

Recording - click here

PolKEN Autumn 2015 Meeting

12 participants arriving from different parts of Europe and 10 attending via webinar are the numbers describing a very successful Policy KEN meeting hosted by the National Agency of Public Registry of Georgia on 19-21 October 2015 in Tbilisi. First day of the PolKEN was focused to the introduction of Black sea region members, their national developments and acknowledgment of their common issues and planning of possible future regional activities supported by EuroGeographics. The meeting ended with accustomed Policy issues supported by comprehensive reports from Task Force leaders on actualities of Digital Single Market, Copernicus and Cadastral issues related to policy, all followed by discussion and new ideas from the participants.

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Presentations

Title	Presenter	Size/type
Introduction to the EuroGeographics strategy	Mick Cory	8.3 MB, PDF
European Location Framework	Laila Aslesen	1.3 MB, PDF
Introduction to National Agency of Public Registry of Georgia	Ekaterina Meskhidze	13.9 MB, PDF
State service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre – latest developments	Dmytro Makarenko	1.2 MB, PDF
INSPIRE Implementation In Romania	Corina Dragomir	3 MB, PDF
Digital Single Market Task Force report	Neil Sutherland	1 MB, PDF
Copernicus Task Force report	Francois Chirie	532 kb, PDF
Cadastre issues related to policy Task Force report	Amalia Velasco	1 MB, PDF
Recent developments in Personal data protection in decisions of the European Court of Justice	Laila Aslesen	523 kb, PDF
Database directive case ECJ 490/14 update	Marjana Zelic	349 kb, PDF
Overview of activities and developments in the UNGGIM and UNGGIM Europe	Carol Aguis	3.4 MB, PDF
WPLA	Ekaterina Meskhidze	3 MB, PDF
European Location Framework in practice	Saulius Urbanas	3 MB, PDF

PolKEN Spring 2016 Meeting

A spring POLKEN meeting was held just after the Extraordinary General Assembly in Leuven, on 12th May 2016. The well attended meeting brought a number of presentations and reports on very actual topics followed by the discussion of members.

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Recorded webinar on Copernicus issues…

Title	Presenter
European Affairs Representation Strategy (EARS)	Mick Cory
Copernicus Task Force report	François Chirié
Cadaster policy related issuesTask Force report	Amalia Velasco
DSM Task Force report	Neil Sutherland
Follow up on ELF Data Provider Agreement, Licensing, Pricing and Business model	Laila Aslesen
New issues of interest – policy tracking update	Marjana Zelic

PolKEN Autumn 2016 Meeting

The November POLKEN meeting was hosted by Institute of Geodesy Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI) in Budapest, Hungary. After being welcomed by the chair Dominik Kopczewski, 12 participants and a number of them via webinar discussed and exchanged knowledge on the most actual topics which were presented by our experts. All presentations are available below.

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Title	Presenter
EuroGeographics Activity Update	Mick Cory
Copernicus reference data Progress of UN-GGIM; WG A on Core data	François Chirié
Role of national LR systems in the ELF	Amalia Velasco
Digital Single Market Task force report	Neil Sutherland
International Federation of Surveyors – FIG activities report	Gerda Schennach
Social Statistic Regulation Proposal	Marjana Zelic

PolKEN Autumn 2017 Meeting

Alongside the EFGS 2017 Conference, EuroGeographics held a meeting of the Policy Knowledge Exchange Network attended by representatives of 9 NMCAs. During the meeting the Task leaders delivered reports of developments in key policy areas focused on issues like potential implications of the ongoing review of the PSI Directive, developments related to INSPIRE MIG-P activities and relevance of other activities resulting from the European Commission’s work plan for 2018. An issue of particular importance has been raised concerning the first draft of specification for the future CorineLandCover 2nd generation presented by the EEA.

The KEN discussed the coming events: the webinar on INSPIRE MIG-P on 15th of December and a workshop on Open Data on 22 of March 2018 in Brussels followed by the next PolKEN plenary meeting on 23 March 2018.

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Presentations

Title	Presenter
MIG – P update	Ewa Surma
Copernicus Task force report	Francois Chirie
Policy developments update	Marjana Zelic

Open Data Workshop March 2018

This event is a Eurogeographics activity.

Members are encouraged to participate in the Open European Location Services (ELS) Open Data Policy and Licensing workshop on 22 March 2018.

Meeting will provide an opportunity to learn about the open data policy and licensing framework for the Open ELS Project. These have been drafted using the results of our recent survey on open data already available from official national sources across geographical Europe.

11:00 to 17:00 CET

Download the draft agenda

Presentations

Title	Author	Size/type
OpenELS – Open Data Policy		2.6 MB, PDF
Introduction to European Location Services (ELS) and Open ELS		740 kb, PDF
OpenELS Licensing		621 kb, PDF