Spatially enabling governments through SDI implementation

Spatially enabling governments through SDI implementation

Spatially enabled government requires the development of effective SDIs that will support the vast majority of society, who are not spatially aware, in a transparent manner. This paper addresses three strategic challenges arising out of the need of creating this new environment. The first of these is the challenge for more inclusive models of governance given that SDI formulation and implementa...

Spatially enabling governments: A new vision for spatial information

The vision of a spatially enabled government involves establishing an enabling infrastructure to facilitate use of place or location to organise information about activities of people and businesses, and about government actions, decisions and polices. Once the infrastructure is built, spatial enablement allows government information and services, business transactions and community activities ...

Sdi to Facilitate a Spatially Enabled Society

The ability of society to meet sustainable development objectives is a complex and temporal process involving multiple stakeholders. This can be facilitated through the development of a spatially enabled society, where location and spatial information are regarded as common goods made available to citizens and businesses to encourage creativity and product development. This requires data and se...

Spatially Enabling the Health Sector

Spatial information describes the physical location of either people or objects, and the measured relationships between them. In this article, we offer the view that greater utilization of spatial information and its related technology, as part of a broader redesign of the architecture of health information at local and national levels, could assist and speed up the process of health reform, wh...

Re-engineering SDI Development to Support a Spatially Enabled Society