Building e-Government Services over Spatial Data Infrastructures

The growing importance of eGoverment is putting pressure on authorities to provide services online and accessible to the citizen. In order to satisfy this necessity, Goverments have to develop high-cost infrastructures in a short period of time and with a diffuse specifications of the objectives and services. In the other hand, there are a large set of initiatives that have been launched for the development of spatial data infrastructures. This kind of infrastructures are the basic tool for optimizing the management of geographic information because its amount and complexity. Most of these initiatives are being promoted and sponsored by public administrations because geographic information is a basic resource for their operative work. This paper proposes the development of eGoverment infrastructures over the spatial data infrastructures launched, viewing them as the providers of the first version of the eGoverment services.