AM/FM GIS Italia

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• AM/FM GIS Italia
• www.amfm.it
• Mauro Salvemini President
• Year of foundation 1990
• Type of organisation not for profit association
  

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National GI Burning Issues their relationship
to the wider Europe
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• INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information
  in Europe)
• What has been the involvement of your
  organisation within your country?
• Has a shadow INSPIRE coordinating committee been
  set up?
• Which Government Ministry is leading on INSPIRE?
• Which is the most challenging issue of INSPIRE in
  your country?
• On which topics of INSPIRE should EUROGI
  concentrate?
• Do you expect any support from EUROGI for doing
  your INSPIRE activity ( if any) ?

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INSPIRE answer 1

• What has been the involvement of your
  organisation within your country?
• Preface
• Within 15 years AMFM succedeeded in making
  awareness , creating consensus in the private and
  public sector.
• Presently XY user members from regional and
  province local authorities , XY software
  industrial stakeholders.
• The involvement of central government has been
  always not easy.
• Exhibitions , conferences and workshops has been
  always very successful.(
• Answer
• Central Gov. did not promote until now for an
  open discussion on the theme .
• AMFM proceeds investing resources for
  distributing knowledge on I. with the involvement
  of EUROGI and EC.

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• INSPIRE answer 2
• Has a shadow INSPIRE coordinating committee been
  set up?

• Preface
• For cartographic and DB standards the Conferenza
  Stato, Regioni, Enti Locali sui Sistemi
  Informativi Geografici (established 1996)
  involving several public central and local
  administrations drafted a reccomandation act
  (1996 and 2000) based on specifications issued by
  Coordination Technical Commitee www.intesagis.it
• Answer
• It is in progress to be formed , already voted by
  the AMFM Excom.

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INSPIRE answer 3- Which Government Ministry is
leading on INSPIRE?

• The Ministry of Environment (www.minambiente.it)

• INSPIRE answer 4
• Which is the most challenging issue of INSPIRE in
  your country?

• Coordination Involvement of Central and Local
  Public Administrations

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INSPIRE answer 5 On which topics of INSPIRE
should EUROGI concentrate?

• In making the approval process as effective and
  short possible through the involvement of his
  members.

INSPIRE answer 6 Do you expect any support from
EUROGI for doing your INSPIRE activity ( if any)
?

• YES, it is one of the main reason for us to be
  part of association
• Lobbying and supporting our vision with the EC
• Sharing information with other members and
  externally
• Promoting political attention and awareness
• Exploring new frontiers training, prof.
  certification, etc.
• Improving the opportunity for funded projects

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• Galileo / GMES
• Yes in both initiatives?
• Ministry MIUR .. WWW
• Not directly , some of our members are directly
  involved belonging to stakeholders as (
  Telespazio, Finmeccanica, etc.)
• The potential impact and the possible use is very
  high and may tremendously affect future societal
  developments. Still some doubts about the
  distribution and the access to the information.

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• Galileo / GMES
• Italy is involved in both initiative
• The Galileo Industries Consortium will have a
  base in Italy
• Italy, together with Germany, France and UK is
  strongly founding the Galileo initiative.
• Italy is also highly involved in GMES
• Italy is leading some thematic projects in the
  framework of the GMES initiative
• MAMA (Mediterranean network to Assess and upgrade
  the Monitoring and forecasting Activities in the
  basic) - International Marine Center, Oristano,
  Sardinia - www.imc-it.org/progetti/mama/MAMA.htm
• EUFOREO, Telespazio, Rome - www.cs.telespazio.it/e
  arsc/EUFOREO
• The Italian Cosmo-SkyMed system is a prototype of
  the future GMES system

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• Galileo / GMES
• The Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of
  Education, University and Research (www.miur.it)
  are involved in the initiatives.
• Is your organisation involved in these
  initiatives?
• How do you see these initiatives in relation to
  the PSI Directive, the Freedom of access to
  Environmental Information Directive if at all?
• Highly relevant?

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• Implementation of the PSI Directive in Italy
• Ministry for Innovation and Technologies.
• www.innovazione.gov.it
• Has the Ministry undertaken a public consultation
  on the implementation of the PSI Directive? (An
  Impact Assessment). If Yes what was the outcome?
  If No is one expected?
• NO. No information
• The CNIPA (National Centre for Informatics in the
  Public Administration) is leading a Working Group
  which will support the Ministry in the
  implementation of the PSI directive.
• www.cnipa.gov.it/site/it-IT/La_Documentazione/Tac
  cuino_tecnico/Documenti/L_informazione_pubblica_un
  a_risorsa_da_valorizzare.html

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• Implementation of the PSI Directive in Italy
• Has your organisation been involved in the
  national process of implementing the PSI
  Directive? If Yes how has the organisation been
  involved. If No is there a reason?
• NO. Process is not already started .
• In your opinion are public sector employees at
  all levels aware of the PSI Directive? Give your
  reason. (use bullet points)
• NO. But they are aware how uneasy is the
  distribution and sharing of information.
• Has a Freedom of Information law been implemented
  within your country? If Yes state the year it
  came into force. If No is such a law envisaged?
• A general law ( 241/1990) there exists for
  access to PSI. The price for commercial use of
  PSI varies between organisations.

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• Burning GI Issues
• High level technical Coordination about GI ( NO
  STANDARDS) among public authorities on
  administrative services aiming to a collaborative
  and federate environment of services.
• The concretisation of educational and training
  issue in professional certification.