LISA

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• LISA
• www.rvk.is/lisa
• Thorbjörg Kr. Kjartansdottir,
• Secretary General
• 1994
• Non Profit Organization

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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)
• LISA has introduced and presented information to
  the Ministry GI Committee (2000-2003) and members
  on the development of INSPIRE
• Iceland has not been active in the work of
  INSPIRE ( workgroups etc.) 
• A GI Ministry Committee ( in preparation) will
  most likely have INSPIRE on the task list
• 4 . Ministry for the Environment
  http//eng.umhverfisraduneyti.is/ministry/tasks 
• 5. Has not been defined / discussed
• 6. Has not been defined / discussed
• 7. Has not been defined / discussed

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• Galileo / GMES
• Ministries and institutes follow development and
  implementation of these two initiatives
• It influences a few ministries, first The
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, M. of Industry, -
  Transport and - Environment
• No, but some of our members are active in work
  groups, (Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration,
  Public Roads Administration, Nat. Mapping Agency
  and others like Technological Institute of
  Iceland, )
• Not discussed 

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• Implementation of the PSI Directive in your
  country
• The Prime Ministers Office http//eng.forsaeti
  sraduneyti.is/
• Participation in Informal group on Public Sector
  Information (PSI Group)
• The Ministry is working on a legislation on
  pricing of PSI based on report from Ministry of
  Finance
• The general principle of universal access to
  public information, subject to a fair service
  charge. Public information should be defined as
  the property of the general public. Service
  charges for its dissemination may not exceed the
  cost of their supply, copying or other
  dissemination
• The report is available for all and has been
  discussed in LISA and presented for the GI
  community at a meeting. LISA is following the
  work on legislation
• LISA can comment on proposals of new law that
  involve the GI sector and we have follow up
  meetings for our members
• http//eng.forsaetisraduneyti.is/information-socie
  ty/
• Information Act 1996
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• Burning GI Issues
• Ø Activating key persons and institutes/companies
• How should top GI influence be structured?
  (national/ Europe level)
• What are the common parameters?
• Activating users in definitions, comments and
  experiment
• How is that best done?
• Learn about success stories from others (members)
  and learn from them
• Developing guidelines, framework, rules,
  standards
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