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Issues relating to resources |
Allocate sufficient resources to undertake activities |
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Establish a permanent secretariat |
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Obtain funding for staff and pilot projects that match significant issues |
| Issues relating to actions and outcomes | Produce results in an acceptable timeframe |
| Produce results relevant to emerging economies | |
| Link results to sustainable development and decision-making | |
| Determine direction after Africa and South America | |
| Link to Global Map, Digital Earth, UN Global Database Project and CEOS | |
| Develop a policy cookbook | |
| Undertake activities that help me in my own country | |
| Keep the 'G' in GSDI, reminds us of need for compatibility across borders | |
| Broker the development of a global services catalogue | |
| Broker funding from range of sources | |
| Two functions emerging, conference group and task-project management group, seek volunteer to permanently resource the latter | |
| Accept invitation by ISO TC211 of Class A liaison status | |
| Engage industry, multi-national banks and UN, establish taskforce to engage these people | |
| Engage the military, databases could be released as a result | |
| Market the concept of SDI templates (eg data management best practice) to funding agencies | |
| Undertake a pilot project (eg global inventory of spatial data) | |
| Concentrate on ways to help countries institutionalise their NSDI's | |
| Find ways to help countries to be involved | |
| Need to produce something (like the TWG cookbook) | |
| Use geospatial as a means of communicating policy | |
| Continue the broad workplan approaches demonstrated by the TWG | |
| Find a better definition for GSDI | |
| Consider holding GSDI6 in Europe, managed by EUROGI | |
| Effective communication and funding mechanisms are needed | |
| Need to define a unique role |
| Issues relating to organisation | Define the roles of members of the steering group |
| Clarify current steering committee structures | |
| Establish a stronger steering committee | |
| Prepare for the umbrella organisation, with a co-operative public/private form, based on the outcomes of the business case |
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Business case |
Pursue the business |
| Don't just focus on case studies | |
| Focus on development of economies, not just saving money | |
| Use what-if scenarios (eg with GSDI would response to Mozambique floods have been better) | |
| Design a case that works in worst of bureaucracies | |
| Use cost avoidance approaches |
| General comments and perceptions | Encouraged that idea is catching on as evidenced by numbers at GSDI4 |
| Has a place in furthering the knowledge base | |
| Helps our understanding of complementary initiatives | |
| Primarily an advocacy group | |
| Is going to happen, our efforts guide and steer this happening | |
| A forum for communication, providing a focus not happening in other forums | |
| Promotes communication and common understanding | |
| An advocacy group and a broker | |
| Is about convergence and understanding | |
| PhD's are now being done on this topic |