Virtual Roundtable - The Netherlands

Overview

The virtual roundtable on “Advancing Role of Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure in World Economy, Society and Environment” is being organized with the geospatial ecosystem stakeholders to deep dive into understanding the contexts and readiness for supporting a Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure. Discussions during the roundtable meetings will revolve around current geospatial data infrastructure, policies, institutional capacities, industrial capacity and user capacity. The roundtable meetings will also explore various possible partnership networks, including government to government, government to private, government to multilateral and private to multilateral agencies.

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Program Agenda

Time	Agenda
1400 - 1410	Welcome note by the Chair Rob van de Velde, Director, Geonovum
1410 – 1415	Introductory remarks on Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI) Anamika Das, Head – Geospatial Infrastructure, Market Research and Consulting, Geospatial Media and Communications
1415 - 1435	Presentation on GKI followed by Q&A John Kedar, Strategic Advisor - Geospatial Infrastructure Geospatial Media and Communications
1435 – 1440	Viewpoint: Integration of UN-IGIF and GKI Greg Scott Inter-Regional Advisor, UN-GGIM, United Nations*
1440 - 1550	Discussion on “GKI – Scope, Components and Relevance” Moderator: Rob van de Velde, Director, Geonovum “Initial Thoughts by” Erwin Folmer, Senior Advisor, Kadaster Jantien Stoter Prof., Geo-Information, TU Delft Camille van der Harten, Director, GeoBusiness NL Dirk van Barneveld, Geo-information Officer, Ministry of Interior (Post the initial thoughts the floor will be open to all the participants to present their thought/views/perspective) The topic will highlight: Integration of UN-IGIF and Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure Pre-requisites for the transition to a Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure: Policy Integration Real-time data and Analytics: Drivers for the transition to GKI 4IR technologies driving change towards Data Ecosystem adoption Are we ready to move from data to knowledge infrastructure? Collaboration and partnership as underlying principle for GKI PPP to achieve GKI
1550 - 1555	Concluding Remarks to discussions