Paving the way for the implementation of the NSDI in NGO-government partnership
Remetey-Fulopp, Gabor
The networked GI community in a country can significantly contribute to the better definition, implementation and control of the national spatial data infrastructure. This is valid also for Hungary, where the preparation of the adoption of INSPIRE directive is underway in NGO-governmental partnership with the active role of the Hungarian Association for Geoinformation. In Hungary, the national GI association HUNAGI was established by ten scientific societies, academic institutions and the HUNGIS Foundation under the auspices of the National Committee on Technological Development in 1994. The co-operation between HUNAGI and the governmental agencies in the field of spatial data infrastructure has started in 1996 as the NSDI concept was realised at the first GSDI Conference held in Bonn-KKnigswinter, Germany. Since that time HUNAGI attended all of the GSDI conferences and its slogan was chosen as A Forum of PPP to support building the Spatial Data Infrastructure on National, European and Global Levell. According to the mission goal, HUNAGI became really interdisciplinary having today 106 member institutions who represent the academia, governmental sector, NGOs and private companies in a balanced way.
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