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Spatial Data Infrastructure Of The Plurinational State Of Bolivia - A Free And Democratic Sdi, Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez, Sylvain Lesage
Spatial Data Infrastructure Of The Plurinational State Of Bolivia - A Free And Democratic Sdi, Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez, Sylvain Lesage
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
The Vice Presidency of the State, with the help of the GeoBolivia project, is building the Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (IDEEPB by its Spanish initials). The first phase of the project has already been completed. It consisted in implementing an infrastructure and a geoportal that nowadays gives access to the reference geographic information of Bolivia, through WMS, WFS, WCS and CSW services. The project is currently in its second phase dedicated to decentralizing the structure of IDE-EPB and promoting its use throughout the Bolivian State. The whole platform uses free software and open standards. As …
A New Zealand Case Study - Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data, Brent Alexander Wood
A New Zealand Case Study - Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data, Brent Alexander Wood
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
The National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) is New Zealand’s leading agency providing freshwater, ocean, climate, atmosphere and fisheries related research. Open Source software is widely used internally, both infrastructurally and in desktop systems. In 2011, the New Zealand Government passed “The Declaration on Open and Transparent Government”. This requires central government agencies to make taxpayer funded information freely available to the public, and encourages regional and local government, as well as agencies such as NIWA to comply. NIWA works closely with central and regional government, utilities, NGO’s and primary industry, making information discovery and delivery using common …