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JOINING UP GOVERNMENTS EUROPEANCOMMISSION
Establishing a European Union Location Framework
Agenda
• Introduction• Vision for the EULF• Proposed activities
– European policy alignment– Integration of INSPIRE in e-Government– Standards and interoperability– Benefits realisation
• Conclusions
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European Union Location Framework
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Is a European Commission led initiative to bring the power of location data and services to European Public Administrations enabling them to better address pressing social and economic issues and help users outside of government to create new products and services
It will build on the experiences gained within the INSPIRE community for the environmental sector and extend the benefits to other sectors, such as energy, transport, health, telecommunications and security
European Union Location Framework
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INSPIRE Directive 2007/02/ECThe INSPIRE Directive lays down general rules to
establish an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe for the purposes of Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an
impact on the environmentThe infrastructure will build on infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by Member States
The objective is to create a European Union Location Framework (EULF), an EU-wide cross-sectoral interoperability framework for sharing location data and services
European Union Location Framework
As recognised in the recent communication “Towards interoperability for European public services“ COM(2010) 744, action on interoperability is essential to maximise the social and economic potential of ICT
Digital Agenda for Europea flagship initiative of the Europe 2020 Strategy
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The EULF opportunity
• Location data is used a wide range of policy areas: environment, transport, health etc
• INSPIRE location data and standards can be used in other sectors, support cross-sector and cross-border applications, and make a significant contribution to e-government
• Action is needed to realise the potential of INSPIRE, engage decision makers and address the barriers to re-use and interoperability of location data and services
• This can be achieved through the establishment and adoption of the EULF
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EULF Vision
“Location data and services created by public administrations across Europe will be accessible by users inside and outside of government for individual, cross-sector and cross-border applications and will play a vital part in the drive towards effective e-government”
What will it contain?The EULF will be a set of guidelines, standards, principles, policy measures and strategic actions that will help remove barriers to re-use and interoperability and realise the potential of these valuable assets
How will it be developed?The EULF will be developed collaboratively with stakeholders and will be based on the wider adoption of INSPIRE, consistent with the Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) and the European Interoperability Framework (EIF)
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Proposed activities
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EU policy alignment
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Fact finding and analysis• Identify policies and initiatives where location
information is relevant• Assess the synergies, gaps and inconsistencies
between these activities and INSPIRERecommendations and actions• Define actions to improve interoperability,
simplify implementation and reduce costs, including changes to INSPIRE
DIGIT ISA actions MARE Marine Knowledge 2020, Maritime security
CONNECT
PSI Directive, Open data ENV Thematic Directives: e.g. Air, Floods, WFD
MOVE Intelligent Transport Systems
AGRI CAP post 2013
ENTR Copernicus, Galileo, Raw materials
REGIO
ESPON and EU Cohesion policy
ENER Smart grids and smart metering
ESTAT European Statistical Programme 2013-17
Examples:
Integration of INSPIRE in e-Government
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Fact finding and analysis• Determine the role of location information
and INSPIRE in Member States e-Government policies
• Determine where INSPIRE is used today in policy areas beyond environment
• Identify best practices and lessons learned that can be shared amongst Member States
Recommendations and actions• Create a benchmarking model to compare
current implementations in Member States and use in measuring future progress
• Define best practice approaches and recommend actions for integration of location data and services in e-government implementations
Standards and interoperability
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Fact finding and analysis• Identify standards and best practices in
publication and use of location information• Identify gazetteers and techniques for
discovering and combining location information from different sources
• Determine how well integrated are the policies for location information with wider EU and Member State information policies, ICT strategies and frameworks for interoperability (EIF, other ISA actions)
Recommendations and actions• Provide guidance and strategic direction on
standards and interoperability for location data and services
Benefit realisation
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Fact finding and analysis• Identify benefits of better integration• Identify best practices realising benefits from
location information and INSPIRE• Identify innovative applications, particularly
cross-sector and cross-border• Determine benefits of INSPIRE to the private
sector• Identify barriers to delivering benefits and what
is being done to overcome themRecommendations and actions• Provide guidelines and recommendations on
delivering benefits with location data and services
• Facilitate identification and delivery of new cross-sector and cross-border applications
Benefit areas
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Benefits Beneficiaries Opportunities
Increased coherence and consistency in EU policy
Improved e-Government integration
Increased awareness of the benefits of location information and interoperable services
A coherent framework for sharing location information and use of location based services
Increased interoperability between public administrations
Enhanced use of standards and quality of information
EU and member state policy makers and operational staff, through simplified and better integrated approach
Citizens, businesses and voluntary sector, through improved services, better access to information and improved interaction with government
Research, academia and statisticians, through better access to information
Integrated transport systems
Employment and mobility
Health risk management
Flood risk management
Police and fire services
Animal disease
Food security
Cross-border mortgages
GMES and GNSS services
Climate change adaption
Statistics production
Relationship between EULF and EIF
Legal
Organisational
Semantic
Technical
Policy alignment for location information
EIF LevelsEULF
e-Government integration, best practices, facilitate new applications, benefit
realisation
Priorities / standards for core and domain-specific
location information
Business requirements for location information solutions, promote
standards
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Conclusions
• Location information is vital in all policy areas• INSPIRE is the EU strategic approach for publishing
and using location information• INSPIRE Implementation is underway across Europe
but there is a long way to go to realise its full potential
• More concerted steps are needed by EC and MS to:– Make implementation and use of INSPIRE more
straightforward– Raise the location information profile and INSPIRE role– Ensure the INSPIRE approach is integrated into wider
policy domains that use location information– Deliver tangible benefits as broadly as possible
• The proposed EULF work programme will establish the basis to realise these benefits as efficiently as possible
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Thank you
Questions and views?
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