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In the beginning of April EUROGI celebrated its 25 year anniversary with two events. On 5 April a one day event “Horizon 2030 – Visions and Challenges in GI” has been held where where representatives of European Commission and stakeholders of our members community discussed current challenges and opportunities of the GI sector. The day after, on 6 April, 36th General Board meeting of EUROGI has been held, where seven members of EUROGI Executive Committee have been elected. Facing the significant changes and developments of the European GI landscape, the General Board decided to initiate the development of a new strategy for EUROGI’s work. Based on the input provided by EUROGI members during the last year and a structured consultation of EUROGI members and selected European GI stakeholders within the upcoming six months, a dedicated task team will define a strategy to support the European GI community leveraging the ongoing rapid developments and to jointly shape our community’s future. The process will be lead by the re-elected vice-president Andreas Wytzisk, who has also been appointed to be the new president of EUROGI.

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European Commission has just publish a “Europe – the eGovernment factsheets 10-year anniversary report” providing an insightful overview over the last 10 years of Digital Government development.

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EUROGI is holding a webinar on ‘Location Data and GDPR’ on Wednesday, 24 October at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2). For more information and registration please click HERE!

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At last EUROGI General board meeting in Paris, FR, SERTIT from Strasbourg, FR joined the EUROGI community. We all are looking forward to fruitful cooperation.

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Due to the new job position of EUROGI past Vice-President Pascal Lory, AFIGEO, France, on 1 January 2018, he was not able any more to continue representing AFIGEO in EUROGI and holding any other function within EUROGI. Therefore he stepped back as a member of EUROGI Executive Committe and EUROGI Vice-President. At last meeting of EUROGI Executive Committee on 26 January 2018 new EUROGI Vice-President has been elected: Andreas Wytzisk, DDGI, Germany. We congratulate Andreas Wytzisk for being elected. At this occasion, we would like to express gratitude to Pascal Lory for all the support and work done as a member of EUROGI Executive Committee and as a EUROGI Vice-President.      

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The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) in collaboration with Eurogeographics is undertaking a ‘Open European gazetteer and associated location data survey’ as part of the five-year European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government (ELISE) action, which is supported by the ISA2 programme. The results will be used to implement relevant ‘gazetteer’ solutions, starting with a pilot informed by the survey. Data user or applications developers are kindly asked to share their views on what applications and functionality would be of value from an open pan-European service, for example cross-border or multinational applications, or national applications that may benefit from a pan-European and multi-lingual service. Data suppliers, on the other hand, are kindly asked to share their views on what open data and services are provided by their organisations, whether it is authoritative or non-authoritative (e.g. community-sourced) and what cross-border or multi-national applications they already support or they envisage will benefit from such a service. For taking part, please follow the link to Open European gazetteer and associated location data survey

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The webinar will take place on Wednesday 11th October at 14.00 CEST and will be presented by Ciaran Staunton, who will be speaking in his private capacity but is an Administrative Officer in Fingal County Council.  Ciarán will provide background information about OpenStreetMap, the state of play for Ireland and will mention an initiative to put OSM Ireland on a sound administrative footing.  He will also highlight ways in which citizens can become involved in developing OSM Ireland. Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1607469892935293443

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Together with the European Commission, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), DDGI would like to present selected use cases of Copernicus data and information. On Wednesday (September 27th, 2017), a number of key experts will give brief talks on the use of Copernicus (in German): The DDGI as part of the Copernicus Relay Network // Dr. Andreas Müterthies, DDGI Collecting forestry data with Copernicus // Birte Klein, Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz North Rhine-Westphalia Being up-to-date in official surveying: change detection using Copernicus data // Dr. Christian Lucas, Landesamt für Vermessung und Geoinformation Schleswig-Holstein Digital Fields: How Copernicus supports the digitization of agriculture // Dr. Sebastian Fritsch, green spin GmbH, Würzburg Infrastructure and Transport: Potentials for planning and monitoring // Oliver Lang, Airbus Defense and Space, Potsdam Using satellite data of surface water bodies // Dr. Björn Baschek, bfg – Federal Institute for Water Sciences, Koblenz The national Copernicus platform CODE-DE: Introduction and live demonstration // Alexander Klaus, GAF AG When? Wednesday 27 September 2017 from 14:00 to 16:00 Where? Copernicus / Galileo booth European Commission (Hall 3.1, Booth A3.060)

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