1. The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for 2001 - 2005 Worked out by NEMOFORUM - a platform of co-operation of public administration and private sector (professional unions, universities etc.) Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

2. Leading role of Czech Association for Geoinformation (CAGI) and the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre Accepted by NEMOFORUM members in spring 2001 Supported by the Governmental Council for State Information Policy in autumn 2001 Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

3. Content – starting points – basic concept of NGII – main topics of NGII 10 main areas of NGII – existence of programme of further development – connection to European and global GI initiatives – co-ordination and co-operation of partners (P-P-P) Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

4. – technical conditions – organizational, legislative, financial conditions, copyright etc. – basic data sets (core data) – meta-information systems (clearing house) – standards (transfer standards, description of data sets, terminology …) – qualification of professionals – knowledge and skills of users Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

5. For every area – state-of-art – aims – projects and measures responsibility/gesture for every project/measure

6. Starting points – a lot of NGII elements exists – lack of co-ordination and co-operation – lack of strategic plan / programme of further development – long-term knowledge of European and global activities Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

7. – NGII pointed out in the State Information Policy - road to Information Society document (reaction to eEurope, e-Government and similar initiatives) – suitable platform in NEMOFORUM The most important existing elements of NGII in the Czech Republic – spatial reference frame of geodetic control points – state map series in analogue and digital form Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

8. – resort thematic maps – the Fundamental Base of Geographic Data – basic registers of public information systems – wide-area network of cadastral information system – new study subjects in geomatics and geoinformatics involved in the study programmes of the universities – educational programme for the enhancement of professional qualification of public administration employees in the field of geoinformation Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

9. – meta-information systems about geoinformation sources MIDAS – standardisation of geoinformation – a stable frame of regular professional events Main new projects (under development or planned) – Project 4.1: To prepare a conception of use of geodata and geoinformation in public administration and education Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

10. – Project 5.1: To set out a methodical instruction (set of rules) for access to public geodata and geoinformation and trade of them – Project 5.3: To identify the requirements for copyright law reflecting the needs of GI sphere, and their preparation for a new amendment of copyright law – Project 6.2: The Fundamental Base of Geographic Data ZABAGED Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

11. – Project 6.3: Ortho-photo-maps of the territory of the Czech Republic – Project 6.4: Digital cadastral map – Project 6.5: The basic register of spatial identification and real estates – Project 7.1: Development and maintenance of the MIDAS meta-information system about sources of geodata as a subproject of the public data meta- information systém Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

12. – Project 8.1: The definition of the sets of standards for the geodata transfer – Project 8.2: The preparation of further transfer formats on the background of the defined sets of transfer standards – Project 8.3: The release of the explanatory terminology vocabulary from the sphere of geomatics and geoinformatics Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

13. – Measure 9.1: To work out the recommendations for innovation of university study programmes in geomatics and geoinformatics with the consideration of the interdisciplinary features of these branches – Project 10.1: The education programme of the public administration employees for the work with geoinformation – Project 10.2: The project GLOBE on basic and secondary schools in the Czech Republic Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005

14. – Project 10.3: The instructive-educational programmes and other ways of promotion the importance of GI use Responsibility – gesture for every project/measure (responsible subject + other co-operands) Funding – from budget of the subjects – application to the Action Plan of Implementation of the State Information Policy (central money) Josef Hojdar, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CR The National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - Programme for years 2001 - 2005