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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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