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Education and Culture Working GroupCouncil of Europe, Strasbourg: 22 January 2013
Europe, education and open geodata
Digital Agenda (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/)
Pillar I: Digital Single Market Pillar II: Interoperability & Standards Pillar III: Trust & Security Pillar IV: Fast and ultra-fast Internet access Pillar V: Research and innovation Pillar VI: Enhancing digital literacy, skills
and inclusion Pillar VII: ICT-enabled benefits for EU society
Digital Agenda target areas (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/)DG Education and Culture
“New skills, New jobs”
initiative
Capacity for change: sustainable implementation and progressive scaling up (of ICT-enabled innovative learning environments) EC Joint Research Centre (2012)
Europe needs to scale up its educational uses of ICT
European Commission research
Creative classrooms
JRC (2012) "Challenges of implementing Creative Classrooms practices”, http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/documents/_6_Etwinning_WS1_March2012.pdf, eTwinning conference, Tampere Finland
Creative classroom concept
Sharing geographic data across borders is a key European policy:◦collaboratively manage resources, ◦create fairer (transparent) governance structures and
◦contribute to each others' economic prosperity.
Open data
Report on the potential of mapping software to empower consumers http://t.co/L25kIxlT
INSPIRE - Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe - an EU Directive ◦ European governments work together to design
common legislative standards that will allow, or oblige, national agencies to co-operate
Aim to create a common framework for European spatial data
Now free data access across Europe – many countries still slow to develop this
INSPIRE Directive
Europe OpenGeoData platform http://epsiplatform.eu/content/open-geodata
12th December 2011 - Mrs Kroes, Commissioner for the Digital Agenda announced a new Open Data Strategy for Europe, she said:“The best way to get value from data is to give it away.” “Instead of needing complicated authorisation you will be automatically allowed to reuse the public data you need.”“Fees will be limited to marginal cost.” “I also say to private business – open your data”
Open data – recent news
Should provide political and economic decision-takers and scientists with reliable data for assessing environmental conditions across the whole of Europe◦ UK - http://data.gov.uk/◦ IT - http://www.dati.piemonte.it◦ FR - http://opendata.paris.fr, http://www.data.gouv.fr/
Dutch government released core data sets to the public free of charge for re-use, from January 1st 2012 NL - http://www.data.overheid.nl
Finnish government opened up all its data for free re-use from May 1st 2012
Other countries? Regions?
Open data
Sept 12, 2012 - Neelie Kroes speech European Commission’s ongoing commitment to
policies, projects and funding to support open data and open access – 4 features:
1. EU proposed new legislation to open up public sector information◦ Businesses and citizens can access and use this
resource◦ The scope also includes cultural institutions◦ EC putting its own data on a single online portal, with
free and easy access◦ could generate economic gains around €40 billion a year
Open data – recent news
2. developments in cultural open data ◦ EU promotes
Europeana as the access point for Europe’s libraries, museums, galleries and archives
◦ metadata for over 20 million exhibits in the public domain
Open data headlines
Europeana http://www.europeana.eu
Europeana http://www.europeana.eu
Europeana http://www.europeana.eu
3. Open collaborative science ◦Propose to make available, under open
access, all publications that stem from EU-funded research
◦Open access to the data from scientific experiments and studies
4. support research related to open data ◦€45 million for open access infrastructures
for science
Open data headlines
European portal
EPSI Opendata Platform http://epsiplatform.eu/content/open-geodata
European societal challenges ◦ CORINE (Coordination of Information on the
Environment) project ◦ ‘Global Monitoring for Environment and Security'
(GMES) – 2004◦ INSPIRE Directive - 2007
Open governance – new opportunities for citizens to interact
Open data – freedom of information (Neelie Kroes, 2011; 2012)
Europe 2020 - Education & Training 2020
European dimensionThe need for geographic
information is transforming
Europe
What about education?
USA data: http://www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s=geospatial
No defined geospatial workforceEstimated 50,000 jobs in
the geospatial industry
cannot be filled in Europe.
Industry growth at 7-10%
per annum
Little or no research on the
geospatial workforce in
Europe – a few countries
starting to react (Belgium,
Estonia, Finland)
Digital-earth.eu
Integrate Digital Earth in the Digital Agenda for Europe
Infrastructure issues: soft- hardware, data Low knowledge of teachers, low confidence No time in the curriculum, curriculum too full Not in teacher training curriculum Decision makers unaware of importance No guidelines what students should be able to do
(Needs Analysis, digital-earth.eu Project, 2011)
Needs Analysis: Main issues
Not many teachers involvedToo few young people with the necessary awareness, skills, knowledge and experience
1. Support education and training ◦ continuity for digital-earth products
2. Research – Think Tank◦ White Paper/Book◦ Report on innovative pilots ◦ Produce a ‘high growth industry’ profile ◦ Develop indicators on geospatial status
3. Establish an expert group◦Advise EC and bring agencies together
4. Launch event (Digital Earth summit)◦ industry meets education meets policy makers
Pilot project “Integrating DE”
Simplifying the publication of data and maps
Each producer creates maps and publishes services and metadata when they want
Can publish and reference own maps and services in their blog, web site, social networking
Can re-use one another’s available layers, including backgrounds / base maps
Now ArcGIS Online et al.
“It’s fine to have geo-data, metadata, technology, top-class methods. But are all the considered people ready to use it really?”
Specific geoinformation knowledge is important …. geointelligence, geo-thinking …
quality and qualification of Human Resources will determine its use ….
any tool is better maintained, and utilizable, when its user is well trained ….
Should we not focus more on education and edification while developing the wider SDI concept?…. Jiri Hiess, LinkedIn, 12/11/2012
Conclusion … from LinkedIn Nov 2012
Strong EU commitment Driven by the Digital Agenda for Europe
Little or no focus on education Infrastructure increasingly in place EU data coming online – EEA- EyeonEarth
Market-driven initiatives (Cloud)
Conclusions