EUROGI EMM 2007 held in Lisbon

Autodesk, ESRI Europe, NAVTEQ and Intergraph on the Board representing the private sector in Europe.

AGI will leave by 31 December. Ihlet has been acknowledged . The WAG International Affairs were presented by Bruce McCormack including the activities in Eastern Europe. Ihlet's Workshop in Brussels was explicite mentioned and evaluated as a good start but a lot to do. He circulated his contribution to the successful meeting organised by the Embassy of South Africa in Brussels entitled "Geoinformation in development cooperation: towards a policy and implementation framework". That meeting was attracted organisations such as the European Commission (AIDCO, DG Research, DG Development), UN (UNGIWG, WHO, GEOSEC), USAID, JICA, EUROGI, EIS Africa, Universities, Embassies of Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya as far as National GI Associations as IRLOGI and AFIGÉO. (HUNAGI was not able to participate due to the schedule conflict with HUNAGI FORUM held on the same date. ) The Data WAG related issues presented by Sandro Gizzi were also discussed.

After EUROGI the ExCom Meeting, President Prof. Mauro Salvemini introduced his new vision related to the reshaping, restructuring of EUROGI in order to strengthen its influence and acknowledgement.

Secretary General Joao Geirinhas made in-depth overview on the activities of the Organisation.

The host institution made excellent arrangement both in professional content and the Meeting-related logistics. Superb presentations were delivered by Professor António Camara of YDreams on Trends and new visions, followed by Anabela Pedroso of the Agency for the Administrative Modernisation who addressed the e-Government related aspects, finally by António Arnaud of the New University of Lisbon, who introduced the European project "Addresses", which is participated also by Hungary via FÖMI.

The host institution Portuguese Geographic Institute was also introduced by Deputy Director General Rui Pedro Juliao, the SDI by Danilo Furtado, while the market implementation was dealt by Dirk Tilsner of EDISOFT. In the Members' Session, HUNAGI made also contribution in line with the pre-circulated questionnaire and using the EUROGI ppt-template. www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/EMM2007HUNAGI.pdf

All the contributions will be evaluated and synthetized and the outcome will be streamlined by a team of four (IRLOGI, SNIG PT, Autodesk and ESRI Europe).

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