| Description
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| SDIC Title
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Spatial Data Interest Community HUNAGI |
| Acronym
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SDIC-HUNAGI |
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Mission and Objectives
| To promote, stimulate, encourage and support the development and use of GI and its associated technologies
To strengthen the institutional linkage between the multidisciplinary GI communities in Hungary and in abroad
To provide platform and expert fora by multiagency and PPP facilitating the NSDI development
To promote the access and use of GI by improving coordination, co-operation, networking, collaboration, knowledge transfer and exchange of information on European and Global level
SDIC-HUNAGI provides representation and visibility of the GI community's interest in the European and Global fora |
| Mandate
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HUNAGI is a non-profit, interdisciplinary umbrella organisation founded on 9th November 1994, registred by Court on 8th January 1996 and upgraded and re-registered as a public-benefit society by the Capital Court of Budapest on 14th August 2002.
The action and financial plans are reviewed and approved by the Annual General Assembly of the member institutions (109 so far).
The activity of HUNAGI is recognised by the governmental institutions and agencies.
It was selected to run an ad hoc committee on the elaboration of the national spatial data infrastructure strategy by the Strategic Subcommittee of the Interministerial Committee on Information Society orchestrated by the Ministry of Informatics and Communication.
The activities are supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences too.
Key roles include:
GI policy maker
Knowledge and information supplier
Public relations, awareness raising and promotion of GI
programme/project assistance and support
political interface and lobbyist
mediator, negotiator
promoter of standards and mutual recognition of certificates
facilitator of education and training
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| Formal Mandate
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None
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| Main Activities
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Workshops
Seminars
Conferences
Projets
Publications
Lobbying
These activities are done by weekly frequency.
An up-to date description of the past 5 years can be found in the recent paper:
"Spatial Data Interest Community in Hungary networking interdisciplinary stakeholders to share the Digital Earth vision" presented at the 4th ISDE Meeting held in Tokyo in April 2005.
The paper can be downloaded from the www.hunagi.hu website: About... Presentations
The continuously updated website contains a detailed listing on the past year's events and actions too: About... Leaflet
The actions are related to the EU programs and projects, the INSPIRE initiative, the PSI, the GMES, Galileo and with events in close collaboration with UN, European and Global organisations.
Forthcoming important events hosted by SDIC HUNAGI:
CEOS WGISS Meeting, Budapest, Summer 2006
AGILE Conference, Budapest, 2006
ISPRS WG iV/1 Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference, Budapest Autumn 2007
6th Digital Earth Conference, Budapest, Autumn 2009
(bid submitted, will be evaluated at the Digital Earth Summit in Auckland in early 2006 or at the 5th ISDE in San Frasnisco in 2007)
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| SDIC URL
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www.hunagi.hu |
| Membership
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SDIC HUNAGI has 109 member institutions from academia, government, nNGOs and private sector, plus 8 project management of countrywide projects as well as 34 student members.
A full listings of the members can be downloaded from the website: Members... |
| Typology
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Regional |
| Comments
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I was unable to use word editing function "copy" during the completion of this questionnaire, this is the reason, why listings and details were not inbedded but referred (www.hunagi.hu)
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| Contact information for SDIC |
| Contact Person |
Gabor Remetey-Fulopp
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| Organisation |
Hugarian Association for Geo-information, Secretary General |
| Function |
Operational activities in international affairs and domestic networking, awareness raising
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| Address |
1122 Budapest Pethenyi ut 11/b |
| Country |
HUNGARY |
| Tel |
+36 30 415 8276 |
| Fax |
+36 1 301 4719 |
| PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT |
| Which role(s) do you foresee for the SDIC in INSPIRE development |
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submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams
- participate in the review process
- contribute to awareness raising and training
- be kept informed
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| Area of work/experience |
| Geographic Domain: |
National
Description of geographic extent
Most of the domain where GI/GIS is a tool
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| Societal Sector
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Mix of Governmental, NGOs, Academic and Private sector |
| Specific Expertise |
Metadata  |
| Data Specifications |
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| INSPIRE Data Themes
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| Title |
User | Producer | Coordinator |
| Administrative units |
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| Cadastral parcels |
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| Protected sites |
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| Elevation |
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| Land cover |
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| Orthoimagery |
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| Geology |
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| Statistical units |
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| Soil |
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| Land use |
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| Habitats and biotopes |
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| Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development
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Nominated by HUNAGI several member representatives took part in the INSPIRE WG activiites (2002-2003)
On domestic level, learly all of the items in Annex I and II data are used or produced by the members of HUNAGI.
Coordination is still open to be solved asap |
| Primary Business
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Mapping, Remote Sensing, Agriculture, Environment, Nature Protection, Land management, Geology, Water management, Forestry, Soil Conservation etc. |
| Environmental application domains
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Nature conservation, Biotops, Protected sites, Environmental monitoring, Plant health, Education, Knowledge transfer |
