Serbia to help with geographical database
The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) is working with the Government of the Republic of Serbia to produce a sustainable plan for a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) and geospatial policy, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.
At a press conference yesterday, GLSC Manager of Information Systems Division, David Cole stated that the Commission had held fruitful discussions with Darko Vucetic, who is the Head of the Centre of Geospatial Information Management, Republic Geodetic Authority of Serbia in Central Europe.
These talks are expected to lead to the development of a sustainable technology-based geospatial information strategy, which
Cole hopes will be completed within the next five years. According to DPI, he also said that a geospatial information policy is currently being devised at the Cabinet level. This is important given the prospect of a changing economy and Guyana’s first oil production.
“The specific areas of cooperation that we are exploring currently concerns helping to get support to create what we call a ‘National Spatial Data Infrastructure’, which is essentially a platform…of policies and standards and arrangements between institutions to leverage geospatial information,” he remarked.
He added that the Commission has developed a roadmap towards the finalisation of such an act.
Vucetic said he is pleased to work with GLSC and the government on this venture. “Geospatial data is very important and can help to unlock the power of the potential of all governments around the world”.