SDI in Lombardia (Italy( Italy) Andrea Piccin European SDI Best Practice Awards 2009 - Learning from Best Practices Turin, 26th and 27th November 2009
Lombardia, in Italy, is 4 th Region for territorial extension 23,861 sqkm 8 % of Italy mountains 40.5% hills 12.5% Po Plain 47%
Lombardia is made of 12 Provinces 1546 Municipalities with a complex pattern to govern! 9 millions inhabitants 21% of the whole Italian GNP Lots of Industry, Agriculture and Service activities
GI Governance Regional acts n. 29/1979 (Cartography and SDI) and n. 12/2005 (Territorial Governance) European dimension European Commission - JRC Ispra European Projects (e.g. EURADIN ) National dimension National GI Coordination Committee (CNIPA) CISIS (Association of Italian Regions) National Geographic Institute (IGM) Navy Hydrographic Institute (IIM) Environmental Protection Agency (ISPRA) Po River Basin Authority (AdBPo) Italian Space Agency (ASI) Regional dimension Regional Departments Lombardia Informatica other Regional Agencies Local Bodies (Provinces, Mnt.Comm., Parks, Mun.) Universities Politechnic School MI
from Government to Governance
Regional role in GI Governance is something like.
A good example is Topographic Databases, realized by local aggregations through co-financing programs 2005-2009 1202 municipalities (77% of Lombardy) in 27 aggregations for 26 M of investment 40% Regional funds 60% Local funds
We started with Regional SDI building: RELIT e-gov. Project Regione Lombardia, MI and BG Provinces, MI Municipality Lombardia Informatica, EC-JRC, Milano Politechnic School STANDARD DATA & SERVICES SDI TECHNOLOGIES ORGANIZATION PERSONNEL
SDI overview Companies professionals Citizens 80 applications & WebServices vertical services& applications Other entities LombardyPA Network at national& european level (RegionalSystem, Provinces, (GDNC, More INSPIRE) than 30k Mountain Comm., Municipalities) accesses per month to horizontal services horizontal services& applications REGIS Regional Enterprise platform for Geographic Information Services HW-SW Infrastructure + 600 geodatasets Geographic Information System +150 maps on the Web IIT
Data & Services: the GEOPortal www.cartografia.regione.lombardia.it
INSPIREd Data & Services Data (regional coverage) Services Annex I: almost completed Discovery service (except for Cadastral and for Addresses p.p.) Annex II: completed Annex III: completed for 3 (soils), 4 (Land use), 12 (Natural risk zones) partial for the others View services Download service Gazetteer service Transformation service Geoprocessing services
INSPIREd actions JRC Workshop Advanced Regional SDIs, 2008, Best Practices sharing Testing (as SDIC) the INSPIRE AD Data Model and developing an INSPIREd Gazetteer Service (2008-2010)
Human relationships always the driving force!
Organizational model Legal Agreements to partecipate the SDI Rules, specifications and standards to share GI and to access to common services Co-funding initiatives to promote aggregation of Municipalities using GI by means of service centers (e.g. TDB mapping program) Support & Dissemination to SDI members Enabling factors, lessons learned, best practices
Some critical issues in building our SDI ENABLING / MITIGATION FACTORS Lots of participants, each with their own identity (1546 Municipalities, 12 Provinces) Poor understanding of GI benefits at local level, if not supported by real cases (taxes, cadastre, health, safety & security) Different technologies used by the participants Different semantic and data models Geometric problems, due to mismatching among data produced by different actors Integration issues due to conflicts about GI ownership among different subjects Importance of updating processes at the proper level, to keep data live, real and usable AGGREGATIONS and SERVICE CENTERS PILOT PROJECTS on TOP RATED AREAS USE of STANDARDS COMMON TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS HARMONISATION TECNIQUES and TOOLS COMMON RULES and BEST PRACTICES INTEGRATION OF GI with LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
Impact assessment Analisys of GI in Lombardia JRC First step (2008): the state of the art case histories Regional level: 11 Regional Dpts and 4 Reg. Agencies Local level: 2 Provinces, 2 Mountain Communities and 4 Municipalities Topics: Organisation, Technology, Data, Human resources, Users Second step (2009): SDI impact measuring (following the Measurement Framework model - egep) Indicators categories: Efficiency, Democracy, Efficacy Indicators definition and impact evaluation: Focused on EIA & SEA Ass. and on Territorial Planning (Professionals & Companies) Main results: average 11% cost reduction for the private sector (EIA & SEA Comm.) due to SDI availability, corresponding to about 3 M per year (Vs about 1.4 M per year for SDI development & maintenance); SDI avl. foster the development of added value services based on GI.
Next steps Multilingual tools on Geoportal: facilitate the access to GI Forced Integration between GI and Environmental Information, next cooperation project INSPIRE Lombardy with EC-JRC Integration between TDB and Cadastre at local level: connect GI with local procedures on buildings, taxes and utility services Improving Geoportal usability & performances Promote communication and education for GI culture GOOD LUNCH and THANKS for YOUR ATTENTION!