1. Legal Framework for the Geospatial
information
Mohamed Timoulali, GTOPIC sarl
Deuxième Congrès International sur la Télédétection et
des SIG (DCITS)25-27 juin 2014 Casablanca
SIG et télédétection au service de la gouvernance
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2. Content
- e-Strategies and NSDI
- Harmonisation of the cyberlegislation
- Evolution of the legal framework for the
Geoinformation
- The Moroccan legal framework for the digital economy
- Toward a national plan for the Geospoatial
Information
- Conclusion
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3. ICT Policy development process
ICT Policy
Infrastructure
Info Structure
Enabling
Environment
Human
Resources
Applications
Contents
Administration Private sector Civil Society Academia
MEDIAS
6. NSDI
Access and distribution Policies and guidelines
Competence and education
Standards
Geographic
information
&
services
Partnership and cooperation
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7. Legal and policy developments
• Where does liability lie – if the trend in litigation and seeking legal
redress for data issues grows?
• Technology develops without boundaries; whereas legal and policy
frameworks, confined by national boundaries, are not developing in a
consistent way.
• Development of consistent and transparent legal and policy
frameworks – in areas such as privacy, national security, liability and
intellectual property – are required.
8. The african regional legal
framework for cybersecurity
Convention on the legal framework for
cybersecurity in Africa
- Cyber crime
- Cyber Security
- Personal Data Protection
- Electronic Transactions
- e-Signature
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9. ESCWA ICT legal and regulatory
framework for the arab region
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Exemple of the need for
regulation and legislation :
UAV photogrammetry
12. INSPIRE - INfrastructure for SPatial
InfoRmation in Europe
Adopted in May 2007
Metadata
Geographic data series
Network Services
Harmonized Accesss
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16. The Moroccan legal framework for
the digital economy
Convention de Budapest
Approuvé par le
Conseil de
gouvernement
Approuvé par le
conseil des
ministres 16
M. Bennani
17. Conclusions
- There is a need for an updated legal framework
for the Geospatial information as a component
of a National Geospatial Information Plan
- A multistakeholders approach is recommended
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Liability and the issue of data assurance
NCMA’s have largely been able to avoid liability issues – through disclaimers that strive to protect them from litigation risk.
What happens when someone takes legal redress when a user has suffered demonstrable loss? If this trend grows, then data provides will have to consider this carefully and might also impact on wider law making within government.
Likely to take three forms:
Accept the risk
Legislation to minimise litigation risk
“warranted” data models – higher price to cover the risk, but could be seen as a value-add service when the data is used to make high impact decisions in the future.
Disparities between legal and policy frameworks
There will be a difficulty in getting the balance and we will likely see a disparity between winner and loser nations – with nations whose laws have kept up to speed with technologies facilitating the growth of location-enabled societies and other nations struggling to maximise it where regulations are over-burdensome.
Addressing this, or atleast ensuring that the divide between nations is not too wide will be one of the major challenges within the legal and policy environment in the coming years.
The aim should be to ensure that the technology and business applications that would be of great value to a society, are available globally.
INSPIRE staat voor « INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe ». Deze Europese richtlijn werd aangenomen in mei 2007 en heeft betrekking op metadata betreffende cartografische gegevens, cartografische gegevensset en cartografische diensten. In het kader van deze richtlijn moeten ook gestroomlijnde voorwaarden voor toegang tot gegevens en diensten opgesteld worden zodanig dat openbare diensten die verantwoordelijk zijn voor milieu moeiteloos over deze gegevens kunnen beschikken.