ECA Regional Workshop for Northern African Countries on NSDI Implementation in Africa Virtual 3-5 March 2021

1. The landscape of regional perspective in
implementation of NSDI
Mohamed Timoulali, GTOPIC
ECA Regional Workshop for Northern African Countries
on NSDI Implementation in Africa
Virtual 3-5 March 2021

2. Content
• Context
• Governance and Institutions
• Technological Capacity
• Innovation and R&D
• Education, Training and Capacity Development
• Market and Industry Capacity
• International Cooperation
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3. Regional Context
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4. African and Arab membership
African Region
• African Union
• ECA
• UMA
• COMESA
• CEN-SAD
• AfCTA
• UNGGIM: Africa
Arab Region
• Arab League
• ESCWA
• GCC
• UNGGIM: Arab States
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5. CRTEAN
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6. Country Geospatial Readiness
comparison
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7. Algeria
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CNIG

8. Egypt
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9. Libya Morocco and Tunisia
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10. Medina e-Infrastructure Project
Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and
Indicators for North Africa
• Enhances the capacities of
Mediterranean Northern
African Countries (Morocco,
Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and
Egypt) to monitor their
coastal and marine
ecosystems, and the
integration of coastal
monitoring tools into
GEOSS.
• The Medina e-
infrastructure (MeI) is a full
SDI, constructed as a
compound of web
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12. Benchmark
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13. India
• National Geospatial Policy 2016
• Geospatial Strategy for New India 2020
• Guidelines for acquiring and producing
Geospatial Data and Geospatial Data Services
including Maps 2021
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14. NSDI
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15. Europe
The European SDI : INSPIRE
Lessons learned from INSPIRE
OGC Modernizing SDI Workshop
Virtual | 10 November 2020
Commonalities vs. Silos
Core Conceptual Model
• European strategy for data 2020
• Data Governance Act 2020
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16. SDI to GKI
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https://geospatialmedia.net/pdf/GKI-White-Paper.pdf

17. Lessons
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18. Conclusions
• Take advantage of the AfCTA to formulate a Regional
Legal Framewrk for the implementation of NSDI in
Africa within an African Regional Spatial Data
Infrastructure : ARSDI
• Reinforce cooperation between ECA and AU for more
synergies between NSDI, Geospatial related projects ,
and the African Transformation Strategies
• Review the work of the UNGGIM: Africa , as a
mechanism to push the implementation of NSDI
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