INSPIRE advanced

This training module dealt with how INSPIRE could become a key enabler in e‐Government business processes. It placed the INSPIRE Directive in the context of other policy initiatives and broader technological developments and explained the future developments of INSPIRE and its maintance programme. and broader technological developments.

Content

1. INSPIRE & e-government
2. INSPIRE & related EU policies
3. INSPIRE cross-sector & cross-border applications
4. INSPIRE maintenance

Description

Member States started the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive in 2007. Since then more than 250.000 spatial data and network services have been made available through the European, national and thematic geoportals. However, the integration of INSPIRE network services in day-to-day business processes remains a challenge. There are many good practices of the use of geographic information in the context of e-Governmental processes in which many Government to Citizens (G2C), Government to Business (G2B) and Government to Government (G2G) interactions take place. Moreover, the INSPIRE approach can certainly be applied in other policy domains and its added value will become most obvious in cross-border and cross-sector applications.

This module dealt with how INSPIRE can become a key enabler in e-Government business processes. It placed the INSPIRE initiative in the context of other initiatives and broader technological developments. The module explained INSPIRE potential future developments and its maintenance programme. Examples of the integration of location information in e-Governmental processes were given, with focus on cross-sector and cross-border applications. The training material consisted of presentations, supporting documents and a weblecture.

More information about the module can be found on the SmeSpire training platform.