Building sustainable geospatial data resources
Building sustainable geospatial data resources
3 September, 2016 •Where we are with the collection and use of GIS data.
The purpose of this paper is to present the potential value that geospatial data has for regulators and the sustainability of different data collection methodologies that regulators can drive for GIS. It reviews two recent pilot projects and one ongoing project, to test different geospatial data
collection models and compares them to previous models employed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners.
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insight2impact (i2ifacility) was funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The programme was established and driven by Cenfri and Finmark Trust.
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