The Closing Keynote for the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference 2013 at UNECA, Ethiopia

1. GSDI14/AfricaGIS
What happened?
Where to next?

2. Who am I?
Executive Director
Communications & Outreach
Open Geospatial Consortium
Australian Citizen
UK Resident
Global traveler

3. Government
Commercial
Research
Academic

4. AfricaGIS/GSDI 14 – the stats
• Over 500 participants
• Over 120 papers & presentations
• 50 countries
• 20 keynotes
• 100s of meetings
• 1000s of great discussions and ideas
• Many many new friends made

5. GSDI Council

6. Day 1
• Welcome - Minister
INTERNATIONAL GEOSPATIAL
ORGANISATIONS

7. Building a collective intelligence
working together in new ways
sharing data and knowledge
Co-operation and collaboration
Do something before it is too late

8. The Corporate Perspective

9. learning sharing
new
ideas

10. August 2011
Source: Mark Iliffe, PhD Candidate, University of Nottingham

11. September 2011
Source: Mark Iliffe, PhD Candidate, University of Nottingham

12. Source: Mark Iliffe, PhD Candidate, University of Nottingham

14. Day 2
- Corporate Perspectives
- ESRI, Intergraph, Google
- World bank
- Economic Development

15. MOBILE & SENSORS
Internet of things to give $10-15 trillion boost to
global economy Source: General Electric

16. For video referenced from Mobile World
Congress opening 2012 see link below
Mobile Technology – Connecting the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl7ccx8oBfw

17. Geospatial services need to consider: “the other
end of the spectrum has customers who do not use
laptops and computers. They use cell phones and
tablets.”
Ola Rollen, President and CEO, Hexagon AB

19. The future “living” 3D map
must be extensible at
every tier by every
developer, not just GIS
specialists
- S. Lawler, Bing

20. Augmented Reality
Graphics from Wikitude

21. United Nations Global Geographic
Information Management
Future Trends: 5 – 10 Year Vision
• Key trends
– Cloud computing
– Linked data
– Internet of Things
– New data creation
– Volunteered Geographic Information
– Open Standards
– Open Source
– Legal and Policy
– Data standards and policy
– Coordination and collaboration
– Skills and Training
http://ggim.un.org/docs/meetings/3rd%20UNCE/U
N-GGIM-Future-trends.pdf

22. Future Living on Earth
understanding sustainability and prosperity
building our collective intelligence
transforming our response to change
creating a regenerative economy

23. What will you do to help change
the world?

24. Denise McKenzie, Executive Director
Communication & Outreach
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
dmckenzie@opengeospatial.org
+ 44 (07) 581 118 189
Twitter @spatialred
Thank you