1. Building Information Communities:
Spatially Enabled Social Protection in Indonesia
Information and Innovation in Service Delivery
Canberra, 26-27th November 2012
Paul Box
Interoperable Systems Research Team Leader
CSIRO DIGITAL PRODUCTIVITY AND SERVICES FLAGSHIP

2. Overview
• Information communities and their role?
• How do we support them?
• Spatially enabling social protection in Indonesia
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3. Information communities
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4. Digital tribes
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Verticals - line ministries, scientific domains, application domains
Silos and stovepipes
Everything happens somewhere
Geospatial community: “Collection of people who …. share a
common (digital geographic information) language and common
(spatial feature) definitions” (OGC Inc.)
• Interoperability – systems and organisations talk to each other
• Syntactic - exchange data – common formats protocols
• Semantic - interpret information – models and vocabs
• Standards development – ISO, OGC, W3C
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5. Spatial Information Infrastructures
• Socio-technical infrastructure
• Institutional - policy, standards, people, practices
• Technical - information, software, hardware
• Information
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Government-led, authoritative information
Web & standards based
Discover & download
YAP
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6. Here comes everyone
Open Street Map
‘Prosumers’
Peer-production
VGI
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7. Everything is related to everything else
“Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more
related than distant things.” (Tobler 1970)
New ways of visualizing, understanding the world
© Copyright SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of
Michigan).
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8. Mapping social networks
CC by Eric Fischer
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9. Interoperable Systems Research
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Design of (spatial) information infrastructure
Information-centric design
Institutional context – socio-political, business, policy legal,
Semantic technologies
spatial
Use
Discover Access, Extract Transform Load
Discover
Access
Extract, Transform, Load
Time and effort
Understand
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Use
Understand

10. Environment & Earth-science
• Minerals Down-under
• AWRIS – Geofabric
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11. Spatially enabled Social
Protection
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12. Social Protection in Indonesia
• Multi-sectoral information
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Reliable
Uptodate
Timely
Integrated
Useable
Social Protection
preventing, managing, and overcoming situations that
adversely affect people’s well being[1]
- policies & programs to reduce poverty / vulnerability
- reducing exposure, enhancing capacity to manage risks
1United
Nations Research Institute For Social Development
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13. One real world feature - multiple representations
Geospatial information
Gazetteer ID - 002234
West Nusa Tenggara
Spatial
Identifier
Reference
Framework
Statistical information
(Implicitly geospatial)
UNSTATS
Name
GRP’08 $
IND03
NTB
8,080
IND05
NTT
4,769
BPS-ID
GER ‘08
Tpop’10
003
Bureau of Stats - 003
Name
Nusa Tenggara Barat
111.08
1,318,840
005
Nusa Tenggara Timur
112.09
335,805
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
Multiple - names, identifiers, geometries, versions
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14. SIRF – spatial books for the web
Agency A
Statistics
Agency B
Treasury
Agency C
Welfare
API
API
API
Statistical
Information
User
Linked
Data
Web
Spatial
Information
SIRF
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http://id.data.gov.au/id/AusGaz2010/ NSW56500
Same as
http://linkedgeodata.org/triplify/node26469586
National
Spatial Data
Infrastructure

15. Where are we SIRFing?
In Indonesia
• Government
• Badan Informasi Geospasial (BIG)
• InaSDI
• TNP2K
• UN
• Global Pulse
• OSM
In Australia
• MyMaps Australia Gazetteer
• OSP, GA, CGNA, ANDS
Globally
• UNSDI
• UNCITO
• UNGEGN
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Community linkages
• Spatial – statistical
• Formal – information
• Horizontal
- domains
- countries
• Vertical
- states-national
- member states to UN
• Research – operations

16. UNGIWG
UN Secretary
General
(40+ UN agencies)
UN Stats
UNSDI
(CoE)
UN GGIM
UNGEGN
UN CITO
Assist Sec. Gen.
Global Pulse
(Pulse Lab)
InaSDI
(Indonesia)
Gazetteer
Project
14 GoI
Ministries
BIG
Agreement
Agreement
AusAID
Funding
agreement
GA
(Australia)
OSP (RET)
(Australia)
UK Location
(DEFRA)
CGNA
(Australia)
UNEP
Eye on
Earth
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EU JRC
INSPIRE
(European SDI)
BoM
NE2I
(Australia)
ANDS
(Australia)
Australian Gazetteer
(SDI activities)

17. Key enablers – Openness
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Open data
Open standards
Open source
Open Government
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Innovating
Adopt and adapt
Working with the crowd
A legislative framework
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18. Innovation – handling the social dimension
• Leveraging existing infrastructure
• Evolution not revolution
• Data providers – no change underlying
business process/systems
• Data Users – continue to use preferred data
• Convergence
• The power of the crowd
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19. Summary
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Spatial identifiers common reference
SIRF – community infrastructure to links information resource
Understand and leverage socio-political context
Technology to support and encourage the right behaviors
‘Thinking outside the polygon’
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20. Thank you
CSIRO Land and Water
Paul Box
Interoperable Systems Research Team
Leader | SIRF Project Leader
t +61 2 9123 4567
e paul.j.box@csiro.au
w www.csiro.au/gazetteer
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