NESIS - a Network to enhance a European Environmental Shared and Interoperable Information System

In a framework oriented by the SEIS communication, the NESIS Network aims to promote the uptake of ICT solutions to address the basic problems faced by public authorities in providing information related to monitoring and reporting environmental impacts and threats. The Network targets to leverage the stakeholders’ community, starting from EIONET and its experience to develop a widely agreed action plan for SEIS as a distributed, standardsbased infrastructure for spatial and non-spatial environmental information, based on the principles of shared access rather than centralized reporting. NESIS analyses the current State of Play of environmental information systems and services in Europe and collects Best Practices, to finally derive and discuss an ICT roadmap for SEIS implementation The work plan is organised along two years and a half: collection and analysis of practices on environmental information management, definition of an ICT roadmap for SEIS implementation, validation of it by the partners and a group of stakeholders from different Countries, preparation of the network follow-up, with additional involvement of the stakeholders and an impact assessment of the roadmap at national level. The expected impact is the creation of a collaborative framework to share Best Practice on ICT for environmental data management and on the related procedures for an effective use of the SEIS Framework. In the process of SEIS implementation NESIS intends to accompany the process as “human and organisation” component. The project has performed in its first phase a survey about the State of Play in management environmental data at national level, following the methodology of the INSPIRE State of Play approach, as well as has started collecting “good practices” of ICT solutions for managing environmental data.

ISBN:978-80-210-4824-9

Jaar van publicatie:2009