Chair: Pia Dahl Højgaard Discussant: David Egiashvili International Workshop of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on Land Administration Real property cadastre and registration services in the ECE region: the impact of “E-government” reforms Minsk, 8 - 9 June 2010 SESSION IV Geospatial data (map material) as a base for National integration of Spatial Data Infrastructure. Chair: Pia Dahl Højgaard Discussant: David Egiashvili

Presentations National Integration of Spatial Data Infrastructure – Mr. Sergey A. Levchik, Belarus GIS modeling of the Agricultural Land Market of Ukraine – Mr. Nikolay I. Kobets, Ukraine Register of Territorial Identification, Addresses and Real Estate. Digital Map of Public Administation - Mr. Vit Suchanek, Czech Republic E-Government – Reforms and Innovations: Registration, Cadastre and NSDI – Mr. Batu Gvasalia, Georgia e-Land Administration – Mr. Rik Wouters, Netherlands

Conclusions NSDI is an enabler for e-Government Government has an obligation to facilitate NSDI Legal and economic transactions Key registers with one database and one responsible agency Challenges Technical issues Organisational issues Interoperability

Conclusions Lessons learned: Keep it simple and be certain of the purpose Czech, ambitious plan for building base registers: mutual dependencies -> demanding and complex Belarus, establish small targeted local SDIs which can later be included in NSDI Important that data owners realize the benefits – to themselves and society

Conclusions Use of GIS and NSDI To model agricultural land market in Ukraine – very extensive use of GIS Land, Real Estate Property and Administrative and Territorial divisions in Belarus Provide public administration with reference data - RTIARE in Czech Republic Interactive maps in Georgia – and other spatial analysis applications 6 key registers in Netherlands – numerous applications provided based on the NSDI, ex. Digital land use plans, subsurface infrastructures