1. ® Hosted and Sponsored by Silver Sponsors Copyright © 2011Open Geospatial Consortium 79th OGC Technical Committee Brussels Belgium Tien-Yin Chou, GIS Research Center, FCU November 30, 2011 November 2011 Asia Forum

2. OGC ® Agenda Operation of Asia Forum –Recap on Chartering and Charter Document –Forum portal –Regular meeting RFP for Integration of University Resources on GIScience –Survey on current efforts & resources of Asian universities –Curriculums & training materials –Repository for geospatial datasets across the borders Promotion of OGC Membership in Asia –Identify potential members in Asia

3. OGC ® Recap of Forum Chartering First Thought –Date & Venue: 76 th TC Meeting, 3 Mar 2011 in Bonn, Germany –Attendees: Hitachi, Pusan National University, ITRI, GIS.FCU First Meeting –Date & Venue: 77 th TC Meeting, 16 Jun 2011 in Taichung, Taiwan –Attendees: Japan: Hitachi, Advanced Industrial Science & Technology(AIST) Korea: Pusan Nat. Univ., Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), Eelectronics & Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI) China: Supermap, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Agriculture University, Electronics and Telecom Research Institute(ETRI) Taiwan: Industrial Technology Research Institute(ITRI), GIS.FCU OGC Staff Review & Member Review –6 Jul 2011 by Mark Reichardt, Carl Reed & Steven Ramage –9 Sep 2011 Charter Draft uploaded as a pending document Copyright © 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium

4. OGC ® First Thought in Bonn, Germany Copyright © 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium

5. OGC ® First Meeting in Taichung, Taiwan

6. OGC ® Delegate Speeches in 1 st Meeting Three Delegate Speeches –Update on OGC Related Activities in Japan, by Nobuhiro Ishimaru (Hitachi & AIST) –Geospatial R&D Program in Korean National Spatial Data Infrastructure, by HaeKyong Kang (KRIHS) –Taiwan’s Involvements in OGC, by Jimmy Chou (GIS.FCU) Copyright © 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium

7. OGC ® Delegate Speeches in 1 st Meeting Copyright © 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium

8. OGC ® Charter Document Develop awareness, acceptance and implementation of geospatial interoperability best practices in the region Develop documentation presenting the OGC standards in Asia, and adapted to Asian issues, use cases and organizational features Identify requirements related to Asian needs for introduction into OGC processes for standards development and to optimize any of the OGC Programs Manage an OGC Asian Forum site to support dissemination, discussion and demonstrations Coordinate the organization of Interoperability Day events in Asia annually Improve OGC membership in Asia, emphasizing the new discounted fee structure applicable to emerging nations in the region. Emphasize improving membership involvement of industry, academic and research organizations Copyright © 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium