14. Sächsisches GI/GIS/SDI-Forum - GI2014

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INSPIRE as a businesscase for
European geo-ICT SMEs…?
Jitka Faugnerová
CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency
GI2014 – GI/GIS/GDI – Forum
Dresden, 30.4.2014

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Basic project information
15 partners
12 EU member states
05/2012- 05/2014
COUNTRY
BELGIUM
BULGARIA
CYPRUS
CZECH REPUBLIC
GERMANY
GREECE
ITALY
LITHUANIA
MALTA
SLOVAKIA
SPAIN
UNITED KINGDOM

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Basic project information

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Why a project aimed to SMEs?
• Assessment of market potential for geo-ICT
SMEs in relation to INSPIRE
• Identification of reasons of limited involvement
in INSPIRE implementation
• Development of tools supporting SMEs in their
possible INSPIRE business

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What has been done in the project?
• Report for the European Commission describing
SMEs participation in INSPIRE implemenation
• Set of tools available on project website
• Dissemination activities – smeSpire workshops,
smeSpire day

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European network of geo-ICT SMEs
Surveyed SMES – inputs from project
members (start of the project)
smeSpire network – input from SMEs
(web questionnaire/adhesion form)
smeSpire network non SMEs – (public
authorities, universities, NGOs…)

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How to join the network of SMEs?

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Compilation of the report
Short web
questionnaires
(joining the SME
database after
filling in)
Depth interviews:
5 SMEs
3 LMOs
1 INSPIRE national contact point
1 national geoinformation association
REPORT for EU
Report available:
http://www.smespire.eu/publications_publikacie-media_sk/?did=32
Country reports

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Size of SMEs – number of employees
More than half of the European SMEs is a size of „micro“
Employees Year turnover
Medium <250 ≤ € 50 mil
Small < 50 ≤ € 10 mil
Micro < 10 ≤ € 2 mil

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MAIN ACTIVITIES
• 82 % interviewed SMEs define themselves as "ICT„
• 18 % is focused on “Architectural and engineering”
(8.5%), “Scientific and technical activities” (6.3%) and
“Construction and civil engineering” (1.4%)
YEAR OF FOUNDATION
• 34 % between 1990-1999
• 41 % between 2000 - 2009
• 12 % after year 2010
Main activities and year of foundation

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Customers of SMEs
Half of the SMEs‘ customers are regional and local authorities
60 % of SMEs base their revenue on public
sector (mainly local or national governments)

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MAIN ACTIVITIES
• 40 % ‘users’ of spatial information
• 20% data modeling or data transformation
• 27% developing client applications
• 6% develop network service solutions
ISO CERTIFICATION
• 30% of companies are ISO9000 certified: this is tightly coupled to
public procurement procedures, seen as obstacle by ‘micro’ and
‘small’ companies due to costs and bureaucracy
OPEN SOURCE
• 60% of companies are very competent on Open Source Software;
SOA is well known, while Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) is
not; mobile applications are still a challenge
Activities, ISO certification, open source

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INSPIRE INVOLVEMENT
• Just one-third of companies are already involved in some
INSPIRE-related activities
KNOWLEDGE OF INSPIRE
• General objectives and principles are well known;
regulations about “Data” and “Network services” are
less known.
• Competences needed to implement INSPIRE are
available at private sector level, covering the whole
range of activities.
SMEs & INSPIRE

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SMEs & INSPIRE
INVOLVEMENT IN INSPIRE – IN DETAIL
• More than 25% in development of view services
• More than 25% in development data modeling
• More than 20% metadata catalogues
• Less than 12% test suits
• Less than 10% schema/data transformation

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INSPIRE THEME PERCENTAGE
III.4 LAND USE 57%
I.6 CADASTRAL PARCELS 50%
II.2 LAND COVER 47%
III.2 BUILDINGS 46%
II.3 ORTHOIMAGINERY 45%
II.1 ELEVATION 44%
I.6 TRANSPORT NETWORKS 43%
I.5 ADDRESSES 42%
III.6 UTILITY AND GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES 42%
Main INSPIRE themes for business

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BARRIERS TO INOVATION DEFINED BY SMEs
• limited access to data: the licenses for re-use spatial
data and the costs curb innovation
• difficulties in entering or participating in EU co-funded
projects (due to the complexity of bureaucracy and time
requested to prepare administrative documents)
Main obstacles
MAIN OBSTACLES IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT
• Only 14% of the overall EC budget for ICT FP7 projects
was received by SMEs, while 21% went to Large
Enterprises (2007-2011)1.
• Almost half of companies see the dominance of the
market by established enterprises as the main barrier.

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Importance of INSPIRE

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INSPIRE Coordinating committe
21 members

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Coordinating committe and working groups
CZECH INSPIRE
COORDINATING
COMMITTEE
DATA, DATA QUALITY
SERVICES, GEOPORTALS
METADATA, CATALOGUES
DATA SHARING, LEGISLATION
MONITORING
EDUCATION

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Implementation - technical aspects
• METADATA Increase of data and services available (from
about 250 metadata records publicly available in 2008 to
1.764 in 2014 (yesterday)) – many data providers started
to use metadata after INSPIRE Directive
• SERVICES Massive increase of use of view services (e.g.
cadaster data – indicator „use of service“ from 36,5 mil
in 2009 to 708 mil in 2012) – many other data providers
started to make their data available through services
after INSPIRE Directive
• DATA Large involvement in data specs testing (remaining
doubts about the feasibility of harmonization – mainly
due to the large volume of time and personal needed)

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Implementation non - technical aspects
• Data sharing arrangements – e.g. after massive
increase of usage of their data Czech Office for
Surveying, Mapping and Cadaster changed their
licences – usage of basic and specific INSPIRE
licences
• Involvement of various stakeholders
– Data providers get more involved – nearly 500
contacts in INSPIRE mailing list
– 29 responses to the INSPIRE evaluation
questionnaire

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……BUT DO WE HAVE A STRATEGY….?

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INSPIRE IMPLEMENTATION
STRATEGY
• 7 years after…. the coordinating
committee agreed on content
of this strategy
• Coordinated by Ministry of the
Environment
• Preparation 01-10/2014
Czech GIS strategies
STRATEGY FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR
SPATIAL INFORMATION IN
THE CZECH REPUBLIC 2020
• Decided by government
in 11/2012
• Coordinated by Ministry
of interior
• Preparation 11/2012 -
09/2014

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Three groups of goals
• To fulfil requirements from the INSPIRE directive
• By implementing INSPIRE support other state
strategies
• By implementing INSPIRE support mainly the
decision making processes of the Ministry of the
Environment
INSPIRE implementation strategy
• Forsees further development and
use of INSPIRE geoportal

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GeoInfoStrategy (State strategy)
4 main goals
• Providing guaranteed state services in order
to support effective use of spatial
information for public administration
activities and for general public
• Building a national infrastructure for
creating, managing and linking data
resources
• Improvement and further development of
the data resources for their use by the
public administration and general public
• Coordination and development of general
arrangements for management and use of
spatial data
State services
Building NSDI
State data
Legislation/
coordination

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GeoInfoStrategy (State strategy)
• Forsees creation and update of state required
data (required by state = paid by state)
• Uses some of the INSPIRE requirements and
supports their implementation where practicable
• Includes INSPIRE as a sub-part of this national
spatial data infrastructure
• Might lead to creation of national spatial data
infrastructure law
• Might lead to creation of National geoportal

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Conclusions
For most of the Czech
SMEs INSPIRE does not
create new business
opportunities
…or only to a small
number of SMEs
?

28. Thank you for your attention
Jitka Faugnerová
jitka.faugnerova@cenia.cz
www.cenia.cz
http://inspire.gov.cz
http://geportal.gov.cz
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