Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructures and the Role of Adaptive Governance

Sjoukema, Jaap-Willem; Bregt, A.K.; Crompvoets, Joep

doi:10.3390/ijgi6080254

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“…Richter (2014) studies formal and informal ways of recording information on land ownership in Indian cities in order to reveal the blurred governance space between urban administration and urban society. Sjoukema et al [44] examine the governance history of the SDIs in The Netherlands and in Flanders (Belgium), using the evolution of large-scale base maps as SDI proxies and, effectively, as geo-information tools. Their longitudinal study shows that SDI governance has been adaptive, that governance models (individualist, hierarchist, or egalitarian) did not hold up very long, as they were either not meeting their goals, were not satisfying all stakeholders, or were not in alignment with new visions and ideas.…”

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Geo-Information Tools, Governance, and Wicked Policy Problems

Georgiadou

Reckien

2018

IJGI

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What You See Depends on Where You StandThe emblematic intergovernmental Group of Earth Observations (GEO) sees food, water and energy security, natural hazards, pandemics of infectious diseases, sustainability of key services, poverty, and climate change as societal challenges [1]. In response, GEO is developing an infrastructure of earth observing systems, hardware, and software tools to connect the demand for geo-information with the supply of vast data about the Earth. At the same time, think tanks like the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) observe the complexity and unpredictability of global economic, social, and political developments and develop guidelines to plan and strategize against the odds [2]. We regard the abovementioned societal challenges as wicked policy problems [3]-involving multiple or unknown causes, anticipated and unanticipated effects, and high levels of disagreement among governance stakeholders concerning the nature (and even the existence) of a problem and the appropriateness of solutions. In this Special Issue, we attempt to take the pulse of how we, as geo-information scientists, tackle wicked problems in the global North and South.To get a sense of the number of published articles on the key themes of the Special Issue, we searched the Web of Science for "Tools" AND "GIS" AND "Governance". Figure 1 shows the distribution of the 87 hits. Searching for Methods or Concepts, instead of Tools, brings about 62 and 23 hits, respectively, with a similar distribution. The upward trend in the number of articles in the last few years testifies to a growing interest in the problem and suggests an emergent integration of the "technical" and "social" research clusters in GIScience, which were operating in isolation in the past [4].

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Section: Policy Problems and Geo-information Toolsmentioning

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Geo-Information Tools, Governance, and Wicked Policy Problems

Georgiadou

Reckien

2018

IJGI

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“…The models mentioned in this section were highlighted by Cooper et al [7] and were used to describe a regional SDI (INSPIRE for the European Union) [30] and national SDIs (Canada, Namibia and Ghana). Although Sjoukema et al [31] describe two SDI projects that were financed by utility/power companies, no experiences of corporate-level SDI projects were found.…”

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Design of a Corporate SDI in Power Sector Using a Formal Model

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Geospatial data are essential for the decision-making process. However, obtaining and keeping such data up to date usually require much time and many financial resources. In order to minimize the production costs and incentivize sharing these data, countries are promoting the implementation of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) at the different public administration levels. The International Cartographic Association (ICA) proposes a formal model that describes the main concepts of an SDI based on three of the five viewpoints of the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP). Afterwards, researchers extended ICA's model to describe, more properly, the actors, hierarchical relationship and interactions related to the policies that drive an SDI. However, the proposed extensions are semantically inconsistent with the original proposal. Moreover, the use of ICA's formal model and its extensions has not been assessed yet to specify a corporate-level SDI. This study describes the merger of actors and policies proposed by the ICA and its extensions in order to eliminate differences in the semantics or terminology among them. This unified model was applied to specify a corporate SDI for a large Brazilian corporation, the Minas Gerais Power Company (Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais (Cemig)), which is comprised of about 200 companies in the power sector. The case study presents part of the specification of the five RM-ODP viewpoints, i.e., the three viewpoints featured in ICA's formal model (Enterprise, Information, and Computation) and the other two viewpoints that make up the RM-ODP (Engineering and Technology). The adapted ICA's model proved adequate to describe SDI-Cemig. In addition, the case study may serve as an example of the specification and implementation of new SDIs, not only corporate ones, but also of public agencies at any hierarchical level.

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“…Hendriks, Dessers, and van Hootegem 2012;Vandenbroucke et al 2009) or SDI governance instruments and structures (e.g. Vancauwenberghe and van Loenen 2017;Crompvoets et al 2018;Sjoukema, Bregt, and Crompvoets 2017). This is not surprising, as these are the more tangible appearances of SDIs and SDI governance.…”

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Governance interactions of spatial data infrastructures: an agent-based modelling approach

Sjoukema

Samia

Bregt

et al. 2021

International Journal of Digital Earth

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In order to facilitate and coordinate spatial data sharing and exchange, many organisations have developed spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). SDI governance plays a pivotal role in the development and evolution of an SDI, but as SDIs are complex adaptive systems, governing is a challenge. This research therefore proposes a complexity perspective to SDI governance by exploring the use of agent-based modelling to simulate and examine SDI governance interactions. In this agent-based simulation, we examine interactions between SDI stakeholders, data availability and the effects of different governance styles (hierarchical, network and laissez-faire governance) and budget policies. The simulation shows that it is possible to mimic SDI governance dynamics through agent-based modelling. By running different scenarios, it appears that a network approach is more successful compared to a hierarchical or laissez-faire approach. Expert validation shows that overall the results of the simulation are credible and insightful, although improvements can be made to make the model more realistic. With agent-based modelling, SDI governance becomes more tangible and visible, which facilitates discussion and understanding. Agent-based modelling therefore appears to be a helpful new approach in a better understanding of the complexities and dynamics of SDI governance.

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Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructures and the Role of Adaptive Governance

Cited by 19 publications

References 30 publications

Geo-Information Tools, Governance, and Wicked Policy Problems

Geo-Information Tools, Governance, and Wicked Policy Problems

Design of a Corporate SDI in Power Sector Using a Formal Model

Governance interactions of spatial data infrastructures: an agent-based modelling approach

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