 OSNI - Iain Greenway Making it happen – beyond the hype
Abstract:
For many years, we have all been talking about Spatial Data Infrastructures, data portals, joined up geography and the like. We have refined visions for SDIs in our parts of the world, and got excited about technological advances.
But the future has now got here – at a European level, the requirements of the INSPIRE Directive have time limits on meeting them; at a national level, the UK Location Strategy is near to Ministerial approval. So we’re all going to have to start delivering the SDIs that we have been talking about.
The presentation will focus on the progress made in Northern Ireland, where a GeoHub will be up and running by the end of March 2008. Other elements already in place include funding arrangements reducing financial barriers to the access to GI, a clear governance structure, and work on enhancing necessary skills.
And all of this is happening at the same time that the official mapping organisation is ceasing to exist as an entity.
What lessons can be drawn from the Northern Ireland experience for other parts of the UK and the world?
Iain Greenway, Chief Survey Officer, Land and Property Services, Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.
Biography:
Iain Greenway is Chief Executive of the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. He holds an M.A. in Engineering from Cambridge University, an M.Sc. in Land Survey from University College London and an MBA from Cranfield University (including study at Macquarie University, Australia). Between 2000 and 2006, Iain was General Manager (Operations & Mapping) of Ordnance Survey Ireland, responsible for management of the operations and mapping technology of the organisation as it underwent profound changes in status, structure, processes and culture. In 1999-2000 he worked in Her Majesty's Treasury in the Secretariat to the Public Services Productivity Panel (PSPP). Between 1986 and 1999 he worked for the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain. His positions during those years included geodetic and topographic survey, strategic planning and pricing, sales and marketing, as well as a number of management consultancy inputs in Swaziland and Lesotho and technical consultancies supporting land reform in eastern Europe. Iain is a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS), a Fellow of the Irish Institution of Surveyors (FIS) and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM). Between 1998 and 2006 he was the head of the RICS delegation to the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG); since 1998 he has been Chair of the FIG Standards Network. He is also a member of the Management and Editorial Boards of the journal Survey Review. He has published a range of articles and papers on geodetic surveys, business and management practices, sales and marketing, and standardisation.
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