[GSDI Legal Econ] [Fwd: socio economic impact of SDI in Catalonia Report published today]

[Roger Longhorn]

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Roger

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Subject: 	socio economic impact of SDI in Catalonia Report published today
Date: 	Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:44:27 +0200
From: 	Max Craglia <massimo.craglia at jrc.it>
To: 	<EGIP at jrc.it>


See

http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/reports/Study_reports/catalonia_impact_study_report.pdf

>Publication details:
>
>Title: 
>The Socio-Economic Impact of the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Catalonia
>
>Abstract: 
>This report presents the finding of a study undertaken in 2007 by the
Centre
>of Land Policy and Valuations of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
on
>the socio-economic impact of the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) of
>Catalonia. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission commissioned
>the study and recommended the methodology. The study is based on a sample of
>20 local authorities participating in the Catalan SDI, together with 3
>control local authorities not participating in the SDI, and 15 end-user
>organisations, of which 12 are private companies operating in the Geographic
>Information (GI) sector, and 3 are large institutional users of GI. The
>study found that the total direct cost of establishing and operating the
>Catalan SDI (IDEC) over a five year period (2002-06) was of  Euros 1.5
>million, of which Euro 325,000 for each of the first two years (2002-03)
>necessary to launch the SDI, and Euros 283,000 per annum to operate and
>develop the infrastructure in the three subsequent years (2004-06). Human
>resources represented 76% of the costs during the launch period (the rest
>being capital investment), and 91% during operation. 
>
>The economic benefits in terms of increased internal
>efficiency of local public administrations for 2006 alone exceed Euros 2.6
>million per year. Therefore the study concludes that the total investment to
>set up the IDEC and develop it over a four year period (2002-05) is
>recovered in just over 6 months. Wider socio-economic benefits have also
>been identified but not quantified. In particular, the study indicates that
>web-based spatial services allow smaller local authorities to narrow the
>digital divide with larger ones in the provision of services to citizens and
>companies. The illustrative case-study of the difference between two local
>communes, one which enables citizens to query their cadastral parcels and
>get all the necessary planning and building permission on line, while the
>other requires the process to be done by hand after making an appointment
>with the local technician illustrates well the opportunities offered by the
>IDEC. In addition to evaluating the socio-economic impact of the SDI in
>Catalonia, the study reflects on the indicators used for the study and the
>limitations encountered in collecting the necessary information, with
>suggestions for future work in this important field of research.  
>

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