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	  Conference and Seminar Proceedings
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	    Regional Challenges, Benefits and Opportunities of 
		Exchanging Geodetic Data
		17-19 October 2017, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan  
		[Program]
		The list of presentations:
		
			- Mr. Graeme Blick (New Zealand) - 
			What are the social, technical, environmental and economic benefits 
			and opportunities of accessing and sharing geodetic data? 
 Overview – provided insights into why geodetic data exchanging 
			/ sharing is beneficial to various sectors from a technical, 
			societal and scientific perspective.  It was also mentioned that 
			geodetic data assists disaster risk reduction; fulfils a broader 
			“community” responsibility of information sharing and knowledge 
			building; and that data sharing is a pathway for a modernised Global 
			Geodetic Reference Frame (GGRF) and capacity development.
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- Mr. Rob Sarib (Australia) - 
			Exchanging and Sharing Geodetic Data 
 Overview - provide insight into data sharing terminologies and 
			policy development; includes principles, rationale for data sharing 
			and a structure of a policy .
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- Dr. John Dawson (Australia) - Geodetic Data Sharing 
			and Formats
 Overview – using Australia as an example this presentation explained 
			the geodetic data types and formats that should be shared, and how 
			it can be shared.  In particular GNSS static data, GNSS real time 
			data streams, sea level and tidal data, and gravity data.
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- Mr. Neil Ashcroft (Singapore) - Exchanging and 
			Sharing Geodetic Data
 Overview - discussed the importance of standards to under write the 
			ability to share geodetic data between organisations.
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- Mr. Peter Hedlund (United Kingdom) - Spatially 
			Connected Government in Great Britain
 Overview – gave to examples of how open data standards and sharing 
			of the Ordinance Survey Reference Network allowed agencies in the UK 
			to benefit from using an “active” network as a definitive source of 
			positional truth.
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- Mr. Teo CheeHai (United Nations) - Compendium on 
			Licensing of Geospatial Information:Facilitating Data Sharing of 
			Geodetic Data 
 Overview - linked the importance of data sharing to the 2030 Agenda 
			of Sustainable Development and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk 
			Management. The presentation also overviewed the UN-GGIM Compendium 
			on Licensing Geospatial Information, and addressed the release of 
			geospatial information (in this case geodetic data) under an “open” 
			license.
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- Dr. John Dawson (Australia) - Geodetic Data Sharing 
			and Formats 
 Overview – reviewed the data sharing 
			challenges as measured in the 2013 UN-GGIM GGRF Global 
			Questionnaire.
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- Mr. Basara Miyahara (Japan) - 
			Summary of UN-GGIM-AP questionnaire on geodetic data sharing
			
 Overview – ummarised the UN GGIM AP responses 
			from past and present questionnaires which then showed the current 
			state of play of geodetic data sharing, and any trends or major 
			obstacles in the region.
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- Mr. Mikael Lilje (Sweden) - Data Sharing in Europe
 Overview - delivered a presentation on the various Nordic and global 
			data sharing initiatives and agreements (including INSPIRE) that 
			Sweden are involved in.   It also highlighted a regional and formal 
			approach to sharing spatial information between countries.
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