Development of National Spatial Decision Support Framework For Sustainable Development
Rania Elsayed Ibrahim
National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt
raniaelsayed@narss.sci.eg | Amr Elramly
National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt
amrelramly@hotmail.com |
Abstract
Background: The decision-making process in an organization succeeds when it is comprehensive, reliable, and done in a transparent manner between the departmental management as well as the stakeholders. It also requires complete and correct data to feed the decision process tools and applications.
Methods: We designed a socioeconomic approach to build the National Spatial Decision Support System and provide support for the national economy development. The approach is proposing web based platforms for collaboration between government authorities, industry experts and the public. The collaboration is implemented by building one platform for the experts called the Experts’ Collaboration Portal and another platform for the public called the Geospatial Businesses Portal (GBP). Both portals are considered as an envelope on top of the e-government services and are the sources of big data from the public and the industry, which represent all areas of the national economy and the public assets.
Results: National Collaboration for Sustainable Development Spatial Decision Support Portal (NCSD-SDSP) is designed based on previous practices in NARSSGeoPortal to support the national spatial data sharing between the government authorities for the natural and human resources and all other areas of the Egyptian economy. The system provides tools that accommodate “big data” and verify the completeness and correctness of the spatial data. The system also facilitates the data sharing and consolidation, spatial analysis and modeling, and the decision support tools. While NCSD-SDSP is designed to capture all required standard policies and regulations for the data sharing, it is also the tool for policy automation, and metadata handling.
Conclusion: This paper proposes a national collaboration framework based on socioeconomic approach to build the national geospatial data infrastructures and facilitate public information channels that provides sustainable, complete, and correct national resources data (big data) flow required to support the stakeholders’ decision-making and the national sustainable development management.
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Keywords
knowledge-based system; National Spatial Decision Support framework; socioeconomic approach; Sustainable development; National Collaboration.
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