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This leads to the conclusion that within the area of GIS and SDI can be especially interesting
to study:
– Cooperation within the ‘Action’ layer, and
– Cooperation between the layers ‘Decisions’ and ‘Actions’.
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Figure 3: Prime focus on actions between people in different organisations –
not on the prerequisites.
Talk
Decisions
Action
EU
Directives
Standards
5. SWEDISH EXPERIENCE
National
strategies
Organisational
models
Organisation A Organisation B
Project
plans
Network
models
In Sweden the handling of, for instance, cadastral information and information about
physical plans and regulations depends on cooperation between central governmental
authorities, local (municipal) authorities and private firms. Large projects have been
carried out during the last decade presupposing working cooperation, for example the
new national cadastral index map.
Although projects in this field have been at least partly successful, some severe problems
have occurred. These related to time schedules, costs and daily communication
between the participating organisations. This happened despite good planning and the
required prerequisites in place (strategies, written agreements, project plans, technical
solutions, financing, key personnel). It has led to the suspicion that existing problems
are complex and relate problems of cooperation.
From a Swedish perspective it is important to have better knowledge of how to deal
with problems of this nature. National strategies point to large future projects based on
SDI and new types of services where cooperation between growing numbers of organisations
can be a decisive factor. Projects already carried out provide a good base
for case studies using the concepts of cooperation broadly outlined in this article.
6. CONCLUSION
Results so far indicate that cooperation as a concept is generally not fully understood
within the SDI context. In many cases cooperation can be a decisive factor for realising
efficient ‘SDI-based networks’. There are indications that effective cooperation at ‘base