AGISEE, the Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe, in 2011, enters into its seventh year of existence pursuing its overall goal to support the needs of all groups of the society in South-East Europe for access to, sharing and using geographic information (GI). AGISEE works towards the development of an infrastructure that allows users and providers globally and regionally to distribute and access GI independent of scale, formats and standards. AGISEE has been established in October 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria, as a non-for-profit organization.
It draws on its membership from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. The vision of AGISEE is to establish Spatial Data Infrastructures in the region and to enable sharing of data for the benefit of the economic development of the region. The association has a double role: firstly in informing members about relevant issues such as technology development, standards, best practice cases of using GI, world-wide actors, European initiatives, legal environment in member countries and abroad, possibilities to obtain financing; secondly in promoting the role of GI in society and economy, in SouthEast Europe and elsewhere and to lobby for better use of spatial data. Read More
