The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)(http://www.opengeospatial.org ) and AGISEE, the Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe (http://www.agisee.org) announced that they have established a cooperative relationship topromote the importance of open standards in the development of spatial data infrastructures and raise the awareness of interoperability in South-East Europe.The ultimate goals of the relationship are to create a group of peoplewho will advance innovation and use of standards in the geospatialdomain and to present the interest and requirements of this South-EastEurope group to international standardisation efforts.The two organizations encourage interested persons to join a new mailing list that has been created to:1. Inform members of the mailing list about issues of standardisationin the geospatial domain and related domains;2. Inform members about new standards developments, innovations and implementations;3. Provide a forum for the exchange of information and experience.Interested people are invited to open the following link and registerto the mailing list:https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/agisee.forum . The mailing list will be mainly in English to enable participation fromall countries in the region, but posts in national languages such asBulgarian are nevertheless welcome.
