Andrade, Rafael Espín, PhD. is Titular Professor of the Technological Management Studies Centre in the Polytechnic University Jose Antonio Echeverria CUJAE. Coordinator of the Iberian American Network of Knowledge Discovering Eureka Iberoamerica and Representative of Cuba in Association for Advancement of Modelling & Simulation in Enterprises (AMSE) Board. He is graduated in Mathematics from the Havana University, Master in Optimization and Decision Theory from CUJAE, PhD in Industrial Engineering from CUJAE and has made Postdoctoral Studies about Business Informatics in the Otto von Guerick University of Magdeburg, Germany. Bregt, Arnold K. is Professor of Geo-information Science at the Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Since 2006 he is also scientific director of the space foe geo-information innovation program. Following more than 20 years of experience in the field of GIS research and applications, his current areas of interest are spatial data quality, dynamic modeling of land use change and spatial data infrastructures. He holds a MSc and a PhD degree from the Wageningen University. Budhathoki, Nama Raj is a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests lie in socio-technical aspects of geographic information systems and infrastructures. These interests are rooted in several years of his wok experience in building and implementing information systems prior joining to the doctoral program. For the doctoral dissertation, he is studying the recent phenomenon of volunteered geographic information (VGI) to understand its potentials in augmenting the spatial data infrastructures. Castelein, Watse T. holds a degree in environmental planning and design and Geoinformation Science both from Wageningen University. His professional career started in 2003 at the European Commission where he worked on the preparation of the INSPIRE directive. From 2005 he is working for Wageningen University, Centre for Geo-information as researcher in the agri-evironmental and SDI domain. Since 2007 he is seconded as SDI expert to Geonovum and is working on the development and monitoring of the Dutch SDI and the implementation of the INSPIRE directive in the Netherlands. Delgado Fernández, Mercedes, PhD. She is Titular Professor, Head of the Industrial Engineering Faculty, Chair of the Industrial Career in the Polytechnic University CUJAE and member of the Industrial Engineering National Tribunal staff. She has a PhD in Quality Management in Industrial Engineering. She has coordinated several international projects on Applied Statistics in the last 10 years for the European Union and Spain. De Man, W.H. Erik. Dr. de Man (1943) recently retired from the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation 399
(ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands. After pioneering the GIS field over three decades ago he gradually focused his research on socio-technical approaches to GI technology, including cultural and institutional aspects, and GI management in multi-level governance. He holds a PhD degree in public administration. Dufourmont, Hans. With a master in Geography, Hans Dufourmont joined the Belgian Science Policy Office in 1985, in order to set up a national R&D program for satellite remote sensing. In 1997, he joined GIS-Flanders, where he became responsible for GI-policy development, which yielded one of the early legislative frameworks for a Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure. In 2003, he joined the Eurostat GISCO team in order to help preparing the INSPIRE directive. Eelderink, Lyande is currently working as a project officer at the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in The Netherlands. As a project officer at ITC, she deals with many international and national projects in the field of GIS and Remote Sensing. She successfully finished the GIMA MSc in 2006. Her MSc thesis focused on key variables to evaluate SDI's in developing countries. Georgiadou, Yola is Professor of geo-information for governance at the international institute for geo-information science and earth observation (ITC), The Netherlands. Her research interests are geospatial coordination in government, social implications of spatial data infrastructures and the use of geo-information in policy processes. Giff, Garfield is a Geo-Information Management Consultant who specializes in the socio-political and economic issues associated with geo-information collection, maintenance and distribution. Dr. Giff is a well published author on the subjects of SDI/GIS justification (ROI and performance indicators), access policies on geo-information, geo-information pricing policies and the funding of the implementation and maintenance of SDIs and GISs. Grus, Lukasz has graduated in Land-use planning at Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Poland and in Geo-information Science at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Lukasz is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Geo-information, Wageningen University in The Netherlands. The aim of his research is to develop a framework to assess National SDIs. Janssen, Katleen is a legal researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. She specialises in legal matters regarding public sector information and spatial data, including access, re-use, intellectual property rights, etc. She is a frequent speaker on PSI and SDI matters on national and international conferences. She is cochair of the INSPIRE drafting team for the implementing rules on data and service sharing. 400
A Multi-View Framework to Assess SDIs Koerten, Henk is a PhD Candidate at Delft University of Technology. Having a background in organization sociology, he is preparing a dissertation on the organizational aspects of the Dutch geoinformation community. Lance, Kate holds a master's degree in Forestry from Yale University and is currently working on her PhD at the International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC) and Wageningen University, Centre for Geo-Information in The Netherlands. The focus of her research is on cross-agency alignment and evaluation of geospatial investments. She draws upon her work experience supporting spatial data infrastructure (SDI) in Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Meerkerk, Jacqueline. Since May 2004 Jacqueline Meerkerk is programme director of the innovation programme Space for Geo-Information (Ruimte voor Geo-Informatie, RGI). The mission of the RGI programme is: to improve and innovate the geo-information infrastructure so that it can be adequately and efficiently managed and so that it can empower the business community. Before these she has been working at two management consultancy companies where she was involved in several geoinformation projects. Nedović-Budić, Zorica is a Professor of urban planning and geographic information systems (GIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Her ongoing research interests are in the development and utility of SDI and comparative planning practice and urban development in transitional societies and post-communist cities. She has published extensively in referred journals and books and has recently co-edited a book Urban Mosaic of Post-socialist Cities (Springer, 2006). Dr. Nedovic-Budic served on the Board of Directors of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (JURISA) and University Consortium of Geographic Information Science, and as a co-editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association book reviews. She is currently an editorial board member for the International Journal of SDI Research, URISA Journal, and Territorium. Pinto, Jeffrey K. is the Andrew Morrow and Elizabeth Lee Black Chair in Management of Technology at the Sam and Irene Black School of Business, Penn State Erie. His primary research interests are in the fields of the management and diffusion of innovation, and project management. Dr. Pinto is the author of 23 books and numerous research papers and presentations. His most recent work includes the second edition of Managing Geographic Information Systems (Guilford Press, 2008), co-authored with Nancy Obermeyer and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on the Management of Projects (Oxford University Press), co-edited with Peter Morris and Jonas Soderlund. He is a department editor for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and serves on the editorial board of URISA Journal. 401
Steudler, Daniel graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1983, earned the Swiss license for land surveyor in 1985, and completed a MSc Eng. degree at the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 1991. Since 1991, he is working with the Swiss Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying with the responsibilities of supervising and consulting Swiss Cantons in organizational, financial, technical, and operational matters in cadastral surveying. Since 1994, he is involved in the activities of FIG-Commission 7 as a working group secretary until 2002. He was co-author of the publications "Cadastre 2014" and "Benchmarking Cadastral Systems". He became the official Swiss delegate to Commission 7 in 2003. Daniel completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2004 and then joined again the Swiss Federal Directorate for Cadastral Surveying and is since responsible for a national address data project and the development of international cooperation. He is currently chair of the working group "Application of Innovative Technology in Land Administration" within FIG-Commission 7 and chair of the working group "Cadastral surveying - response to relevant European legislation" of the EuroGeographics Expert Group on Cadastre and Land Registry. Stoter, Jantien graduated in Physical Geography at Utrecht University in 1995. She started her work as a GIS specialist at various organisations. Stoter's university career started in 1999 as an Assistant Professor in GIS applications, Delft University of Technology. In 2004 she finished her PhD on 3D cadastre in Delft and started as Assistant Professor at the Geo- Information Processing department of ITC, Enschede. Since January 2006 she holds the position of Associate Professor at ITC. Her main research and education responsibilities are usability, data integration, generalisation, multiscale databases and 3D. Vandenbroucke, Danny is Senior Research Associate and Phd at the Spatial Applications Division of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is involved in the INSPIRE implementation process: as senior consultant and project leader of the INSPIRE State of Play project and as Co-chair of the INSPIRE Drafting Team on monitoring and reporting. Danny Vandenbroucke is also elected member of the Council and Secretary of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (2005-2009, AGILE). Van Orshoven, Jos is associate professor in geographic information science and technology (GI S&T) at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. His research deals with GI S&T for natural resources assessment and agricultural monitoring. A special focus is on Spatial Decision Support Systems and Spatial Data Infrastructures. From 2002 onwards, his SDI-related research was fostered by involvement in the EC s INSPIRE-state-of-play studies. Van Rij, Evelien (MSC, LL M) studied Dutch Law at Leiden University, and Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis & Management at Delft University of Technology. In 2004, she started her PhD research on 402
A Multi-View Framework to Assess SDIs institutions for internalizing landscape values in urban-rural interplay processes at the OTB Research Institute of Delft University of Technology. In December 2008 she will defend her PhD and then start to work as an assistant professor in law at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of the Delft University of Technology. Williamson, Ian is Professor in Surveying and Land Information, and a member of the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration. He is Chair, Working Group 3 (Spatially Enabled Government) of the United Nations sponsored Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and Pacific (PCGIAP). He was Chairman of Commission 7 (Cadastre and Land Management) of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) 1994-98 and Director, United Nations Liaison 1998-2002. His teaching and research interests are concerned with designing, building and managing land administration, cadastral, and land and geographic information systems in both developed and developing countries. He has consulted and published widely within these areas. Zambon, Marie-Louise joined IGN-France (the National Mapping Agency) in 1989. Between 1999 and 2007 she was the Quality Management Expert at IGN and member of the Expert Group on Quality of EuroGeographics. Since 2005 she is the chair of the INSPIRE Drafting Team on Monitoring and Reporting. 403