While buzzwords and slogans often don't do justice to the essence of a message, they sometimes hit the nail right on the head. My favourite one at the moment for our sector is e-gov + g-gov = i-gov. This formula, devised by Ingrid Vanden Berghe, president of EuroGraphics and executive director of the National Mapping Agency of Belgium, really says it all: governments intent on improving their efficiency and cost focus while at the same time meeting growing citizen requirements are increasingly putting e-tools and applications in place. By adding geoinformation to these e-gov efforts, they become better-informed governments which in turn creates better societies. Could there be any clearer way of formulating that simple relationship? Ingrid Vanden Berghe doesn't think so. She is a firm believer that geoinformation should be placed at the heart of the equation, to make policymakers' decisions easier, more effective and more efficient while contributing to a better world.
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