The two-year European Union-funded project called smeSpire, aimed at enabling geo-ICT small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to turn the INSPIRE challenges into business opportunities, is approaching a turning point. Now at the end of its first year, the smeSpire network has grown from 15 to 230 geo-ICT SMEs in 20 countries. It has started the process of drawing up an inventory of gaps in the skill sets that are needed to cost-effectively address all aspects of modern geospatial information management in an e-government setting.
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