Award winning European SDI Best Practice

08 December 2009, 9:20am

Forth Valley GIS is proud to announce its success at the recent European SDI Best Practice Awards 2009. Forth Valley GIS was selected from 135 entries across 26 European countries as a best practice example of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) – a business framework that enables ready access to geographic information to support the improved delivery of public services.

The SDI Best Practice Award is part of the eSDI-Net+ project, a thematic network co-funded by the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission. It aims to bring together key European SDI stakeholders to share knowledge and to provide a platform for communication and knowledge exchange at all levels, from local to global.

Alan Moore, Chief Executive, FVGIS receiving Award Alan Moore, Chief Executive said, “We are very proud to receive this Best Practice Award – this is a significant accomplishment within a European-wide context and reflects achievements of the whole team and support from our founding shareholders”.

The eSDI-NET+ network identifies working, accessible and intelligible solutions, as it communicates the purpose and aims of INSPIRE – the European Directive that aims to enable the sharing of geographic information among public sector organisations and facilitate better public access to spatial information across Europe.

Forth Valley GIS has established a unique, innovative, mature SDI solution – providing shared service access to geographic information across 3 local authorities and supporting information sharing with key community planning partners such as Local Government, Police, Health and Fire & Rescue services. The solution currently provides online access to over 1,000 different layers of geographic information across the Forth Valley area in Central Scotland.

About Forth Valley GIS
Forth Valley GIS is a pioneering GIS company founded by Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling Councils with a reputation for providing innovative, high quality GIS services and solutions to the public sector and its partners. We strongly promote the benefits of shared services that maximise the potential of geographic information to enable efficient service delivery and innovative business improvements.

Our team of 28 staff bring extensive technical, business and systems skills and experience. Our range of services covers the full GIS lifecycle, from strategy development through solutions development, integration, data management, implementation, training and support. We have a longstanding reputation for innovation, quality, professionalism and strong customer care in the delivery of GIS services to the public sector exemplified by a track record of success with many customers at local, regional and national levels.

We uniquely offer a breadth and depth of GIS technical and consultancy skills that extend across all aspects of corporate GIS, spatial data management, web and desktop GIS development. We bring supplier independence combined with expert knowledge of a wide range of GIS system and database solutions, commercial and open source, as well as extensive experience working with digital data products from many 3rd party suppliers.

www.forthvalleygis.co.uk

Further information on the Award

GeoConnexion UK