Last year the INSPIRE reps were indicating that about 55% of the 4 year budget had been committed by DeFRA and other participants. There was optimism about gaining support from others for the remainder. Now it appears that the crunch has hit budgets within government departments and the funding commitment is down to 33%. This has forced a rethink and may result in a slimmed down Location Council as apparently there is no seat at […]
Daily Archives: July 17, 2009
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About 4 years ago my old company GDC hosted the first meeting of the OGC UK Forum. The great and the good of the UK GI indudtry turned up for a couple of hours discussion and some drinks and networking. 4 years on I am sitting in on a Forum meeting at UCL. Not sure that a lot has changed. The mix of delegates is from academia, government departments (several INSPIRE people) and agencies and […]