Capacitating local governments for the digital earth vision:lessons learnt from the role of municipalities in the South African spatial data infrastructure

作     者：Lindy-Anne Siebritz Ahmad Desai Serena Coetzee Antony K.Cooper 

作者机构：National Geo-Spatial InformationDepartment of AgricultureRural Development and Land ReformCape TownSouth Africa Department of GeographyGeoinformatics and MeteorologyUniversity of PretoriaPretoriaSouth Africa Smart PlacesCSIRPretoriaSouth Africa 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Digital Earth》 (国际数字地球学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第14卷第12期

页      面：1897-1917页

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学科分类：0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 

基　　金：City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality Garden Route District Municipality Helena Fourie Municipal Capacity Building Project Department of Health, Western Cape Government 

主　　题：SDI SASDI municipalities service delivery data governance 

摘      要：The Digital Earth vision foresees the availability and accessibility of geospatial information to achieve the goals of sustainable development,economic growth and social *** the case of urban areas,upto-date geospatial information is essential for managing a city towards achieving these *** rapid shift from rural to urban areas globally puts pressure on local governments and they often struggle to find and organise the resources required to collect and maintain geospatial information that can help to address urban growth challenges.A spatial data infrastructure(SDI)can facilitate the availability and accessibility of geospatial information towards addressing national objectives,however,the involvement of local governments in an SDI can be a *** this paper,we critique the role of municipalities against the backdrop of the developments of the South African SDI(SASDI)to *** critique identifies five high-level shortcomings of the SASDI that have led to the limited participation of *** on the shortcomings,we provide recommendations for capacitating municipalities through SASDI so that the Digital Earth vision can also be achieved for *** recommendations are aimed at involving the local sphere of government in a national SDI and are equally applicable to other countries.