Swedesurvey has signed another contract in Ethiopia. The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology Ethiopia has signed a contract for the development of a National GIS Standard and Guideline for Ethiopia. Swedesurvey work together with the local partner Prime Consultants in the upcoming project.

The objective of the project is to develop a National Geoinformation Standard and Guideline generally aimed at establishing a strong foundation for carrying out the real needs of Geodata with a particular level of national standard, quality, accuracy, sharing and access level. Specifically, the objective focuses on creating reliable and consistent geoinformation standard and guideline on:

• Establishing national GIS business standards/architecture,
• Geospatial data collection, storage, production, presentation, sharing, distribution and transfer systems and mechanisms,
• Databases, in compliance with the GIS Spatial Data Standards to facilitate data sharing, integration, and compatibility within the GIS,
• Metadata,  in compliance with the above standards to facilitate data sharing, integration and compatibility among GIS users so as to ensure all kinds of GIS, data, applications and products seamlessly integrate to one another regardless of their technology, vendors and country of origin.