A Digitális Föld Nemzetközi Társaság (ISDE) elnöke Dr. Alessandro Annoni, a JRC egykori részlegvezetője (hozzá tartozott az INSPIRE és az alapadatok, majd a Digitális Föld és Digitális Gazdaság témaköre) október 25-én azzal keresett meg ISDE alapító tagokat, köztük Tim Foresman (Egy.Áll.) , Mario Hernandez (Mexikó) , Milan Konecny
(Csehország), John van Genderen (Hollandia), Richard Simpson
(Ausztrália), Hiromichi Fukui (Japán) professzorokat, hogy osszák meg gondolataikat a készülő és hamarosan publikálandó Digital Earth Vision 2030 dokumentum kapcsán, annak tartalmi ismerete nélkül a digitális föld jövőjéről, hogy a szerzői munkaközösség még figyelembe vehesse a felkértek releváns, befolyás-mentes meglátásait. Annoni levélre adott hozzájárulásomra az ISDE elnöke november 9-i válaszában azt írta, meglátom majd, a legtöbb felvetésemet a hamarosan publikált dokumentum tartalmazni fogja. Megküldött gondolataim a következők voltak:
"Not yet being familiar with the draft text, and the recent email
conversation and inputs, here you are my prompt thoughts related to the ISDE
Vision 2030.
According to my view in general,
the new Vision 2030 should reflect ISDE’s scientifically sound, innovative,
and practical approach using the digital technologies - a digital twin based on
EO, GI, multidomain/multilayered Big Data, AI etc. - to model and simulate the
Earth System.
Well documented and preserved geo-located, multitemporal observation
data, as well as any type of associated facts and evidence are crucial to
provide analysis ready data, as input for modelling and simulation, to generate
reliable information needed by evidence-based decision making.
The aim should be to support strengthening the resilience of the human
societies and their citizen to adopt to the challenges caused by impacts of the
critical changes (e.g., draught, floods, food and water security, societal
security, migration, human settlements, energy crisis, disaster risk reduction,
economic shortage, transportation, and supply chain discrepancies - only a few
to mention)
Based on the efforts and achievements reached by ISDE
so far, and taking into account the urgent need of acceleration of the
accomplishment of the Agenda 2030 SDGs, five major areas seem to be especially adequate,
beneficial and feasible where ISDE could act and contribute:
1. Promote innovative contribution to the achievement of some selected SDGs.
Preference should be given to interdisciplinary approach, where
interoperability, compliance with standards and readiness for cooperation and
common interest of the participants/partners are inevitable. Potential areas
include Food-Water-Energy or Urban climate-Health-Energy Nexus. Besides
Universities and Academia, engagement of industry stakeholders and empower
citizens are critical to attract governments too.
2. Promote capacity building/education related to the multiscale Digital Earth
model from local to global providing insight of the capabilities for the
benefit of the societies. Education, raising motivation in this context is
recommended from the elementary school, mobilizing the pupils and students by competition
and interactive gaming plus advocating relevant curriculum.
3. By networking - the
science/academia and private sector leadership, to facilitate coordinated collaboration
in selected SDGs being capable to provide information and/or services as
support of decisions related to early warning, warning, and emergency warning (based
on present but not limited on SDG targets and indicators). Such a contribution might
be attractive for the governments from local to national level and for the
intergovernmental custodian organization as well.
4. Communication of these efforts and achievement,
providing platform for exchange of relevant information. The involvement of
volunteers, citizen scientists and the learned societies/NGOs to be welcomed. Providing
publication (e.g., in IJDE, JBED, Nature, NPAS) for disseminate innovative,
sustainable, and resilient solutions, best practices, lessons learned in any of
the 17 SDGs areas would be significant contribution and enhance the cohesion in
the ISDE network (to be further develop on regional and national level as well)
5. To keep/strengthen horizontal relations,
partnerships with global stakeholders such as ISC, UN, GEO, CEOS, OGC and
institutions such as JRC, IIASA, IISD and CBAS to facilitate the accomplishment
of 1-4, by the way raise visibility and to allow wider acknowledgement, while the
priority of points 1-5 are subject of and depends on the ISDE governance.
The UN Water Conference (Spring, 2023) would be an excellent
occasion to announce the enhanced ISDE Vision for 2030
Gabor Remetey
6. 11. 2022"
UN: here, potential partners
include the FAO, UN Statistical Division, UNSD GGIM, UNEP, UNESCO, UN HABITAT
(with its New Urban Agenda), WHO, WMO, UNDP and SDSN as well as UN
supported/acknowledged regional offices (from Geneva to Beijing)
(Extract from official UN
news: a Preparatory Meeting took place on 25 October 2022, at UN HQ in New
York. Immediately prior to the Preparatory Meeting, approximately 1,200
stakeholders participated in the Stakeholder Dialogue of the Preparatory
Meeting for the UN 2023 Water Conference. This one-day event was organized to
ensure that stakeholders would have meaningful input to the Preparatory
Meeting. It took place online and in person at UN Headquarters on 24 October
2022. Discussions focused on the catalyzers of the SDG6 Global Acceleration
Framework. UN General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi encouraged
participants to discuss “game changers” from the perspective of
“solidarity, sustainability, and science,” which is the motto of the
77th session of the UNGA.)
