The Joint International Conference was held in Prague on 12 & 13 May 2009.

The three conferences that formed the Joint International Conference included:

• Information Systems in Agriculture and Forestry
  • Scientific opportunities and directions in the European Union
  • Information and communication technologies for rural areas
  • Living Labs
  • Applications for agriculture and forestry
  • eLearning for rural areas
  • Human aspect of information society development
  • Food safety and traceability

• International PROGIS Conference 2009 – Information and Communications for Rural 2009
  • ICT in agriculture – the groundwork for food- and biomass production and a positive development of agriculture and forestry.
  • Logistics – one element of an integrated rural area platform for adding value.
  • Precision Farming – for the benefit of farmers and the environment.
  • Risk- and resource management within landscapes - a workplace-reservoir – a red-hot topic and one answer to the current crises.
  • Public-private business models - the base for holistic solutions.

• INSPIREd Central and Eastern European Spatial Data Infrastructures (CEE-SDI)
  • Review the state of play regarding Geographic Information (GI) and Spatial Data Infrastructures.
  • Identify key development problems/challenges, which may be better addressed through the more extensive use of Geographic Information.
  • Explore how GI/SDIs could begin to address the identified development issues.
  • Roundtable discussions and resolutions.
  • Review the state of play regarding National Geographic Information Associations (NGIA) in each country
  • Highlight experiences and lessons learned
  • Workshop the EUROGI manual on the establishment of NGIAs. EUROGI would draw on the experience of its member NGIAs (good practice, things to avoid etc) during the day
  • Identify next steps.

• Living Labs for Spatial Data Development and Living Labs as an Enabler of Rural Development

Within the INSPIREd CEE-SDI Conference a presentation was made that presented ten best practices when implementing public sector information policies including re-use.

Presentation title: PSI Policy Principles: European Best practice Author & Presenter: Christopher Corbin, UK 25 Slides (Format PDF) 25 Slides (Format PPS)25 Slides (Format PPT)

A paper that was included in the Conference proceedings pages 39 to 46, and as a stand-alone paper, both of which were included on the Conference CD-ROM supports the presentation. 8 pages (Format PDF)