Regional SDI & Land Administration, Capacity and ... - INSPIRATION

4/5 organizations do not offer scholarships to students. Main cause for that is probably the
recession. Besides that, or right because of the crisis, the organizations may also prefer
capacity building over inert university teaching curricula, as they express in the question on
encouraging the employees to attend certain educational programmes.
Less than half of the responding organizations review or influence the educational
programmes at certain institutions.
When it comes to its own employees, the organizations are more actively involved as they
encourage or stimulate their employees to attend certain educational programmes in 2/3 of
the organizations. This is good news for the SDI capacity building.
Half of the respondents’ organizations recognize ECDL. Also half of the respondents know of
other programmes in their organization (association, country) for improving computer literacy.
ECDL is potentially a valuable tool in managing the capacity building process, if used
appropriately. One issue in capacity building requires previous level of knowledge of the
training attendees. Unlike university students, who have certain formal preconditions to fulfil
before they are qualified to attend subsequent lectures, the public sector (and other)
employees may not be on the required level of computer literacy to follow capacity building
trainings. Other computer literacy elevation programmes are country specific and might not
be usable in other countries. In that regard certain level of ECDL certificate could be set as
precondition for SDI capacity building in the region.
Figure 12: Importance and support of education
education important?
0
52
encourage/support certain disciplines?
17
39
offer scholarship?
12
42
review/influence programmes?
encourage/stimulate certain programmes?
17
23
30
35
No
Yes
recognize ECDL?
any other computer literacy programme?
25
29
22
25
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Question: How would you spend 100 units of money / budget for the purpose of
building capacity for SDI? Please fill in the values so the fields sum up to 100.
This question puts education far in front of other ways of support to capacity building for SDI.
Building SDI institutions / bodies is ranked second together with software. Also significantly
high is building specialized national SDI educational centre (together with elevating computer
literacy), while support to university programmes and building regional centre is closer to the
bottom.
INSPIRATION – Spatial Data Infrastructure
in the Western Balkans
Regional SDI & Land Administration (LA) Capacity and
Education Study and Recommendations Report
(Act. 2.1 and Act. 2.2), March 2013
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