| - Contribute to the National Open Data Policy with the GeoSpatial Datasets; develop the open datasets for public use• The high-level responsibilities of NCSI towards ONSDI, to be executed in coordination with stakeholders are defined as under• Director General of Technical Affairs, Muscat Municipality MM | - Design and implement the IT infrastructure needed to Host the NSDI infrastructure and services• Each TWG is headed by a technical expert from the major stakeholder specific to business domain |
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| Steering Committee: The ONSDI Steering Committee represents the legal and administrative umbrella and responsible to look through the implementation plan for the ONSDI | Currently Heads of GIS from 26 entities are members to the Technical Executive Committee |
Director General of NSDI, National Centre for Statistics and Information NCSI.
14| The Technical Executive Committee is headed by Director General of National Spatial Data Infrastructure, NSDI , and NCSI and is Deputy chaired by Director of geospatial information, National Survey Authority NSA | The Technical Executive Committee TEC is formulated from the Heads of GIS units in the major government stakeholders |
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| - Development of National Geospatial Data Sets NGDB , populate with GeoSpatial Data from Data Owners and disseminate securely• The steering committee provides the required support and resources to implement ONSDI program by reviewing and approving the budget and formulating the Technical Executive Committee TEC representing the different stakeholders | Technical Working Groups TWGs are formed with Geospatial Technical Experts from key concerned stakeholder organizations |
The Role of Technical Executive Committee is to act as the Technical advisory board for reviewing Technical Standards and Policies to allow the delivery of good quality service, executing the ONSDI collective decisions and incorporating them into their organizations work programmes, review the geospatial information security and ensure the implementation inside their organization, Following up the specific Technical Working Groups TWGs to achieve their role and delivering the standards and solutions to the issues within their domains.
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