Track: System Implementation for GIS
The Introduction of GIS Tools and Products in Everyday Work at DGXVI
Simon SzpiroDGXVI is responsible for both the implementation of regional policies intended to eventually erase all economic differences among the regions of the EU and the management of funds provided for the FEDER and COHENSION programs. Until 1992, even though geographical maps were widely used, few DGXVI employees thought of adding the spatial component, or in other words the territorial location, to the subjects they were dealing with. GIS has enabled different categories of users to visualize the where, how, and why of what they were doing.
Simon Szpiro
EU Commission
Csm2-1/53, 200 rue de la Loi
Brussels, 1049
BELGIUM
Telephone: 32-2-2956104
Fax: 32-2-2994684
E-mail: simon.szpiro@dg16.cec.be