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Next  Mohsin Haji Ahmad Director Malaysian Center for Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MaCGDI), Malaysia mohsin@macgdi.gov.my Malaysia has developed MyGDI to maintain and share the digital data collection based on MyGDI standard. Apart from its other roles, it plays major role by bringing national data provider agencies onto a single platform and by providing intelligent access to geospatial information, which is crucial to a knowledge-based economy. An effort to establish a national infrastructure for a land information system in Malaysia has been made since 1992 by conducting a feasibility study to determine the efficacy of such a system. A feasibility study had been done by the Central Board for Real Estate Data Sweden (CFD) which had been appointed by the Cabinet ministers. The meeting on October 1989 had considered the suggestions proposed in the research report that suggested the development of Federal Land Information System. From the result of the meeting, the Ministry of Land and Cooperative Development (MLCD) had taken the idea to develop a National Infrastructure for Land Information System (NaLIS). The next step taken by the MLCD was to select a local company to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of NaLIS in 1994/1995. The next development was in the year 1997 when the Public Administration Development Circular 1/1997 (PKPA 1/1997) was circulated to outline the objective, establishment, principles, responsibilities and duties of the land-related agencies and committee members for the development and implementation of NaLIS at both Federal and State levels. MyGDI AS MALAYSIAN NSDI The establishment of MaCGDI as a center under the MLCD was enforced on December 1, 2002 to replace the NaLIS Secretariat with a vision to become a center of excellence in infrastructure and geospatial information and to cater to the economic growth, environmental quality and stability of the social development of the country. By having the new bigger and proper set-up organization, MaCGDI would provide better services as a Malaysian National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). It carries a mission towards the preparation of policy, standard, technology, research, human resource and professional consultant services that are needed for the management of geospatial information - which are also the key elements of the Malaysian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MyGDI). MaCGDI has so far played an effective role in achieving its objective of promoting land information sharing and exchange between agencies. It obviously can avoid wastage of duplicate efforts on data collection and maintenance. MyGDI services (Fig 1) has emerged as an important bridge among data providers and users to enable data sharing and exchange using the latest online information technology.
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