Please describe any additional services or goods provided by government in support of the NSDI for which individual users are not charged. At present we are still on the learning curve. The NSDI is still an ongoing process involving the university, private sector's, government agency and the vendors. This is in line with our Agency's vision to realize a dependable NSDI by year 2005. The privacy issues mostly are related to data held by the land agency, which based their operation on the National Agrarian Law.
Data held by other agencies follows, the privacy protection as started in their mandate.
If YES, please provide citations to those laws or orders. Recently by a presidential decree, aNational Coordination Team on telematics has been established. If YES, please describe the purpose of the funds and the amounts. Govermment funding for the acquisition, processing storage and retrieval of spatial data has been channelled throughout various government agencies. Avoidance of duplication i the cost of data acquisition was implied through the appointment of Bakosurtanal as -The National Coordinating Agency for Surveys and Maping.