Desenvolvimento de infraestruturas de dados espaciais locais : proposta e aplicação de um modelo exploratório para avaliação multinível da capacitação individual, institucional e territorial

The scientific knowledge, technological and organizational innovation and policy options frame the development and diffusion of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to implement Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) at a global (GDSI, national (NSDI) and local scale (LSDI). GIS and SDI integrate data, technologies, users, standards and policies in the production, management, sharing and application of spatial data and geographic information. The GIS focuses on the data production and analysis, while the SDI prioritizes communication, sharing and access to data and data services between users and systems. SDI are digital information infrastructures that promote digital governance initiatives, spatially enabled societies and communities led by public institutions for participation and social cohesion and inclusion, environmental quality, land sustainability and the generation of new knowledge economies by private entities. The implementation and effectuation of the potential of these initiatives relate to the technical and scientific field of developers and users, the ability to define an appropriate space and thematic scope, a common strategic vision, a strong impetus and political and administrative leadership associated with the reorganization and capacity building.
The individual, institutional and territorial capacity building is a central element in the design, implementation and maintenance of these socio-technical digital infrastructures.
The costs, challenges and potential impacts indicate the importance and the liability to develop SDI approaches and evaluation models, awareness, readiness, maturity, performance and satisfaction. The SDI complex, dynamic and multifaceted nature, as well as the experimentation of the developed models evidence the difficulty of designing and implementing approaches and models of SDI systemic evaluation with outlook focused on components, stages or specific development processes.
This doctoral thesis aims to support, develop, experiment and propose an exploratory evaluation model of multilevel capacity building that question the extent to which GIS development projects enable individuals, institutions and regions to develop local SDI. The model experimentation is associated with inventory, description and the processes analysis and outcomes of 61 R&D+i projects, education and training developed by CIGESA-IPVC from 2000 to 2015 on: i) the acquisition of knowledge, skills or attitudes of different GIST types of individual users; ii) the components (policies, standards, data, users, and technologies) in the IPVC (institution) qualification; iii) or throughout the region for the implementation of a local SDI of the Alto Minho (NW Portugal).
The results set forth the advances in production, modeling and data sharing and spatial metadata, the number of users and application areas, the use of international standards, the establishment of local, regional and cross-border
processes and knowledge and work networks. Simultaneously it explores the challenges and formalization proposals, social adoption, political option and technical practice for the evaluation and continuous improvement of SDI development paths and impacts. The evaluation model proved to be adequate to evaluate the GIS projects results towards formalizing a proposal for a Local SDI of Alto Minho. However, it is important to experience, streamline, implement and operationalize the model, as well as adapt and compare to other scopes or implementation phases.
The evaluation of published experiments and the evaluation of several case studies support the proposal of a conceptual nature model, systemic and holistic about the hierarchical capacity to develop and sustain a SDI.
The exploratory model of the multilevel capacity building assessment contributes to new scientific concepts, approaches and SDI multidisciplinary evaluation models, formulates and proposes references, tools, training contents,
a research program, planning practices and GIS, SDI and project management and monitoring.