{"id":259099,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/259099/?format=json","text_counter":32,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"THAT, noting that sustainable development requires access to data, information, knowledge and understanding about the environment and natural resources including socio-economic opportunities; aware that about 80 per cent of the data and information required for planning and decision-making is spatial or geographical in nature; geo-information, and is currently processed effectively and efficiently using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology; further aware that information is currently not readily available and accessible to users due to lack of harmonized and co-ordinated development of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) among other reasons; concerned that rational planning and decision making, both at the national and county levels is not possible without the establishment of data and information infrastructure; this House urges the Government to urgently formulate a geo-information policy and establish a secretariat that will co-ordinate the development of a web-based SDI at both national and county levels in order to allow the users to readily have access to data and information in line with Article 35 of our Constitution."}