Ministry of Natural Resources to launch Belize National Spatial Data Infrastructure (BNSDI) Web Portal

By BBN Staff: The Ministry of Natural Resources will officially unveil the Belize National Spatial Data Infrastructure (BNSDI) web portal on August 29, 2019, at the Best Western Plus Belize Biltmore Plaza, Belize City at 10:00 a.m.BNSDI is an initiative undertaken by the Government of Belize with funding from the World Bank through the Belize Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project (BCRIP) to create world-class infrastructure and solutions for developing spatial data decision support tools.

The system is housed and managed at the Ministry of Natural Resources and is designed to collect, store and disseminate relevant geographic data to the private and public sectors, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations.

This platform is expected to help improve data quality and transparency in data sharing while avoiding duplication.

BNSDI is an instrument of significance to Belize’s socio-economic development, in areas such as natural resource management, flood mitigation, environmental restoration, land use assessments, and disaster recovery, etc.