OGC Innovation Program
The OGC Innovation Program is a forum for OGC members to solve the latest and hardest geospatial challenges via a collaborative and agile process. OGC members (sponsors and technology implementers) come together to solve problems, produce prototypes, develop demonstrations, provide best practices, and advance the future of standards. Since 1999, more than 100 funded initiatives have been executed - from small interoperability experiments run by an OGC working group to multi-million dollar testbeds with more than three hundred OGC-member participants.
The first Innovation Program initiative was held in 1999, when the Web Mapping Testbed took place and helped to develop the most popular OGC standard: the Web Map Service (WMS). Today, hundreds of thousands of data layers are available via WMS, and more than ten thousand articles are available related to this subject.
The OGC Innovation Program has helped advance OGC standards for geospatial data analysis and portrayal, data packaging, on-and-offline usage, data discovery & processing, cloud computing, small & large scale infrastructures, and much more. Today, OGC Innovation Program activities research and develop solutions for all aspects of modern location data, including Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, smart cities, edge computing, blockchain, semantic web, linked data, mobile devices, aviation, disaster management & risk mitigation, among many others.
Sponsoring an OGC Innovation Program Initiative | Participating in an OGC Innovation Program Initiative |
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OGC Innovation Program Sponsors benefit from:
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OGC Innovation Program Participants benefit from:
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Initiatives
OGC IP initiatives promote rapid prototyping, testing, and validation of technologies, such as location standards or architectures. Within an initiative, OGC Members test and validate draft specifications to address geospatial interoperability requirements in real-world scenarios, business cases, and applied research topics. This approach not only encourages rapid technology development, but also determines the technology maturity of potential solutions and increases the technology adoption in the marketplace. All OGC IP initiatives are governed by a set of proven IP Policies and Procedures that provide a detailed overview of all OGC IP Initiative types, their linkages to Technology Readiness Levels, execution processes, and other organizational details.
IP Pool
To best support the technical architecture and management of these initiatives, the OGC Innovation Program relies on an IP Pool. The IP Pool is a set of world-wide OGC- member experts in various domains that have been pre-qualified to support future OGC IP initiatives.
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