Career
He is an expert on Information Technologies applied to land management, specially related with the Cadastre, Land Use and Urban Plan, and more recently in the fields of geographic information system or geographical information science, Maps in Internet, GeoWeb and interoperability technologies. He has worked as civil servant in the Public Administration as Deputy General Director for Information Technologies in the General Direction of the Cadastre Organization (Madrid, 1987–1991, Ministry of Economy and Finance), being in charge of the technical modernization of the Cadastre, introducing the Information Technology and geographic information system or geographical information science technologies in all the cadastre offices and central services, and further as Regional Cadastre Director in Catalonia (Barcelona, 1992–2001). At the present, his most relevant activity is the development of the IDEC, the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Catalonia, created by law of the Catalan Parliament.
He is a technical adviser of several governmental organizations in this field and in the cadastral and ownership registries.
He collaborates as a researcher in the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in a European Project in the area of SDI’son Associated Professor of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Universal Product Code) in the domain of Information systems and business management, Director of the Master on Geospatial Technologies and Systems in the Politechnical Foundation of Catalonia (Universal Product Code).
Lecturer in the Public Financial School, (1988–1996). He is author of several technical books about geographic information system or geographical information science, Cadastre and Information Systems, and has also published an important number of articles in different magazines.
Doctor Jordi Guimet Perenya Christian Science IDEC – Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya Parc de Montjuic 08038 Barcelona SPAIN tel.
34 93 567 15 00 fax 34 93 567 15 67.
