How can governments, institutions, and communities better understand territories and make more effective decisions?
In a world shaped by environmental change, urban expansion, inequality, and a growing volume of data, understanding territory is essential to planning, delivering public services, and building policies that respond to people's needs.
In Territorial Digital Infrastructure, readers explore the concepts and applications that connect geographic data, Geographic Information Systems, digital platforms, sensors, artificial intelligence, and governance. The book shows how these capabilities can support environmental management, biodiversity conservation, urban planning, mobility, agriculture, water resources, risk management, and essential services.
Across twelve chapters, the book also examines the challenges of turning technology into institutional capacity, including data quality, interoperability, security, privacy, public participation, funding, team development, and operational continuity.
What is territorial digital infrastructure? It is the combination of data, technologies, systems, people, and agreements that enables us to observe, understand, and manage relationships across a territory. This book explains how to build that capacity and use it to create public value.
Written in a fluid, reflective style, this book invites public-sector leaders, geospatial professionals, researchers, and students to rethink how they work and lead. Technology is presented as a means to expand knowledge, strengthen cooperation, and support more informed decisions-with attention to the people and places affected.
Discover how to connect information, territory, and public action. Read Territorial Digital Infrastructure and explore the path toward smarter, more inclusive, and more sustainable territories.
