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Abstract
One of the outcomes of the EC-FP7 project “Future Farm” was showing the need of
INTEGRATION, something that PROGIS has been doing for 15 years. Within the whole sector
agriculture–forestry-environment-risk management there is an enormous need for integration
that is not available yet, because of on side the existing admin-sector-structures plus on the
other side diverse public and/or private interests with opposite directions and in many cases the
not streamlined interest of ALL involved parties. On the other hand we have the nature that is
fully integrated and should be managed by us! Nothing happens without being related to
something else within the nature. We have to be more aware of this and have also to understand
that ICT will be the driver of integration as data and based on it these information is necessary
and urgently needed for public and for private structures. We can do it separately, doing things
in parallel and multiple times with multiple costs and reduced results. The other option is to
cooperate on an integrative model!