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Corporate Info

National Geospatial Centre

National Geospatial Centre (NGC) was established in December 2002 to replace the Secretariat for National Infrastructure for Land Information System (NaLIS). PGN is a centre that manage and promote the development of Malaysia Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MyGDI) as the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). PGN is responsible for coordinating access and delivery of the geospatial information held by all government agencies, private sectors and public.

Vision

A leader in sustainable geospatial shared services and information for a prosper country.

Mission

Strengthening geospatial shared services and information with efficient and optimum use of resources based on the law and legislation. 

History

  • 1987

    Development of Land Information System

    On 23rd September 1987, in accordance with Paper No. 500/1597/187, the Cabinet of Malaysia has decided to develop the Land Information System under the Ministry of Land and Cooperative Development (KTPK).

  • 1994/1995

    Study on The Development of National Infrastructure for Land Information System (NaLIS)

    In 1994/1995, the Ministry of Land and Cooperative Development led the development of National Infrastructure for Land Information System (NaLIS). Renong Berhad was tasked by the Ministry to carry out the study that would bring NaLIS into existence.

  • 1997

    Establishment of NaLIS Secretariat

    On 2nd January 1997, the NaLIS Secretariat was set up underneath the Public Service Circular No. 1/1997 (PKPA 1/1997), and was officially launched by the Chief Secretary to the Government on 22nd September 1997. The Circular underlined the objectives of NALIS establishment, principles, roles and responsibilities of all the parties related to the management of NaLIS.

  • 2002

    Establishment of Malaysia Centre of Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MaCGDI)

    Malaysia Centre of Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MaCGDI) was established on 27th September 2002 to replace NaLIS Secretariat in line with the growth challenges and also roles and responsibilities in the development of geospatial data infrastructure including the coordination of geospatial data usage across public sector.

  • 2003, 2004 & 2018

    MaCGDI as Division

    On 1st December 2003, MaCGDI was realized as a division under KTPK.

    2004: Rebranding of Ministry Name to Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE)

    On 27th March 2004, ministry name was changed from KTPK to Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE).

    2018: Rebranding of Ministry Name to the Ministry of Water, Land and Natural Resources (KATS)

    On 2nd July 2018, ministry name was changed from NRE to the Ministry of Water, Land and Natural Resources (KATS)

     

  • 2020 & 2022

    Rebranding of Ministry and MaCGDI

    On 10th March 2020, KATS was renamed to Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (KeTSA). While MacGDI was renamed to National Geospatial Centre (PGN) in line with the changes of ministry name.

    2022: Rebranding of Ministry Name to the Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change (NRECC)

    On 2nd December 2022, KeTSA was renamed to Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change (NRECC).

Functions

To be the lead agency to coordinate the development of geospatial standards in consultation with Federal Government, State Governments, academia and private sector

To be the one-stop centre for sharing national geospatial data by working and coordinating with the Federal Government, State Governments and with academia

To develop a web services platform for sharing geospatial information and its utilisation by the Federal Government, State Governments, academia and private sector

To plan and conduct human resource development programs in GIS and the related fields

To organise various activities in promoting the use of MyGDI throughout the country

To represent the public sector in international forum, conferences and meetings involving geospatial data

To be a technical reference centre for advisory and consulting services with regard to the development of geospatial data application and also for research and development (R&D) in geospatial related field

Objectives

To provide an efficient geospatial information and shared services through:

An integrated action mechanism that includes proper governance, policy and legislative formulation and strengthening strategic collaborative which involves all parties at every level to support the National Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MyGDI)

Strategic synchronization / coordination by main and custodian agencies to avoid overlapping of geospatial information for national planning and development

Geospatial related investments by creating new products and services to generate a sustainable economy

Reinforcing expertise, technology and consulting services in Research, Development, Innovation and Commercialisation (RDIC) for geospatial

Client Charter

To provide geospatial data sharing policies or guidelines as a reference to the data provider agencies, consumers and GIS practitioners within a year when necessary

To ensure the quality of geospatial data services are reliable, meet the needs of customers and are updated every year in accordance to the Data Quality Review Guidelines

To collaborate with the Technical Committee 2 (TC2) SIRIM to provide geospatial data standards for sharing of geospatial data within one year when there is a need/ or when necessary

To provide access to applications/ systems in order to retrieve geospatial information every 24 hours x 7 days, with the applications/ systems uptime are not less than 99%

To conduct outreach programmes in order to promote geoinformation technologies to targeted groups at least 3 times a year

To organize human capital geoinformation development programmes least once per month

To take action on inquiries of geoinformation services and products within 3 working days

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Contact Us

National Geospatial Centre
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability
Level 7 & 8, Menara PETRA
No. 25, Persiaran Perdana, Precinct 4
Federal Government Administrative Centre
62574, Putrajaya, Malaysia

Phone: +603-8886 1156 | Fax: +603-8889 4851
pgn.webmaster[at]nres[dot]gov[dot]my

 

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