One of the key objectives of the Summit was to explore how data services and apps coming
from citizen science and smart cities initiatives can be made interoperable and reusable.
Given the variety of approaches, technologies, and standards, a valuable contribution
comes from the Brokering framework, initially developed by CNR as part of an FP7 project
coordinated by the JRC (ww.eurogeoss.eu) and then adopted by the Group for Earth
Observation to link the many systems, capacities and communities contributing to the
Global Earth Observation System of Systems.