Advancing Digital Earth: beyond the next generation

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Figure 1. Virtual Australia & New Zealand: using the Virtual World to design and manage the Real World.

Figure 2. FuturICT Platform (from FuturICT Consortium 2012).

Table 1. Summary of the guiding principles for DE.

Principle	Core elements
1. Unrestricted access: there will be unrestricted access to DE by all humankind.	Applies to all individuals, government agencies, NGO's, not-for-profit organizations and for-profit organizations.
2. For the whole of humankind: DE will be developed for the purpose of progressing the needs of humankind as a whole.	Judged by its positive contribution to public peace, public safety, public order, and public prosperity consistent with the Brundtland definition of sustainable development.
3. Always ‘on’: DE will always be ‘on’, immediate, with known precision and accuracy, comprehensive, fully interactive, and available anywhere at any time.	DE will be ubiquitous. It will be of known spatial and temporal accuracy and will be sentient.

FuturICT Consortium. 2012. The FuturICT Flagship Report. Retrieved from http://www.futurict.eu/sites/default/files/docs/files/801-01%20Flagship%20Proposal%20%202012-06-25.pdf, 75 pp.

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