World Bank · EU Catching-Up Regions · SDI
From zero GIS unit to a regional open data infrastructure — in one year
Prešov Self-Governing Region & World Bank Group · 2018–2024
The Prešov Region — one of the poorest in the EU — had no functioning GIS unit when we started. Miloslav led the spatial data component of the World Bank Catching-Up Regions Initiative: building the geoportal from scratch, training staff and establishing INSPIRE-aligned data governance across the whole region.
50+architects, planners and civil servants trained in QGIS and open spatial data workflows
3Slovak regions now operating geoportals built on open-source SDI