ICTA in 2016 published an international tender for (a)Requirement study for a NSDI (b) Baseline study and (c) Policy, Standards and Governance of a NSDI for Sri Lanka. In the Requirement Study the Consultant elaborated in four reports where he discussed the following case studies(a) European Union Inspire (b) Singapore (c) Qatar (d) Abu Dhabi (e) USA. He dealt with (i) Implementation approach (ii) Policy (iii) Organisation approach (iv)Finances (v)Data (vi) Assess (vii)Capacity and Technology in each of the above 5 case studies that was dealt on the report. These Reports on Requirement Analysis, Baseline Survey and Policy, Governance and Standards has been very useful for the ICTA in their endevour to build up a much needed National Spatial Data Infrastructure for Sri Lanka. In 2017 the ICTA has contracted and International firm for the Implementation of the NSDI and let us hope that all the initial work done far would be of some use to build up this infrastructure. 20-11-2018