"IGN - INNOVATION.Grenzüberschreitendes Netzwerk e.V." 
has been founded as a follow-up of BOW OpenGIS Strategy Seminar series GI2000 and GI2002  
as a non-profit charity Association (gemeinnütziger Verein) by Czechia and 
Saxonia experts of Cybernetics, Geomatics, Cyberlaw, Economics, 
Mediamatics, Process&Project Management and Spatial Sciences  
at September 2nd, 2003 in Dresden (Germany) 
to support GEO - ENVIRO - SPATIO - oriented  
Interoperability, Sustainability, and Usability  
of Data, Services and Applications.

IGN is enabling a true multinational membership, but especially
across borders, organizations and thematical sectors of   
Czechia, Polonia and Saxonia Euregia's. 

IGN is offering consultancy and providing awareness support for   
data, information, knowledge and expertise services   
combined with management and know-how
transfer openly and transparently to the public, but also
promoting AWARENESS on INNOVATION's in postgradual
education, and training, as well as providing research on 
sustainable development and innovation technology consultancy 
from local up to EURO_ASIA level.

Therefore, IGN is about networking european citizens,
public administrations and private industries (especially SME's)
interactively together in the past for FP6 & and actually for FP7 projects
in the enlarged EUROPE of REGIONS, and is supporting the 
globalized, euro-regional, trans-national and / or
cross-sectoral and cross-border networked,
EAST-WEST and NORTH-SOUTH
collaboration and interoperation.