Statistics Act No.9 of 2011 mandated the NSA to establish and coordinate the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) for Namibia. The NSDI is established as the national technical and institutional framework to facilitate the capture, management, maintenance, integration, distribution, and use of spatial data.

The present NSDI Policy (2015) draws credit from the 2003 draft policy. Informing the Policy research was conducted on recommendations that could be useful for Namibia in establishing the process to get to a successful NSDI. These recommendations are many but can be summarized as follows:

• Develop a common view on the NSDI.
• Address the need for policies that promote access and sharing of information.
• Apply free access for public sector GI with a limited number of exemptions.
• Promote transparency of user restrictions.
• Promote documentation of metadata.
• Promote free viewing of public sector GI.
• Promote free availability of GI within government.

• Create a one-stop-shop to give information about available GI.
• Promote the development of private value-added services.
• Implement capacity building in its widest definition (including change management and conflict resolving).
• Carry out institutional development.
• Aggregate services and content in the SDI.
• Promote Public-Private Partnerships.