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It has been 20 years since spatial data infrastructure (SDI) had spread across the world. During this time, several countries has started establish their own SDI, all of which are different from the other. In Mongolia using geographic information system (GIS) software for mapping since 1990. Nowadays many organizations and some private companies in Mongolia have been dealing with remote sensing and GIS activities. Since 2004 there have being discussions and plans on founding National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) and had being ongoing starting from 2012. The NSDI is the one of seven main key components of the “National Program to Establish an Integrated System of Registration and Information of Mongolia” (2008). The project is to facilitate and support data exchanges between intra-and inter-organizations, efficient cadastral procedures, registration and taxation, other related activities, etc. NSDI is a web based and centralized system which covers administration of geoinformation database all over the country among government departments. The PEST factors, combined with external micro-environmental factors and internal drivers, can be classified as opportunities and threats in a SWOT analysis.  In order to establish promotion strategy for SDI system implementation project, internal and external factors are derived through using SWOT and PEST analysis. This research aims SWOT and PEST analysis to identify the key internal and external factors in SDI legal system, internship between government organizations, human resources, data resource and security that are important for achieving the objective in Mongolian situation.

Mongolia; SWOT; PEST