This slideshow used in closing session at 2010 International URISA GIS-Pro Conference, Orlando, Florida

1. Digging Deeper
Digging in Numbers
Zsolt Nagy, GISP #15555

2. Digging Deeper
Digging in Numbers

3. Digging Deeper
Digging in Numbers
• One Government - Governance - One Map
• Advocacy and Organization
• Conference Priorities and Directions

4. Digging Deeper
Ideas, Organization, Collaboration, Time
• Steven Johnson
• Where Good Ideas
Come From
• www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

5. ONE GOVERNMENT - ONE MAP
One Government - Governance - One Map
Advocacy and Organization
Conference Priorities and Directions

6. Hurrah for all the…. neMaps
• URISA’s ESIG Awards recognize exceptional achievements in the
application of information technology that have improved the
delivery and quality of government services. URISA is pleased to
announce the winners of this year’s ESIG Awards.
• ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS CATEGORY
• Systems in this category are outstanding and working examples of
using information systems technology in a multi-department
environment as part of an integrated process. These systems
exemplify effective use of technology yielding widespread
improvements in the process(es) and/or service(s) involved and/or
cost savings to the organization.
• 2010 ESIG Winner:
• OneMap - A Multi-Agency Window for Geospatial Information and
Service Delivery – Singapore Land Authority
Submitted by: Lim Ming Khai, Head, GeoSpatial Operations &
Development, GeoSpatial Division, Singapore Land Authority
www.onemap.sg/index.html

8. Your plan arkansas’ plan $15,000,000
Endorsed by county commissioners…

12. Governance

13. Maturity Model
”Cannot manage what you cannot measure”

14. ……beyond the measuring..ROI
We are sales people we need to sell what we do – soft skills. To help expedite. GIS Pro Problem Session

16. ADVOCACY AND ORGANIZATION
One Government - Governance - One Map
Advocacy and Organization
Conference Priorities and Directions

17. What exactly is national geospatial?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q_f7L6GQuI&feature=player_embedded

20. • Published
• Structured Process
• Evolves
• Message Sustained
over time
• Flexible
Implementation

24. Quickly learned we can’t go it
alone. Just one dissenting voice
and the momentum could be lost
or dead on arrival.

25. Also, quickly learned that point
to point affiliations can be
effective, but is not enough and
there is much overhead in
managing multiple relationships.

26. COGO
APA

27. PRIORITIES AND DIRECTIONS
One Government - Governance - One Map
Advocacy and Organizat ion
Conference Priorities and Directions

28. URISA Chapter Roll Call

29. Carolina Chapter
James Armstrong
• Lack of Training
• Lack of Understanding of GIS at Upper
Management Level.
• Lack of Funding for direction.

30. N. California Chapter
Dan Henderson
• Talk as if you’re right
• Listen as if you’re wrong
• Communication within membership is key and
then leverage across national and
international
• Survey Monkey worked nicely.

31. N. Rockies Chapter
Donna Phillips
• Mostly Idaho
• Mostly public sector survey replies
• Management needs to know about ROI and
Benefits, Cost savings, including equipment
• Lack of Funds. If above is addressed then this
becomes solved
• Training

32. Alberta Chapter
Cindy Post
• Losing local pool….Private industry wants
outsourcing. Dollars going overseas. ***
• Hiring and cutbacks. Example of 200
applicants for job opening
• Data rigor. People want fast and cheap. Losing
the details of benefits for spatial data.

33. Oregon Washington Chapter
Bob Hass
• Dealing with finances and lack of resources –
for software/hardware, No entry level jobs
• Keeping up with rate of change. Technology
• Management and Institutional issues. GIS is
not fully utilized, IT is reluctant to
acknowledge GIS

34. Florida Chapter
Bill Walter
• Training. On-line. on your desktop training.
• Organizational – lack of champions in the
organizations. Training. GIS integration with
business process
• Funding. Ties into above

35. Quebec Chapter (25 years)
Yvan Sevigny
• Lack of Funding
• Managers need to be better informed
• Training

36. Arizona Chapter (1 month)
Brian Sovik
• Bridge
• Economics, funding, travel, networking
opportunities

37. Ohio Chapter
Emily Whitehead
• Funding cuts, staff cuts, training
• Survey monkey helpful to communicate
benefits

38. New England Chapter
Feng Yang
• Data Issues, maintenance, lack of
understanding, importance of data, interstate
inconsistency, data sharing policy is not
normalized. Lack of intergovernmental
collaboration
• Funding - a-h, strategic plan, programming
• Workforce requirements for continuing
professional and career development and
training support

39. Chicago Chapter
?
• Training
• Non GIS Staff training
• ?
• ?

40. Alaska Chapter
Luke Boggess
• Funding. Need Lots of project funding.
• Industry doesn’t share content
• USGS quads is only dataset they have
statewide.
• Data Quality, Data Cost, Data Accuracy

41. Mid Atlantic Chapter
?
• Already began outreach program_ spoke to
political leaders. Spring meeting. ***
• Working towards synergy within region
• Management
• Training

42. Louisiana Chapter
Katherine Cargo
• Funding
• Lack of Leader Support for integrating GIS and
breaking down the silo.
• Need tech support and resources to keep up
with technology trends.

43. Roll Call
Summary Points
• Training
• Data Management and Quality
• Workforce Issues
• Funding
• Executive Support
• Communication

44. Roll Call
Corrections?

45. Roll Call
2 Days Later
Thoughts?

46. Roll Call
As Chapter Leaders,
how will you engage
your community on
AA beginning next
week?

47. Roll Call
How will we twist the
problems statements
into constructive
actionable agenda
items?

48. Stan’s Comments
• Clear
• Specific in purpose
• Meeting real needs
• Sustainable
• Inexpensive
• Technical Obstacles
• Data Quality
• Laws and Regs
• Competing Policy Obj
• Public Commitment

49. Examples at Lunch 20100930
• Federal grants to allow acquisition of tools
• Resourcing of Tribal and Local Technology
Assistance – Education
• Better engagement and resource matching of
training programs tied to URISA Chapter needs
• Adoption of model policy for the sharing and
ownership of data

50. Possible Next Steps
• Better definition of the problem - one page
• Report on progress this week and invite
follow-up input from chapters
• Identify the high priority issues and seek
additional dialogue about solutions
• Craft AA statements for review
• Adopt and control official source and progress
• Issue Guidelines for implementation

51. Sum
• AA can strengthen an organization, bring
focus, and bring its community together
around its highest priorities
• AA can be a vehicle for meaningful dialog with
other organizations in joint alliances
• Start out simple and let it evolve
• Using a scorecard or maturity model will help
identify priorities and justify individual
activism.

52. Sum
• Next steps are important.. won’t work without
active participation by chapter leaders and
chapter members.
• Suggestion to maintain chapter blogs that are
transparent and remain available.
• AA needs to lead to actionable steps by
members and leadership
• Indirect benefits can be realized for your
program by participating in the AA process

53. Thank You
zsolt.nagy@aecom.com
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