Economic Rationalism

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• Economic Rationalism
• in managing spatial data
• infrastructure - the
• Australian experience

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MicroEconomicReform

• measures which increase the ability of the
  economy to produce goods and services efficiently

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MicroEconomicReformEconomic Rationalism

• a rational view of management based on economic
  and financial principles

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MicroEconomicReformEconomic
RationalismPublic SectorReform

• deliver better, more responsive and more
  effective services at a lower cost

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Purchaser Provider Model

• the delivery of outputs that satisfy performance
  standards and budgetary targets
• policy makers serve as purchaser
• competing government and commercial providers
• idealistic model

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SDIsSpatialDataInfrastructures

• global
• national
• state

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S D IGlobal

• encompasses
• policies
• technologies
• standards
• human resources
• delivers effective
• collection
• management
• distribution
• utilisation
• in a global community

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S D IGlobalAustralia

• similar to the US but greater focus on state SDIs
• network of databases
• linked by common standards and protocols
• complete to cadastral parcel level

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S D IGlobalAustraliaVictoria

• GISNET - geospatial information network
• GPSNET - geodetic information network
• SDMB - state digital map base
• topographic mapping
• cadastral mapping
• road network etc

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SDI / DCDBAustralia

• Importance of institutional arrangements in
  Australia
• departments of lands
• Surveyors General
• Land Titles Offices
• spatial data coordination units

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SDI / DCDB AustraliaVictoriaSpatial Data
Coordination

• LandData
• 1980 - 1991
• OGDC
• 1991 - 1996
• GPAC/GDV
• 1996 - 1997
• Land Victoria
• 1997 - now

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SDI / DCDB VictoriaLandata1980-1991

• Significant LIS/GIS initiative
• Minimise duplication
• Improve access
• under resourced
• budget
• data
• problem of cost recovery

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SDI / DCDB Victoria OGDC 1991-1996

• result of GIS cost benefit analysis
• SDMB
• digital cadastre
• roads network
• digital topography
• remain small and outsource business operations,
  especially DCDB maintenance

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SDI / DCDB VictoriaGDV/GPAC1996 - 1998

• Victorian SDI
• Vision
• Strategy
• GPAC purchaser
• GDV provider
• user pays, but not full cost
• outsource SDMB
• development
• maintenance

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SDI / DCDB VictoriaLand Victoria1998 - 1999

• Institutional integration
• Titles Office
• SGO
• GDV
• Crown Lands
• Pricing Policy - changes
• GIRG

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SDI / DCDB VictoriaImpact of Economic
Rationalism

• GIS/SDI management
• Spatial information Industry
• SDI composition

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Cadastral basedstate SDI- a Vision
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Conclusions

• Role of sectors
• private
• government
• academic
• State Digital Map Base
• Changing role of government especially Land
  Titles Offices

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• Economic Rationalism
• in managing spatial data
• infrastructure - the
• Australian experience
• GEOMATICA, Vol. 52, No. 2, 177-187

Ian Williamson Tai On Chan Wolfgang Effenberg