Community Access to Natural Resources Information CANRI Program

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Lessons for SDI implementations
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Major barriers

• Lack of support from agency IT branchesthe Great
  IT/GIS Divide
• Reluctance to publish GIS data Not with my data!

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Overcoming the IT/GIS divide

• Strong CEO/CIO engagement
• Improved market support (still only 2 or 3
  Australian OpenGIS experts)
• Mandated eGovernment Interoperability Frameworks
  (eGIF)
• Tie development funding to interoperability
  compliance

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Not with my data!

• 1. Concern over poor or uncertain quality
• 2. Cost-recovery imperatives
• 3. Real or perceived privacy concerns
• 4. Fear it will affect property values
• 5. Fear of political impact
• 6. Other work priorities
• 7. Lack of expertise
• 8. Bandwidth limitations
• 9. Inertia
• 10. Ego

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Not with my data! - Solutions?

• Increasing community pressure
• Ministerial directives
• Growing take-up of web services
• Improved collaboration between agencies

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Where to from here for a NSW SDI?

• Moving into business-critical applications
• NSW SDI plans
• Local government local-e program
• National NLWRA indicator reporting pilot

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SDI needs key shared services

• Base maps other framework data
• Service registry
• Authentication

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Service registry

• Lynchpin of the SDI
• Not just data, but services, data models,
  symbology,
• Whole-of-government responsibility
• Standards still emerging

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SDI needs quality of (web) service

• Service level agreements
• Reusable web services
• For business-critical applications
• Core business for the information age
• Conformance testing
• IT standards
• SDI framework

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SDI needs good governance

• Lead agency champion
• Consensus between sectors
• Clear business drivers
• Data custodianship principles
• Interoperability principles
• Open technology standards

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Questions?
www.canri.nsw.gov.au