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Title: The Spatial Information Industry and the Australian Economy


1
The Spatial Information Industry and the
Australian Economy
PAUL FARRELL Managing Director
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Australian Wine Industry
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Pre-Amble
  • The industry has size but fragmented
  • Economic benefits are high
  • Support from government is essential
  • Investment will provide high returns.

4
Background
  • Action Agenda (2001)
  • Australia will be a global leader in the
    innovative provision and use of spatial
    information
  • Investment support lacking
  • ASIBA CRCSI mid 2007
  • ACIL Tasman

5
ASIBA
  • ASIBA Australian Spatial Information Business
    Association
  • Provide one voice representing spatial
    information business interests
  • Promote the spatial information industry
  • Relationships with Government and influencing
    policy direction
  • Grow the industry

6
The Spatial Information Industry Who Is it?
Figure 2 Supply chain in the spatial information
sector


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Our Industry
  • Spatial information
  • The location of and relationships of objects in
    the real world.
  • The Industry is valuable
  • Worldwide 40B (est.)
  • Australia 1.366B
  • The Industry is high growth
  • Overall 11
  • New economy 40
  • The Industry is dominated by SMEs
  • 18750 employees
  • 745 businesses
  • 90 have lt20 employees
  • Source Positioning for Growth 2002, Spatially
    Enabling Australia 2007

8
Economic Impacts
  • Lower bound verifiable case 0.51 to 0.79 GDP
    (5.3B to 8.9B)
  • Confidently and verifiably quantify
  • Estimated realistic results 0.99 to 1.57
    GDP (12.5B to 16.4B)
  • ACIL believes to be reality

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Economic Impacts From Where?
  • Key net benefits derive from
  • faster discovery of minerals and petroleum
    resources in more difficult to find areas
  • faster provision of land and infrastructure which
    is highly important to provision of housing,
    urban development and provision of new
    infrastructure to the resources sector
  • improved transport planning and management
  • safer air and sea transport
  • vastly improved systems for asset management
  • more efficient management of utilities and
    infrastructure
  • better environmental and natural resources
    management
  • more efficient production in agriculture
    fisheries and forestry
  • more efficient management of threats from pests
    and disease in agriculture
  • higher levels of security from terrorism
  • more efficient, effective and timely emergency
    management systems
  • more effective marketing and retail planning
  • better decision making and policy formulation and
    implementation.

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Economic Impacts From Where?
  • Key net benefits derive from
  • Time savings
  • Input cost savings
  • More output

Timely Efficient Effective
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Future Potential
  • Potential
  • Lower data costs
  • Increasing computing power
  • Consumer commodity (GE, Nokia, Car Nav)
  • Threats
  • Inconsistent data pricing
  • Lack of awareness
  • Data property rights
  • Lack of strategic investment

12
Use of Spatial Data
13
Key Recommendations
  • COAG to address the skills shortage.
  • Establish a Spatial Information Innovation
    Development Initiative for 5 years.
  • COAG to expand the quality and quantity of
    available FD.

14
Main Recommendations
  • 4. COAG to invest 200M in an ASDI over the next
    5 years.
  • Value add services to data left to private
    sector.
  • Spatial industry to be recognised by ABS.

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The Role of Government
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Download www.ngis.com.au/walis
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Summary
  • The industry is large but fragmented
  • Economic benefits are high
  • 1.3B industry delivering approx. 1000 returns
    to economy
  • Support from government is essential
  • Institutional Building
  • Capacity building
  • Industry development
  • Any investment will provide high returns.

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Australian Wine Industry
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  • 1986
  • Importing more than exporting
  • 2004
  • 2.7B exporter
  • Fourth largest global wine exporter
  • 100 countries

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