About Business Information

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About Business Information
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Mission Statement

• The survey and data management team strives for
  technical, operational and innovative excellence,
  and subscribes to the missions and ideals of the
  DWAF.

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Knowledge workers in an information technology era

• The staff of Business Information are very aware
  that we ourselves are knowledge workers, and what
  we produce is information input into other
  peoples work. We attempt to have all our
  information outputs in digital format, compatible
  with our clients needs, for ease of distribution,
  storage and manipulation.

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What do we do?

• Surveys
• Dam deflection surveys
• Cadastral surveys
• Topographic
• Hydrographic surveys

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What do we do?

• Production of maps and plans
• Geo-hydrological Mapping Series
• From photogrammetry
• Cadastral compilations
• Zoning maps
• Ad hoc maps
• Forestry maps

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What do we do?

• Data Management-
• Corporate Spatial database
• Intranet metadata system
• Digital Spatial Archive
• Map Library (maps photos)
• Map Shop

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Legislated Functions-

• NATIONAL WATER ACT (36/98)
• Sect 23 determination of quantity of water
  available
• Sect 64 Expropriation of property
• CH. 12 Safety of Dams
• CH. 13 Part 2 Servitudes
• CH 14 National Information Systems
• Sect 141, 142 145 Provision and access to
  Information for the public

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Legislated Functions

• NATIONAL FORESTS ACT (84/98)
• Sect 26 Servitudes in state forests
• Sect 27 Leasing of state forests
• Sect 49 Expropriation of property

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Legislated Functions

• WATER SERVICES ACT (108/97)
• CH 10 National Information SystemSect 77, 81,
  79 Servitudes, Expropriation and transfer of
  assets

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Outsourced Services

• Cadastral surveys
• Aerial Photography
• Some mapping (aerial/cartography)
• Large data capture/editing projects e.g. rivers,
  scanning 150 000s
• Expertise quality of work inhouse tends to be
  high

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What do we strive for?

• happy clients
• happy staff keeping abreast of the latest
  technical developments
• efficiencies data flows, automation
• innovation new products services
• representivity

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Organogram
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Examples of us living up to our mission

• Technical excellence-
• Introducing GPS to Hydrographic Surveys
• Establishment of a Corporate GIS
• Introducing digital photogrammetry
• On line specifications on intranet
• GPS for Abstraction control
• ITerise the directorate

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Examples of how we live up to our mission

• Operational Excellence
• Restructured the directorate into clear reporting
  structures and responsibilities
• Customer Surveys
• Centralised IT Project Management System (with
  cost accounting)
• Streamline data flows- (compatablity of systems)
  data conversion, combination processing

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Examples of how we live up to our mission

• Operational excellence
• Benchmarking
• Time saving through automation -hydrographic
• Departmental co-operation GIS Management Policy
• GIS Data Standards
• GIS Users Group
• Corporate GIS Training
• Courses on GIS, Surveying,etc.
• Get Digital

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Examples of how we live up to our mission

• Operational excellence-
• Attending to Regional Office problems-
• Appointment of DD
• Setting documenting standards
• Auditing
• Training (revised training syllabus)
• Map Shop Intranet Café

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Examples of how we live up to our mission

• Innovative Excellence
• Corporate GIS
• automating Hydrographic Surveys
• Digital Spatial Archive
• Training Centre
• Internet (distributing data info)
• Applications for remote sensing???

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And the DWAF culture we try to live up to-

• Patriotic
• People-centred
• Pioneering
• Partnership
• Performance-focussed

• Democratic
• Development
• Diversity
• Disciplined
• Dedicated

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Business Information Culture

• Open
• Honesty
• Integrity
• Everyone to contribute
• their ideas
• Speak up
• Multi-cultural
• aesthetically

• Open door policy
• First name terms
• Dress to be yourself
• SPOT-SHOT
• diversity management
• committee
• at least monthly section meetings

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Budget2003/4

• R000
• Personnel (68 staff) 8285
• Administrative 1400
• Stores 340
• Equipment 1300
• Prof Services 2810
• TOTAL 14135

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Representivity 2003/4

• Head Office
• B 36 W 26
• M 34 F 28
• Management B 0 W 4 (50 F)
• Control Tech. B 2 W 6 (25 F)
• Prod. staff B 34 W 22 (40 F)

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Generally ...

• meeting BP targets
• Challenges IT support
• Current move to geodatabases for interfacing of
  Corporate GIS with other DWAF information systems