LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES IN OUR COMMUNITIES: GOING BEYOND BOUNDARIES

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LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES IN OUR COMMUNITIES  GOING
BEYOND BOUNDARIES

• The challenges of governing today span political
  and agency boundaries. 
• Solutions typically affect more than the
  geography of a single political or business
  jurisdiction
• Issues are not just natural resources or related
  to physical descriptors
• Effective Communication, Data Sharing and
  Organizational Cooperation are Essential

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Ever Increasing Public Expectations Infinite
Demand, Finite Resources

• I have a computer, PDA, Cell Phone, I-Pod.
• Im on line. What else can I do? Connect with my
  government - information, networking, blogging
• Greater awareness, transparency
• The private sector will build tools and acquire
  data to enable Governmental information,
  knowledge
• People today expect to have access to information
  wherever they are with high bandwidth
• Location aware equipment
• Location savvy citizens
• Trend is ever more toward web-based, easy to use
  applications
• Enabled with mobile and server based systems

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NSDI - goal of building a base of geographic
information that serves the needs and strengthens
the decision-making capabilities of all

• A series of standard geographic datasets
  (framework layers) drawn up by the federal
  government
• A series of workflows that would transactionally
  maintain (update) these datasets
• Data management responsibility (governance) for
  the data layers
• A suite of applications that leverage (use) the
  geographic information
• A stable organizational and political environment
• Leaders and liaisons working on collaborative
  efforts and partnering.

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Implementing such a system would require

• A common geospatial data model
• Data management workflows implemented within
  different organizations for maintaining (via
  transactions) the different layers of data.
• Enterprise system architecture based on modern
  web service standards and implemented in a
  distributed environment.
• Technical and policy leadership
• A strong legislative mandate and an
  organizational framework.
• Funding for implementation and maintenance
• Local governments maintain the most detailed GIS
  layers with accuracy and scale to serve local
  applications.
• Funding and support for rural/unincorporated
  areas

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Steps for designing, building and managing a GIS

• A broadly accepted vision of need that includes
  the key application areas and information
  products
• A strategic plan drawn up by GIS professionals
  and policy makers to include vision,
  architecture, tasks, timelines, responsibilities,
  and priorities.
• Assure that policy makers develop enabling
  legislation and a clear definition of the
  program. List benefits to individual agencies
  and the government as a whole.
• Establish specific architecture and
  organizational/institutional structure for
  implementation. A clear definition of critical
  information products and services. Choose
  priority products that are representative and
  considered most critical.
• Build a broad community of interest across
  agencies
• Implement the plan by prototyping a series of
  incremental efforts that demonstrate benefit and
  how to scale up

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• Land Parcel Databases A National Vision Cowen,
  et al

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Local Governments GIS Efforts Pre and Post
Disaster(adapted from Kansas GIS Collaborative
and KDEM unpublished documents)

• Western Kansas Ice Storm 2007
• F5 Tornado Destroys Greensburg, Kansas, May 4,
  2007
• Heavy Rains/Flooding June 2007 in 21 SE Kansas
  Counties

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ALL DATA IS LOCAL
The Kansas Collaborative

• and so are most of the
• applications

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Develop solutions, not just stuffThe Business
Case
64 of IT dollars are spent on solutions
and solutions are growing faster than the rest
of the market
2004 Point Products 394B 2003-07 CAGR 1
2004 Solutions 594B 2003-07 CAGR 11
2004 Other 99B 2003-07 CAGR 0
Other
Solutions
Point Products
Source IBM Market Intelligence, Solutions Market
View 1H2004

• Customers are placing value on efficient
  deployment that solves business issues
• Solutions must create value beyond the sum of the
  parts, involve customization integration beyond
  mere bundles, and contain expertise (i.e.,
  knowledge-based service) within the offering

Source McKinsey, IDC
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Disaster Response Preparation Guidelines for
Local Governments

• SEOC identified the following GIS layers that are
  needed from local jurisdictions
• Property Ownership/Parcels
• Streets/Centerlines
• Street Names
• Address Points Ranges
• Administrative Boundaries
• Tax Units
• Aerial Imagery/Orthophotography
• Elevation data/Contours

• What should local governments do today to be
  ready for disasters?
• Identify data (what you have and where it is) and
  at least three points of contact
• Back-up your data offsite (Kansas Community
  Commons, a neighboring jurisdiction, or a
  commercial service)
• Participate in emergency response exercises of
  all kinds

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GIS For the Nation - Data Model Themes

• Emergency Operations
• Structures/Critical Infrastructure
• Governmental Units
• Utilities
• Addresses
• Transportation
• Cadastral

• Hydrography
• Environmental
• Land Use/Land Cover
• Base Map
• Geodetic Control
• Elevation
• Imagery

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The Power of Information Integration Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) More Than a Map

• GIS provides a simple way to grasp very complex
  issues in context - Issue Centered
• GIS engages through visualization, which leads to
• Analysis and Modeling
• To Understand
• Patterns
• Relationships
• Processes
• Enabling
• Options and Plans
• Decisions action at any level, by anyone,
• in the context of Place, Space and Time

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Make Something Happen

• Who Are You Waiting For?