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Towards Whole of Government Spatial Enablement
Bill Hirst
ACT Surveyor-General
Manager, Land Information
November 2012
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Problem
• Silos – good intentions not realised
• Duplication
• So much potential
• Technical agreement but lack of senior level commitment
• ESA focused user
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Spatial Virtual ACT
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VIRTUAL
ACT
Readily
Integrated
Long
Term
Whole of
Government
Flexibly
Accessible
Easily
Discovered
Quality
Assured
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ACTSTRENGTHS
• Positional accuracy – integrity
• ACT Land Information Group (ALIG), cooperative enthusiastic
• Skills
• CORS
• ACTMAPi
• PSMA – Jurisdictional cooperation
• One government (no LGAs)
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ACT WEAKNESSES
• Silos
• Some duplication – roads / points of interest
• Lack of agreed whole of govt. policies -custodianship, metadata, pricing and access, licensing, software
• Skill shortage – interoperability, data modelling
• Lack of whole of government spatial planning, governance and leadership
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ACT OPPORTUNITIES
• Efficiencies in non-traditional areas
• Exploit existing infrastructure
• Exploit existing applications – utilise other
jurisdictions' applications – policies - skills
• Open government
• Digital city - Virtual ACT
• Improve information management
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ACTTHREATS
• Failure to deliver on expectations
• Failure to take advantage of opportunities
• Staff / skill loss
• Failure to manage privacy / security concerns
• Data hording – fear to release
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The Challenge
• Underutilised resources – data, infrastructure, applications
• Limited budget
• Competing demands on staff and resources
• Privacy / security
• Governance - commitment
COMPELLING OPPORTUNITIES
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Elements required
• Communications
• Technology
• Policy
• Governance
• Financial
RELATED
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Selling the ConceptCOMMUNICATIONS
• Important
• On-going
• Seek opportunities – Open Govt.
• Never let a chance go by
• Keep it simple (tricky)
• Non-traditional (Health / Education) are the key targets
• Looking for the story behind the data
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Selling the Concept
Some useful facts and figures:• 80% of all information has a location component (?)
• All information to 2003 = 5 exabyte5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
Now generated in 48 hrs (Ed Parsons Google 2010)
• CORS – centimetre accuracy – real time
• Revenue $1.4B contributing $6-12B to GDP (ACIL
Tasman 2008)
• From Maps to Solutions
• From managing spatial information to managing information spatially
• 70-80% of all internet searches have location relevance (Peter Ulm – Microsoft Virtual Earth)
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TECHNOLOGY
• Need all (most) key players to agree
• Leadership not ownership
• Forget agencies – focus on customers
• Listen to everyone
• Try to move forward incrementally within a broad plan (Bigger the bang the bigger the risk)
• Beware of complex in-house developments andlarge consultancies
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Bite size. Hub concept
Don’t interrupt existing business systems
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POLICY
• Important for:– Custodianship
– Pricing, licensing, access
– Metadata (?)
– Addressing
• Plenty of examples and assistance available
• Wide consultation required
• Linked to communication / governance
• Keep simple and succinct
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Custodianship• ACT Government spends an estimated $4-5M annually maintaining spatial data
• Much of this data is of interest to others outside the agency or section collecting the data
• Need to maximise the return on investment
• Potential to gain efficiencies by utilising custodianship as a tool to work more efficiently
• Gives users more confidence in the level of integrity, timeliness, precision and completeness.
KEY TO SDI
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GOVERNANCE
• Ideal whole of government
• Biggest obstacle
• Need teeth
• Committees struggle
• Whole of Govt. team– Handy
– Expensive?
– Only partially effective
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FINANCE
• Need on-going
• Savings real but hard to honestly quantify
• Pricing policy?
• Can make progress with little
• Share ideas / technology with others
• Communication
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Key messages
• Constant selling required
• Don’t try to own the thing – can’t break down silos by building another one
• Consultation is tiring, tedious, on-going and essential
• Governance remains a big challenge
• Smaller on-going finance better than one off big sum
• Keep trying – do a little bit every day
• Minimise disruption to existing systems
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Towards Whole of Government Spatial Enablement
Bill Hirst
ACT Surveyor-General
Manager, Land Information
November 2012