[FIT] FW: Special Achievement in GIS Award Notification

[SMITH Cy * EISPD GEO]

A few folks asked for the specifics about the award.  The text below in
yellow is what was submitted to the awards committee.

 

cy

 

Cy Smith, GISP

Statewide GIS Coordinator

COGO Chair

NSGIC Past-President

DAS/Geospatial Enterprise Office

955 Center St. NE, Room 470

Salem, OR  97301

503-378-6066

http://gis.oregon.gov

 

________________________________

From: Rich Leadbeater [mailto:RLeadbeater at esri.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 12:47 PM
To: SMITH Cy * EISPD GEO; Rob McDougald; Marty Balikov
Subject: RE: Special Achievement in GIS Award Notification

 

Hi Cy,  

 

The email doesn't explain it but this is the State Government Industry
SAG. The State SAG does consider international candidates from regions
or provincial governments throughout, so your competition was worldwide.
Please note: The email was addressed to you and Brian, Dugan Petty was
also named on the award.  I'll get the SAG-coordinator to send a copy
directly to him. 

 

Again, Congrats!

 

Richard

 

 

Nominator Category:  State Government Industry

Nominee Category: Industry 

Award Name    Oregon Geographic Information Council (OGIC)

Reason: The Oregon Geographic Information Council (OGIC) was created by
Executive Order of the Governor and is comprised of State agency
directors whose agencies have a direct business need for geospatial
datasets and geospatial services.  OGIC members also include
representatives from local, Federal and tribal agencies.  OGIC is the
'tip of the spear' in a governance model and high-level vision developed
together by the GEO and CIO's offices in Oregon. This vision called
navigatOR, its aim is to deliver more coordinated and efficient
government services, and reduce duplication through coordinated
geospatial investments across state agencies.  The aim is to help every
state agency operate effectively as part of the State's IT Enterprise.


 

The navigatOR vision brings together seamless statewide geospatial data
layers and services with a governance model that includes a framework of
committees that council OGIC.  The governance model developed by GEO
includes more than a dozen consensus and volunteer-based data standard
groups called Framework Implementation Teams (FIT).  The Policy Advisory
Committee (PAC)  provides strategic planning, budgetary, and policy
development, and the GIS Program Leaders (GPL) serve as the technical
advisors to the OGIC.  Together these groups, with volunteer
participants from all levels of government, help create and deliver
geospatial datasets and services to every local, state, tribal and
federal agency that does business in Oregon.  

 

 The ELA combined with the state's GIS standard and OGIC-based
governance model will encourage rapid growth of navigatOR.  The
standards developed will eliminate the redundant development, storage,
and distribution, of all state owned geospatial datasets.  Developing
data and services once and using them many times, for many different
purposes, saves taxpayer dollars and ensure transparent and consistent
answers to questions and problems state agencies face.  Relieving
agencies, at all levels of government, from unnecessarily copying
geospatial information greatly lessens the burden on the state
technology infrastructure.  The result is clearer communication by
providing a single authoritative source for Framework geospatial
information.

 

Now, GIS and geospatial investments in Oregon are managed as a true
enterprise resource.  Business users receiving benefit from navigatOR
include public, and local, regional, tribal, and federal government
partners.  These new geospatial infrastructure and services are aimed at
delivering better value, illuminating redundancy, facilitating IT
sustainability, and providing transparency at all levels of government.
A good example of these new benefits is the Stimulus Tracker
applications.  These applications allow the public and state budget
analysts the ability to see where Federal and State stimulus dollars are
being spent allowing an unprecedented level of transparency across
multiple state departments.  In the absence of OGIC, navigatOR, the GIS
Standard, the ELA, statewide GIS layers and geospatial capabilities the
Stimulus Tracker application would not have been possible. 

 

This award is given in recognition of their foresight and commitment to
coordination between the Oregon Geographic Information Council, the
office of the CIO, and Governor Ted Kulongoski's Office towards the
fulfillment of the values and goals stated above.      

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/fit/attachments/20090504/7ed14ac6/attachment.html>