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CoCiGIS
Receives
Special Achievement in GIS Award!
Overview
Photos
Congratulations
by Jack Dangermond, President, ESRI
Nomination
Excerpt
Overview The
County-City GIS has been recognized by ESRI
for a 2001 SAGIS Award. This award was given to 50 domestic
user sites and 78 international user site around the world for their GIS
achievements.
Photos 
Congratulations
by Jack Dangermond, President, ESRI
"It is my distinct pleasure to inform
you that your company has been selected to receive a "Special
Achievement in GIS" award at ESRI's 21st Annual User Conference. This
award is being given to user
sites around the world in recognition of their outstanding work in the GIS
field. Your organization was selected to
receive this award from over 60,000 sites worldwide. It
is quite an honor…
…Congratulations for achieving this
special honor. I commend you and your coworkers on a job
well done and look forward to meeting you at the ceremony.
Warm regards, Jack Dangermond,
President."
Nomination
Excerpt
DeKalb
County and the Cities of Auburn, Butler and Garrett, Indiana have
developed an enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS) that spans
political boundaries and has become an outstanding example of
collaborative government.
In
1998, DeKalb County and the City of Auburn defined a need to improve
public information services, promote inter-department and
inter-jurisdictional cooperation, and encourage holistic approaches to
decision-making and communications. The
County and City identified a joint GIS as a primary means of achieving
these goals. DeKalb County
and the City of Auburn formed the joint County-City GIS Committee to
assist policy makers in implementing the partnership and processes
necessary for successful implementation of a joint enterprise GIS
(CoCiGIS). In 2000, CoCiGIS was expanded to include the City of Butler
and the City of Garrett.
There
are many components that have contributed to the success of CoCiGIS.
These include:
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Adoption
of inter-local agreements (ILA) that define roles and responsibilities
in the partnership;
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Establishing
an appropriate data sharing technology infrastructure;
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Jointly
acquiring those data sets commonly used by multiple partners to reduce
public expenditures (To date, this joint data acquisition has saved a
combined $114,000. When
all projects are completed, the CoCiGIS anticipates a savings of over
$538,000);
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A
commitment to improve existing information workflows through GIS and
related information technologies;
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Education
as a priority. The
Committee educates decision-makers, users and the public through
regular County-City GIS Committee meetings, regular presentations to
decision makers and the public, publication of meeting minutes via the
CoCiGIS web page, and participation in GIS day.
This strong educational effort has helped the community and
local governments understand and embrace the role of GIS in public
service.
Most
important is the spirit of cooperation and trust between the stakeholder
organizations. The GIS
representatives from each jurisdiction openly discuss, implement and
administer joint GIS activities on a daily basis.
CoCiGIS is also acting as a catalyst for other
types of consensus and collaborative activities such as increased data
sharing between County and City emergency services and joint use of a
computer-training lab.
For
more information about the CoCiGIS, please visit their website at http://www.ci.auburn.in.us/cocigis.
GIS combines layers of
information about a place to give you a better understanding of that
place. A full GIS, or
geographic information system, requires: hardware (computers and
peripherals), software, data, people, training and sound analysis methods
for interpreting the results generated by the GIS. |
