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The first of two education forums was held on November 15, 2005. Its purpose was to investigate partnering opportunities with non-government entities to achieve priorities of local and regional government that serve the seven county, metropolitan area. The forum was entitled "Beyond Government Users: Further Directions for MetroGIS". The final report can be viewed at: http://www.metrogis.org/data\info_needs\beyond_govt\Meetings/forum_summary.pdf
In summary, forty-five candidate ideas for potential collaboration between government and non-government interests were identified in three broad topical areas:
- How can we work together to reduce costs?
- What innovations can we work together to develop?
- How can we promote a statewide GIS cooperative effort?
The next step will be to define and execute a process to decide which of the 45 identified ideas have the most promise, define in more detail top priority candidate opportunities, and pursue implementation. To guide these discussions, the MetroGIS Policy Board endorsed the following principles at its January 2006 meeting:
- Value added to public sector assets is encouraged provided it does not detract from the public sector objective.
- Contribution of assets to a collaborative solution assumes all parties view the transaction as equitable and relevant to their needs.
- Contributions can be comprised of funds, data, equipment and/or people.
- Equity is defined on an organization-by-organization basis and exists if the collaborative solution is more efficient than pursing the solution on one's own.
Created: August 2005
- John Carpenter, Excensus
- Rich Cornell, Metropolitan Council Learning and Development
- Will Craig, CURA
- Jessica Horning, Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association
- Jason Johnson, Welsh Companies
- Sally Wakefield, 1000 Friends of Minnesota
Staff: Randall Johnson, MetroGIS Staff
Coordinator
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