The State of Utah has engaged Applied Geographics, Inc. (AppGeo) to support the development of statewide GIS Strategic and Business Plans.
"Utah’s GIS Advisory Council looks forward to working with Applied Geographics and the geospatial community in Utah to develop our first ever comprehensive geospatial strategic plan,” said Dennis Goreham, Manager of the Automated Geographic Reference Center, Division of Information Technology. “Working with Applied Geographics, we anticipate this activity will include broader participation and result in better processes and products that doing it on our own."
“This project represents a unique collaboration due to the fact that Utah, through the efforts of the GIS Advisory Council, intends to author the plans themselves,” said Michael Terner, Executive Vice President of AppGeo. “We will help the Council reach out to stakeholders to inform the plan. Our experience participating in statewide GIS strategic and business planning processes in nine other states allows us to effectively coach the state while also providing insights into the strategies that have been effective elsewhere.”
AppGeo’s role is to facilitate regional workshops for GIS stakeholders, to work with the GIS Advisory Council and project Steering Committee to analyze information gathered from the stakeholders, and to formulate recommendations for advancing Utah’s statewide spatial data infrastructure. Utah will author the strategic and business plans.
The project will use the GIS Strategic and Business Plan Templates developed by AppGeo under contract to the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) in support of the FGDC’s Fifty States Initiative.
The project is funded through an FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee) Cooperative Agreements Program Grant. AppGeo’s past project support for statewide GIS strategic and business planning includes Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Wyoming.
Source: AppGeo
