A Spatial Strategy is not enough - Nova Scotia
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A Spatial Strategy is not enough
James Boxall FRGS FRCGS
Director, Dalhousie University GIScience Centre
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PICTURE
STARTSTART
“We didn’t worry too much……….
until the guys on the moon started jumping up and down”
Eleanor Foracker
(head seamstress)
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Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 [email protected]
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Legacies changing the world view
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Not one person
400,000
A group, a goal
Real buy-in
3-4% vs. 50%
The ant vs. the beetle
A town vs. a regionA town vs. a region
The EU and NZ
You will ask me later
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What we once thought is not reality
What are our opportunities to
align and deepen support?
Simply put:
too many groupstoo many groups
too fractured by location and members
too alike in goals and missions
too few joint efforts
too little time and energy
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Spatial Information Industry
Action Agenda
established by Government to
assist emerging industries
Aligned and supporting
Co-operative Research Centre
for Spatial Information (CRCSI)
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One step takes many supporters but eventually
only you can take that first leap into the unknown
Macrowikinomics
VGI PPGIS
Neutral
Collaborative
Open Sharing Foundation
Long term view
Disparity and deprivationDisparity and deprivation
Democracy of information
Just words, right?
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Alexandria and Eratosthenes
ADL
Digital Earth (hint)
Al Gore and Jack and Alex
Mike and Moon shots (and DE?)Mike and Moon shots (and DE?)
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25 Grand Challenges (Hamel, HBR 2009)
- serve a higher purpose
- embed communities and citizenship
- reduce fear; increase trust
- strategy as emergent process
- reduce pull of the past
- stretch time- stretch time
- empower renegades
- unleash imagination
- enable passion
- retool for an open world
- retrain managerial minds
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Risk, uncertainty and being adaptable
17 seconds,
a broken switch
and a stuck hatch
Cooperation, trust and one goal
2.7hrs 2.7hrs
24 billion
Global change:
priceless
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