The Strategic Use of Spatial Data for Urban Resilience

ICLEI Resilient Cities

Bonn, Germany

May, 2013

Mark Sorensen, CEO The GPC Group

Proposition

• GIS and its use has evolved from a technology to an information infrastructure

• Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), ubiquitous information flow, and tools for accessing and using information create new opportunities for understanding cities and projecting future scenarios

• Opportunity to leverage SDI and other Community Information Infrastructure to transform government and evolve new approaches to community sustainability and resilience

GIS provides computerized tools for capturing, managing, analyzing, and visualizing geographic information

GIS supports many different types of uses…….

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Module highlights:

Our Environment Status

GIS Can Be Used for Automated Cartography

More importantly, GIS has analysis, query and

visualization tools to support many important uses

Intro to GIS and Best Practices

Disaster Management

• Natural hazard assessment

• Resources at risk assessment

• Contingency plan preparation and drills

• Disaster response support

• Post-disaster recovery • Disaster resistant

community planning and design

2010 Haiti Earthquake

2004 Banda Aceh Tsunami

1994 Northridge , USA Earthquake

2011 Horn of Africa Famine

Disaster Management

GIS has been used extensively to aid in responses to nearly every major natural disaster since the early 1990’s

Climate Change

GIS provides a critical capability for understanding current and potential future impacts of climate change, and options for resiliency planning

• Climate change risk assessment and contingency planning

• Emissions reduction planning

• Carbon offsets project planning and design (REDD, Blue Carbon, etc.)

• Awareness building • Ongoing monitoring

and assessment

GIS provides the tools to understand and assess the intersection of local and regional natural and socioeconomic systems, and to plan and develop communities and economies that can evolve in ways that are sustainable, resilient and adaptable to disruptive change, and supportive of human and ecological well-being and social equity.

Project-based

Stand Alone

Enterprise

Coordinated

Spatial Data

Infrastructure

Cooperative

1980’s 1990’s 2000’s eSociety?

2010’s +

SDI 1.0 Entity 1 Entity 2 Entity 3 Entity 4 Entity 5 Entity 6 Entity 7

AD-SDI

ICT ICT

Common repository of Fundamental Geospatial Data

Sets (FGDS)

Incomplete adoption of information and communications

technology infrastructure as enterprise business solutions

Entity 1 Entity 2 Entity 3 Entity 4 Entity 5 Entity 6 Entity 7

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SDI 2.0

Long-Term Vision for Nation Set by Government Policy Agenda

How can GIS and

SDI contribute to the

achievement of this

agenda?

2030 Vision

2010

2011

2014 SDI Strategic Plan

Education, health &

infrastructure assets Large

empowered private sector

Creation of a sustainable

knowledge base economy

Emirate resource

optimization

Strong and diverse

international relationships

Complete international and domestic

security

An optimal transparent regulatory

environment

Gov. Policy Agenda:

Sustainable Development

Maintenance of Nation’s values,

culture and heritage

Contribution to Regional

Alignments

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SDI 3.0 is about Transformation

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Decision Support

Two Emerging Frontiers

Community Information

Infrastructure

Executive Dashboard framework

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Executive Dashboard Framework

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Decision Support

Two Emerging Frontiers

Community Information

Infrastructure

Ubiquitous Connectivity

Internet of things – spatially enabled

Ubiquitous Connectivity

Internet of things – spatially enabled

What about the 4 billion people that live on less than $3 per day??

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• Cell phone adoption faster than any other technology adoption in history;

• Mobile telephony and basic computing in wide usage in the developing world and growing rapidly;

• Basic technology only requires basic literacy, but encourages increased literacy and technology familiarity through usage for practical purposes.

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Community Information

Infrastructure

ICT4D and the informal economies

of the world

SDI3.0

Big Data

DSS

Social Media

F1 Advancing urban resilience through the strategic use of spatial data Presentations Date: Saturday, June 1, 2013 Time: 16:30-18:00 Rooms: S27-28

Is it worth exploring the potential for a track dedicated to “Smart Cities for Urban Resilience” for 2014 Conference??