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More than
a Map: How Government Agencies are Collaboratively using Geographic
Information For Better Public Services
In the face of tightening budgets and increasing demands for government
services, Governor Schwarzenegger has challenged state agencies
for more effective action through innovative, collaborative, sustainable
and adaptive decision making. Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
especially when combined with the Internet, offer unique and powerful
capabilities responsive to the Governor's directives.
Join Host Teri Takai, California’s
State Chief Information Officer, for a policy and solutions
briefing June 19, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento. This
briefing is for Departmental Directors and other executive policy
makers and is designed to allow them to learn how government
organizations, across the nation are utilizing GIS to improve
service delivery and how California Agencies can benefit from
their experiences.
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SHOULD ATTEND:
Senior Public Sector Policy Executives
Department and Agency Directors
Department and Agency Information Technology and Geospatial
Executives
Program and Policy Directors
EVENT DETAILS:
The Strategic and Tactical value
of GIS - Effective understanding and utilization of Geospatially
based policy and business decisions can improve the operation
of California State Government in the following areas:
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A Safer California
– California State Fire Marshall Kate
Dargan will discuss how GIS tools can help assist preparation
response and recovery from all forms of disasters. GIS also
serves to improve Public safety and homeland security services
by helping government agencies safeguard our citizens, borders,
and critical infrastructure.
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Growing California
– Public Information Officer California Department of
Transportation Bart
Ney will discuss the San Francisco Bay Bridge project
and the role GIS can play in helping to enable effective policy
decisions that help local government and citizens understand
how to plan land use, the construction of critical infrastructure
to accommodate growing populations while balancing quality
of life, economic opportunities, preserving natural resources,
avoiding disproportionate impacts to disadvantaged communities
(e.g., environmental justice) and minimizing our carbon foot
print.
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A Healthy California
– The Director of the Office of Statewide Health Planning
and Development, David
M. Carlisle, M.D., Ph.D. will show how GIS promotes Californians'
health by helping to quickly locate and deliver health care
services, identifying gaps in service, facilitating response
to disease outbreaks and food borne contamination, and fostering
the understanding of the link between the sources of pollution
and threats to public health.
- Mobilizing
California
– Caltrans Chief Deputy Director Randy
Iwasaki will discuss how GIS was employed in the California
511 web site to inform the traveling public on road and traffic
conditions across the state. GIS based assistance is critical
to the planning of transportation, utilities, broadband and
other communication infrastructure that will physically or
electronically connect us in the future.
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Open California
–Google Chief Technology Advocate, Michael
Jones will look at ways that information based policy
decisions on government expenditures and investment of public
resources, enable broader public participation in government
decisions, ensure fair and equitable representation, and generally
promote participatory democracy.
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Greener California – Executive Director Sacramento
Area Council of Governments, Mike
McKeever will cover California’s first Blueprint Study
for Land Use Transportation and Air Quality connecting the
public’s understanding of how what happens in their own neighborhood,
or on the parcel next door, is connected to the larger issues
of how California can continue to grow in a way that has less
impact on our region’s air quality. GIS Information is critical
in helping Department and Program Executives understand the
consequences of their activities on global warming, identify
and mitigate sources of greenhouse gases, find, plan, build
and exploit alternate energy sources, and monitor the effectiveness
of our efforts.
The afternoon will be committed
to “The Future of Where”: The possibilities that GIS will offer
governments of the future.
All attendees are invited to a
closing reception between 4:30pm and 6 pm.
Each attendee is encouraged to
tour the Solution
Center and vote for their choice of "Coolest",
"The Most Innovative" and "The Best of Show"
solutions. Please plan on attending the awards reception at
the end of the event.
PRESENTERS:
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Teri
Takai
Chief Information Officer
State of California
Conference
Host
On December
6, 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the
appointment of Teri Takai as Chief Information Officer
for the State of California. As a member of the Governor's
cabinet, she advises him on the strategic management and
direction of information technology resources as the state
works to modernize and transform the way California does
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Cy
Smith
Statewide GIS Cordinator
State of Oregon
Keynote
Speaker
Oregon Statewide GIS Coordinator
and a member of the Oregon Geographic Information Council.
He is the President of the National States Geographic
Information Council (NSGIC) and has worked in the geographic
information field for 22 years. |
Eric
Swanson
Director MCGI - IT
State of Michigan
Keynote
Speaker
Director of the Michigan Center
for Geographic Information (MCGI) within the Department
of Information Technology. Eric has developed the process
and necessary business relationships to integrate the
State’s Geographic Information Technology (GIT) efforts
resulting in consistent and accurate decision making tools
being made available across state and local government.
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Jim
Geringer
Former Governor
State of Wyoming
Lunch
Speaker
As Wyoming Governor, Jim Geringer
focused on improving education, modernized economic planning
to include technology, changed how resource agencies among
state, federal and local governments worked together,
implemented strategic planning tied to performance based
budgeting and he emphasized community based solutions
for health and social services.
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