Victorian Spatial Information Strategy 2008-2010
We are living in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world; it has been estimated that, at today's rate of progress, we will experience the equivalent of 20,000 years of progress in the next 100 years.
Significant challenges exist in continuing to deliver services in an equitable way, so that everyone benefits, and within the capacity of the environment to support the demands being placed on it.
Responses to these issues require multi-disciplinary approaches - drawing on science, economics, politics, history, and technology. Spatial Information can be a unifying medium - linking solutions to location.
The Victorian Spatial Information Strategy 2008-2010 charts some of the changes occurring in spatial information and technology, and sets out the key challenges they pose.
For the first time, the spatial information community as a whole, led by the Victorian Spatial Council, has played an integral role in developing the Strategy, and we all have a part to play in its delivery.
Through this Strategy, the Victorian Spatial Council paints the emerging landscape for spatial information in Victoria and sets the broad themes for facilitating the whole spatial information community's participation in that landscape and provides a strategic framework for the continuing development of Victoria's spatial information industry to 2010.
This strategy is vital for anyone currently using spatial information, or with an interest in it, whether in the traditional spatial information community, or others throughout all levels of government, the private sector, utilities, academia, the professions and the community.
Victorian Spatial Information Strategy 2008-2010 (PDF - 948 KB)
VSIS 2008-2010 Emerging Future Scan
This paper, prepared by Global Foresight Network for the use at the Victorian Spatial Information Strategy workshops held in July 2007, identifies trends and disruptions in and around the global geospatial sector over the next five to ten years.
"To navigate successfully into the future we need to think differently, because it is a place that none of us have been to. Each of us has a set of patterns in our head that help us to make sence of the world in which we live. These p[atterns are a combination of the things we have been taught, the experiences that we have had and the values that we believe in. All of these make up what could be termed a mental model. The more successful we have been the stronger is our current mental model."
VSIS 2008-2010 Emerging Future Scan (PDF - 2.8 Mb)
Development
This will be the fifth Victorian Spatial Information Strategy for Victoria, and the first to be led by the Victorian Spatial Council.
VSIS 2008-2010 will consider the influences and impacts of changes in the way spatial information is being delivered and used, and the strategic and policy requirements for addressing them.
The development of the strategy will be undertaken with wide spatial information community consultation.
The key idea behind the Strategy is that as the infrastructure for delivering spatial information has become more sophisticated, more of it is being placed in the hands of all kinds of users, and new ways of presenting and applying it are being stimulated.
The Council will host a series of workshops with invited participants to develop the key themes that will be addressed by the 2008-2010 Strategy.
VSIS 2008-2010 workshop series background paper (PDF - 777 Kb)
VSIS 2008-2010 Introduction
The development of the VSIS 2008-2010 Strategy began on 14 December 2006 at the VSC Forum'Where to next for the spatial information industry?', with the Strategy being further developed during the second half of 2007. The paper below provides details of the development process.
VSIS 2008-2010 Development Introduction (PDF - 41 Kb)
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