Session Abstract

Alberta Capitial Region GIS: A Shared Academic, Goverment, & Community SDI

I probally only need a half an hour folks... 40 min... at the most.

This session will outline the benefits and or synergy of a shared or joint GIS between the University of Alberta, 23 local governments in the Edmonton Region, and 12 special interest stakeholder group i.e. emergency response, community development, etc... Modeled after a spatial data infrastructure, this project expands the concept to include research carried out by the university in the context of a regional studies centre and a GIS Sciences Institute. The 23 local governments provide the framework data, while the 12 plus special interest groups feed their thematic data to the RGIS while leveraging the underlying infrastructure for data storage and application development. Attendees will gain great insight into the synergy and benefits that geo-spatial partnering can provide.

Speaker Biography

David Dubauskas

David Dubauskas is Alberta Capital Regional Alliance’s (ACRA) Project Manager for their GIS. David has nearly 20 years of experience working with spatial information systems in a local government context. David has accreditation in GIS from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), Simon Fraser University, and also holds a Master of Science in GIS from the University of Huddersfield, U.K. David’s Master of Science dissertation entitled “A Conceptual Business Model for a Regional Multi-Participant Local Government GIS was well received by the University of Huddersfield. The GIS projects that he has been associated with have received various national and international awards.