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)

�Foam mattresses�LED�Reflective materials�Scratch resistant glass�Freeze drying �Cordless tools�Cordless tools�The dust buster

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca

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

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca

GIScience Education Card

Challenge

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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)

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca

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?)

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca

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

Spring into Geomatics, Truro, May 2011 james.boxall@dal.ca