Two articles published by the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office describe the Wisconsin Geographic Information Coordination Council (WIGICC) effort as well as the intent and format of the listening sessions:
Each listening session will last roughly 3.5 hours and will be divided into 4 sections:
Two short presentations will be given at the beginning of each listening session:
To facilitate the process of creating a geographic information coordination council, the State Geographic Information Officer (GIO), Wisconsin Department of Administration, assembled an ad hoc working group under a 2006 Federal Geographic Data Committee (FDGC) grant. To date, the following products have been developed:
The following DRAFT set of criteria are intended be used to evaluate possible models for a geographic information coordination council for Wisconsin.
These initial concepts for a geographic information coordination council - in the form of two DRAFT governance models - were based on what the working group judged to be good features of other states' programs, adapted to the Wisconsin context. The models provided are NOT recommendations, but rather are intended to generate comments and discussion. Additional proposed models and ideas are welcome and encouraged.
The Geographic Information Officer contracted with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to research and to review eight other states’ geographic information technologies (GIT) governance models.
DocumentsFederal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Grant.
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