This document discusses cloud and open source GIS. It highlights benefits like automated change management, flexible digital delivery, and data accuracy improvement. Open source is important because it allows for group collaboration, crowd sourcing, and benefits from many eyeballs finding bugs. Open source is now widely used including by 90% of supercomputers, 60% of internet servers, and 30% of smartphones. The cloud provides scalability and hosting for GIS applications and has enabled enterprise mapping, open data standards, and greater spatial analysis and adoption of GIS. While government has been slow to change, cloud and open source can help make government more transparent, efficient and user-oriented. There are still issues to address regarding data protection, security, standards

1. Cloud and open source GIS Tim Willoughby, Assistant Director, LGCSB

3. Information where and when it is required

4. Flexible digital delivery

5. Data Accuracy Improvement

7. Effective Communication Clear Messages Reduce Complexity Don’t have opinions on everything Good and Bad News

9. Security is changing Security has to be appropriate Security has to be measured Can have things so secure that they are unusable.

10. Cloud / Open is forcing ChangeWith or Without the Owners / Shareholders

12. So far ICT has not fundamentally changed government 1990s: lCT expectedto make government more transparent, efficient and user oriented 2005+: disillusion as bureaucracy still in existence Can Cloud Help? Jane E. Fountain – Gov 1.0 – Just Replicating the Silos on the Internet

13. Goverment dont always Understand What the people Want?

14. What governments often Deliver

15. why is crowd sourcing important? Crowd Source – Group Collaboration is more powerful than individual achievement 1

16. Typical Individual effort many hours, one map 2

17. OpenStreetMap, 2011 200,000 contributors, one map 3

18. why is open source important? "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." - Eric S. Raymond, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative 7

19. why is open source important? free speech

20. why is open source important? “Think free as in free speech, not free beer.” - Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation 10

21. who uses open source? 90% of supercomputers 60% of internet servers 30% of smart phones 11

22. What is Cloud? A pool of highly scalable, abstracted infrastructure, capable of hosting end-customer applications, that is billed by consumption.

23. What has Cloud ever done for GIS? 20 Apart from Scale, Enterprise Mapping, Open Data, Standards, Google, API’s, Open Street Maps, Map Servers, GIS - More than just Location, Spatial Analysis and wider adoption now possible

24. What do you need for GIS Hardware Software Data People Training Processes 13

25. Or.. Another way 22

26. Network Computers Servers Cloud 23 Hardware

27. GIS Software Data Software OS Software Network Software Open Source 24 Hardware Software

28. Evolving 25 Hardware Processes Standards Specifications Guidelines People / Training

29. We have lots GIS – About the Data.. Tools are important, standards more so Evolving 26 Hardware Data

30. Why do Government use GIS Massive demand for timely, relevant information — “picture says a 1000 words” Support decision making Provide users with all the information required to make an informed decision. Ability to integrate vast amounts of data within one View (Mashup) Exploit visualisation techniques to present information according to user preference (Raster, vector, 3D, tabular etc) Visualise /identify patterns/trends etc Personalisation Mobile 27

32. Need to know asset location for planning and maintenance

33. Many databases, varying accuracy and provenance

34. Context

35. Ongoing street openings p.a.

37. GIS Geographic Information System We have come a long way

38. Or Wizards GIS is now Mainstream

39. Still need Common Sense

40. Where we want to be?

41. Local Government and Open Source

42. The World is changing

44. open source / open data / cloudthe fix your street model

45. mobile apps – the new frontier of local government

46. Open Source – Pavement - Road Opening Management 39

47. from: physical, the (qr code), online source, & augmented reality

48. Social and Multi MediaResponding through innovation

49. Open Data AddressingPrime 2, Opportunities for change, GeoDirectory, PRA Security Surveillance, Privacy, Confidentiality, Standards Protocol for Use, Governance, Adoption, Developments, Enterprise Apps, Commercialisation, Economic Benefits, Education, Jobs Initiatives, Citizenship What does the citizen want from Open Data? 42

50. Open Data? 43

51. Final Innovation The Minister always has 5 Aces The Problem with a Bridge is...

52. Why Bother? 45

53. Are we There yet? No - Many issues to be sorted out Data Data Protection, Data Retention, Data Availability, Data Retrieval, Continuity, Backup, Continuity, Controllers v’s Processors Security Access Control, Where is my data, who has access to it, virtually, actually, physically SLA Standard for whole world, Specific for Government or you.. Legality Data Protection, Consumer Law, Liability for Breach, Contract Terms – Standardised.. Closed / Open Source Risk Cloud not specifically Regulated for – doesn't mean its not regulated Exit Provide for Exit in Contact – Interoperability of Cloud...Which Cloud 46