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Developing a Shared Strategic and Business Plan for the Calgary Consortium

This project will create a strategic and business geomatics plan for the Calgary Health Region (CHR) and the other members of the Calgary Consortium.

The primary goal of the project is to encourage Consortium members to adopt Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) standards.

The project will also develop a business model for incorporating a CGDI-compliant Web Mapping Service. This service will allow Consortium members to share geospatial datasets and display thematic data over the web to internal and external end-users.

In the project's first phase, interviews and document reviews will help appraise the Consortium's geomatics capacity. During the second phase, the project will help develop a multi-year geomatics business plan for the consortium.

The project's main users will be the program managers and service delivery professionals working for the CHR, the City of Calgary, the Calgary Board of Education, and United Way of Calgary and its affiliated agencies, and the public.

GeoConnections is assisting public health organizations to use geospatially referenced information about health status and factors that affect health. These factors can be biological, behavioural, social, economic, or cultural. Organizations use this information to make correlations and identify priorities and strategies to improve and protect health and the factors that influence it. In addition, public health organizations are expanding their knowledge and use of geospatial information and tools, which helps them analyze and share information. This project is funded under the Population Health Surveillance GeoConnections priority area.


Primary Partner: Calgary Health Region  Calgary,  Alberta;

Funding From GeoConnections: $15,600.00 ( 35.73 %)

Estimated Inception Date: May, 2007

Estimated Completion Date: August, 2007

Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Alberta;