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National Spatial Data Infrastructure Partnership Programs: Rethinking the Focus (2001)

Chapter: COMMUNITY-FEDERAL INFORMATION PARTNERSHIPS

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Suggested Citation:"COMMUNITY-FEDERAL INFORMATION PARTNERSHIPS." National Research Council. 2001. National Spatial Data Infrastructure Partnership Programs: Rethinking the Focus. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10241.
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REVIEW OF NSDI PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS 29 and support. The focus of the projects was on “the capacity to acquire, deliver and use geospatial data and tools in a decision making process.” The report also suggests that: “…Federal grant dollars can provide an effective incentive for communities to embrace NSDI standards and serve as “seed money” for purposes of leveraging financial and technical resources from other sources…. The NSDI community should initiate and expand projects to initiate a national infrastructure that focused on community data and information needs and eliminates barriers that communities face in working with the Federal government to build place based information management systems.” It is important to note that in June 2000, the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) gave a Hammer Award to the NSDI Community Demonstration Projects. The NPR is an interagency task force established in 1993 to find ways to make government “…work better, cost less and get results Americans care about…” (NPR, 1993). This award recognizes exceptional achievement in reinventing government. The Community Demonstration Projects were recognized because they show the benefits that can be realized by an expanded sharing of geographic information among federal and local agencies. While the Hammer Awards may not represent a very rigorous evaluation of the merits of these projects, the committee believes that it is significant that NSDI-oriented projects supported by the FGDC are being recognized as important ways to make government more cost effective and efficient. COMMUNITY-FEDERAL INFORMATION PARTNERSHIPS Development of the Community-Federal Information Partnerships (CFIP) concept was proposed in 1998 as an initiative involving several federal agencies; it evolved into a $20 million proposal in new federal funding in FY 2001. Its goals are similar to those of the Community Demonstration Projects, but encompass a much broader domain and with a much higher level of federal investment. The CFIP

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The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) was envisioned as a way of enhancing the accessibility, communication, and use of geospatial data to support a wide variety of decisions at all levels of society. The goals of the NSDI are to reduce redundancy in geospatial data creation and maintenance, reduce the costs of geospatial data creation and maintenance, improve access to geospatial data, and improve the accuracy of geospatial data used by the broader community. At the core of the NSDI is the concept of partnerships, or collaborations, between different agencies, corporations, institutions, and levels of government. In a previous report, the Mapping Science Committee (MSC) defined a partnership as "...a joint activity of federal and state agencies, involving one or more agencies as joint principals focusing on geographic information." The concept of partnerships was built on the foundation of shared responsibilities, shared costs, shared benefits, and shared control. Partnerships are designed to share the costs of creation and maintenance of geospatial data, seeking to avoid unnecessary duplication, and to make it possible for data collected by one agency at a high level of spatial detail to be used by another agency in more generalized form.

Over the past seven years, a series of funding programs administered by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) has stimulated the creation of such partnerships, and thereby promoted the objectives of the NSDI, by raising awareness of the need for a coordinated national approach to geospatial data creation, maintenance, and use. They include the NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program, the Framework Demonstration Projects Program, the Community Demonstration Projects, and the Community-Federal Information Partnerships proposal. This report assesses the success of the FGDC partnership programs that have been established between the federal government and state and local government, industry, and academic communities in promoting the objectives of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

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