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4 THE PARTNERSHIP MODEL
Pages 19-26

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... For the purposes of this discussion, a partnership is clefined as a joint activity of fecleral and state agencies, involving one or more agencies as joint principals focusing on geographic information. Local agencies and the private sector may also be involved.
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From page 20...
... The design of a spatial data partnership must address the needs of potential users beyond the partner agencies. How will such users gain access to the data; how will the data be clocumented and catalogued so that they are easy to find; how can the concerns of secondary users be represented in the process of data base design; how can society benefit to the greatest extent possible from this investment in spatial data?
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... It must, however, know where the data exist and be able to quickly assemble a variety of data to satisfy program objectives. It would be inconceivable that the federal government would enter into multiple partnership agreements for the same data set in a geographic area.
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From page 22...
... A state agency would pay according to the benefits it derived; a federal agency should contribute according to the benefits that it, other federal agencies, and the nation as a whole derived from the activity. However, it is difficult to assess the benefits of spatial data in any but the narrowest range of applications.
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From page 23...
... Such incentives could be provided through the monitoring and coordinating roles of the FGDC and state geographic information councils. Federal Procurement The complexity and length of the federal procurement process)
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... The state geographic information councils are the present clay response by states to provide focal points for coordination of spatial data needs. The size and diversity of thefederal system suggests that for viable partnerships some action must be taken to provide focal points within the federal government for coordinating data production and partnership activities.
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From page 25...
... Overall, there is a growing trend focusing on all geographic information and related technologies. A generalized organizational diagram describing statewide geographic information organizations is presented in Figure 2.
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From page 26...
... ( Organization N Figure 2. Generalized organizational diagram describing statewide geographic information organizations in 1993.
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