A new website for the NI GI Strategy is currently under construction and is due to go live this summer 2010. Please check back then.
Welcome to the Geographic Information (GI) Strategy for Northern Ireland website holding page.
Over the coming months we will post regular updates on the progress we are making to implement the Strategy. There will also be information on similar work that is happening across Europe and beyond. Please check back soon to find out more.
ABOUT THE GI STRATEGY
This Strategy builds on the success of the 2003 GI Strategy for Northern Ireland.
It aims to develop an infrastructure
to ensure the effective use of locational information in Northern Ireland. The aim is that by 2019 Northern
Ireland will be a spatially enabled society in which government use GI as a decision making tool,
businesses use GI to increase efficiency, and the public are actively using GI - all on a daily basis.
The vision of the Strategy is:
We
will
improve services and thereby develop the economy, the environment, and the society of Northern Ireland
by placing information about location at everyone’s fingertips and supporting the development of sufficient
skills and knowledge to exploit this information.
LATEST NEWS
The
GI Strategy for Northern Ireland 2009 – 2019 was officially endorsed by the
Minister
for Finance, Nigel Dodds OBE MP MLA, and the Northern Ireland Executive on the 5th March 2009.
The
Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP),
through Land & Property Services (LPS), coordinated the development of the new Strategy. A wide
range
of stakeholders from across all Northern Ireland Civil Service departments, the private sector and academia
were invited to participate
in the development of the strategy through online questionnaires, a stakeholder consultation day and
a blog website. Their participation was key to the successful development of the Strategy. Input was
also invited from the wider community including Great Britain, Ireland and Europe.
To
download a copy of the Strategy click here or on the image below.
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