Welcome to the cIIF blog!
This blog is written by a team at Multimedia Victoria who work on the Collaborative Internet Innovation Fund (cIIF), a new Victorian Government funding program.
The team will be regularly posting on topics such as innovative uses of next generation ICT, what is happening in web 2.0, and inspirational projects from around the world.
We hope to motivate you to apply to cIIF program with your great project ideas, and encourage you to send us questions or to post comments on topics of interest.
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1 Louise Rose // Feb 10, 2009 at 3:55 pm
I am managing http://www.weplan.parks.vic.gov.au. The purpose of the site is to engage and collaborate with the community in reviewing the management plan for the Alpine area of Victoria. Much of the content will be available at face-to-face community open houses within the study in mid 2009.
2 Yvonne R Thompson // Apr 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I receive a weekly news feed by email from the Victorian Government’s eGovernment Resource Centre. The blog by Despina Babbage MMV http://citizenengagement.wordpress.com/ is an excellent innovation.
As a spatial information professional, the word “Maps” caught my eye in one of the blogrolls on her page, with discussion threads around the Public Participatory Geographic Information System (PPGIS) - an interactive web-based program where you can map the places you value and any impacts people in the community may have seen. http://www.weplan.parks.vic.gov.au/?q=node/138.
In my work for ESTA one of the challenges is to identify data custodians willing to supply the DSE spatial infrustructure area with quality place-based data for VicMap. We use this data in the digital maps in our dispatch systems to assist our staff of emergency calltakers and dispatchers to rapidly verify the location of an emergency caller, whether they are calling from the Melbourne CBD or in one of Victoria’s many parks.
Among the many data sets we require for the Victorian emergency services, is a single source (geocoded ) Chalet Data set, with correct addresses, maintained and kept up to date with the names of the facilities (eg Mt Hotham Chalet) . This requires a single custodian to ‘look after’ the data set.
I posted a request for help or advice on this, and also on the trails mapping. It is very helpful to have a forum in which to brainstorm, pool ideas and share knowledge.
Crowd sourcing for collecting, validating and most impoirtantly maintaining place-based (locational) data for mapping is a potentially interesting area of innovation developiing rapidly overseas.
WePlan is potentially a good starting point for demonstrating how we can integrate social media and technology and collate and that information into formal data management systems or products used by government agencies. A GIS layer of Chalet information for multi-users including emergency services would be a great demonstration of value. (the create once, use many times principal)
The public is an untapped resource of information, often overlooked by government in favour of ‘experts’ and consultants. However, wePlan wiki is the type of collaboration tool that has the potential, if integrated into other government business processes, to enhance citizens understanding and knowledge by sharing examples, and at the same time achieve the more broadly representative community consultation that government seeks.
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