Wednesday, March 18. 2009

Study: GIS is Here to Stay in Government

Datamonitor put out the report titled "Where in the City? Using GIS to Manage Government Information." The company, of which I'd not heard until a few days ago, offers a report that says nothing most in the industry don't already know. Report author Ben Madgett: "The technology is now in wide demand at all levels of government, and across geographies as well. It’s safe to say GIS has hit the tipping point in government."

The new stat we can quote: "Nearly three quarters of government agencies in Europe and North America have, or plan to, implement geographic information systems (GIS), with over half of agencies surveyed having implemented GIS in the past 12 months." The reason? Demand from constituents.

I can't find anything about the report at Datamonitor.com (from Datamonitor: you must register to get information about the report; I chose not to do so), but you can get further info via this page.

- Silicon Republic

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Geospatial Business at 06:20 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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