Coming Soon: NZ Chapter of ASIBA
In short, key players are supportive of plans to stretch the boundaries of the Australian Spatial Information Business Association (ASIBA) to New Zealand. “ASIBA is an industry organisation, formed to condense around 35 former industry groups into one, with four pillars. They are: academics, individual professionals, business and government.” Major players are a recent conference and The New Zealand Geospatial Office applauded the formal request.
One reason for the move:
The country police put out an RFP for a national address register. Per Steve Critchlow, executive director of GIS specialist Critchlow:
“They wanted everything and they wanted to impose unlimited liability,” Critchlow says. “Three consortia were formed, we probably all spent around $200,000 working through the Christmas period, then the steering committee pulled the plug on the grounds it was too costly.
There’s one other tidbits of note in the article:
...a study that found between A$6 billion and A$12 billion (NZ$7.6 billion and NZ$15.2 billion) was added to Australia’s gross domestic product by spatially enabling Australian government.
