Opportunities
Announcement of funding opportunity for publishing thematic data for decision-making in priority areas
March 17 2009 - May 01 2009
GeoConnections is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity. In order to increase the ease of information sharing of Canadian geographic data, the program is now soliciting proposals for projects to publish location-based, or 'geospatial', data online through the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI).
With this funding opportunity, GeoConnections is aiming to increase the supply of interoperable and reliable geospatial data accessible online through the CGDI and to support the data requirements of the following user communities:
- Public Health: Facilitating Population Health Surveillance or Health Emergency Response and Inter-Emergency Planning
- Public Safety and Security: Facilitating Critical Infrastructure Identification or Situational Awareness & Management of Consequences
- Environment and Sustainable Development: Facilitating Land-Use Planning or Environmental Assessment
- Matters of Importance to Aboriginal People: Facilitating Land and Resource Management/Community Planning
Projects will fit within one of these two categories:
- Category 1: Publishing Thematic Datasets: typically involving one authoritative data producer interested in making one or more discrete datasets available;
- Category 2: Enabling Access to and Publishing Thematic Data Stores: typically representing an enterprise-wide or multi-agency collaborative effort to make available a large collection of location-based information
Expressions of interest will be accepted from data suppliers from government departments or agencies (local, regional, provincial, territorial, or federal), Crown corporations, academic institutions, the private sector, and non-government and Aboriginal organizations until May 1, 2009.
For more information regarding this opportunity, see the full announcement at: Thematic Data.
For all enquiries contact:
Ken Marshall
Content Advisor, GeoConnections
Telephone: (613) 947-7074
Email: ken.marshall@nrcan.gc.ca