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Who is building the CGDI?

The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure is an initiative of the Government of Canada to respond to the challenge of providing Canadians better access to geospatial information, in order that social and economic decisions are taken with the benefit of the best available information. The CGDI is facilitated by GeoConnections.

GeoConnections is the national partnership initiative, led by Natural Resources Canada, in partnership with federal, provincial, territorial and private sector partners, that is helping to build the CGDI. The federal government is contributing $60 million towards the GeoConnections initiative, while provincial and territorial governments and the private sector are investing up to $50 million in funding, technology and expertise. GeoConnections enables federal, provincial and territorial governments, along with the private and academic sectors, to work together to build the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure, ensuring fast, consistent and harmonized access to geospatial information and services for all Canadians.

Of course, the success of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure depends on its users, like you. The more organizations and individuals using the CGDI as a forum for sharing geospatial information, the more geo-info will be available for sharing. The CGDI needs you!



 The task of building a national spatial data infrastructure like the CGDI is an enormous one, and GeoConnections has benefited from the support of countless partners. Click on GeoConnections collaborators for a list of partners in the GeoConnections initiative.

For more information about GeoConnections, please see the Guide to the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure available on the GeoConnections web site under Publications/Key Documents, and visit the GeoConnections web site at http://www.geoconnections.org.

Did you know?... Other federal government departments are learning from the CGDI's model for information management. During GTEC Week 2004 in Ottawa, GeoConnections demonstrated to the Treasury Board Secretariat how it is dealing successfully with inter-jurisdictional policy issues, complex partnerships and diverse client communities. What’s more, GeoConnections is delivering the CGDI through a very sophisticated, interoperable, service-based architecture.

The success of the CGDI is proof of the advantages of using standards-based technologies to deliver services over the Internet, and of using collaborative partnerships to transform intergovernmental relationships, and the services offered to both clients and partners.




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