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If there is a single Web-enabled function that defines the leading edge of egovernment implementation, it is the presence of online GIS applications.
PSI's Municipality eGovernment Assessment Project (MeGAP) continues to indicate the flavor that online local government services are taking. It is increasingly clear that business as usual is transforming for local governments. eGovernment doesn't simply mean web-based access to the same services one gets by visiting city hall. eGovernment is transforming the services that are offered and they way that they're provided.
There is no finer example of this trend than online geographic information systems - or GIS.
Together with HDR Management Consulting, PSI Group is producing a series of white papers looking at the relationship between GIS implementation and the overall effort at egovernment implementation by local governments. The International City County Management Association is making these reports available to the members of its GIS Consortium and to its broader membership.
The first installment (pdf - 310kb) is complete.
Future installments will explore how GIS can provide local governments:
- Immediate value at a relatively low cost
- High utilization and therefore increased constituent outreach
- Increased demand for and interest in other online services
- Potential for revenue generation
- An opportunity to lead the way for organizational changes
The white paper series on GIS and egovernment has been an opportunity to broaden certain aspects of the MeGAP. The PSI Group has developed an ancillary assessment tool for providing detailed benchmarking and best practices information on GIS adoption by local governments.
Link to some of our preliminary results and methods.
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