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Renewed GeoConnections
The 2010 Federal Budget announced renewed funding for the GeoConnections program. The Budget provides $11 million in funding over the next two years to continue development of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and to provide consolidated geographic-related information to Canadians via the Internet.
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Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Coalition on Sustainability - Strategic Plan for Building a Regional Sustainability Atlas
The Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Coalition on Sustainability intends to develop a strategic plan that will help it build an Internet-based regional sustainability atlas. This atlas will assist the coalition's 54 members and other partners to coordinate how they collect, manage and deliver data. The strategic plan and sustainability atlas will also present coalition members and partners with an important opportunity to collaborate.
Currently, the coalition's numerous independent members have difficulty sharing monitoring data and other information gathered in the Southern Gulf region. These community groups capture and store monitoring data using various techniques that are often incompatible. As a result, this data tends not to be shared, which limits the ability of coalition members to compare trends, detect problems and manage their ecosystems effectively.
The strategic plan will illustrate how the regional sustainability atlas can incorporate Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) standards, meet the needs of its various intended users and become an effective tool for managing integrated ecosystems. By building upon the CGDI data-delivery model using a standards-based approach, coalition members will be able to share data rather than working in isolation.
Primary Partner:
Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Coalition on Sustainability
Moncton,
New Brunswick,
Partners:
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Oceans and Science Branch;
New Brunswick Community College
Sustainable Communities and Ecosystems,
WC, Sentinel Systems Ltd.
Funding From GeoConnections: $35,400.00 ( 40.32 %)
Estimated Inception Date: November, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: May, 2008
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: New Brunswick;