Podcast: A GIO for DOI: Implications and Questions

By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
August 12, 2008

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Last week Secretary Kempthorne announced plans to appoint a Geographic Information Officer, or GIO, for the Department of the Interior. After having a week to ponder the announcement, our editors raise some practical and political questions about the position and who may fill it.

Show notes:

Karen Siderelis is Named USGS Geographic Information Officer (press release)
GIO Leads Geospatial Enterprise(Military Geospatial Technology article on Army's GIO
NSGIC
National Geospatial Advisory Committee Endorses IFTN, Looks for Input (All Points Blog)
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GIO - research source (#1) by Ann, DOI
Date: August 12, 2008 23:53 PM

Enterprise Geographic Information Management (EGIM) - for more see:

http://www.nps.gov/gis/egim/

Thanks for the correction!

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