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National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) Community of Practice

National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) Community of Practice. Learning Phase Workshop II Federal Level Users January 6, 2004. What is NICS?. Web-based utility for community-level statistics from 1000s of federal, state, local, and private data sources

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National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) Community of Practice

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  1. National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) Community of Practice Learning Phase Workshop II Federal Level Users January 6, 2004

  2. What is NICS? • Web-based utility for community-level statistics from 1000s of federal, state, local, and private data sources • Defined by needs of its community of users—as expressed through this community of practice

  3. MissionNICS Community of Practice • The NICS CoP will facilitate the development of • An integrated, web-based national infrastructure • Providing widespread access to community statistics from local, state, and national sources • On socioeconomic and geophysical topics.

  4. What value will NICS add? • Make community data more transparent, available and accessible • Support better public choice and inform public debate • Spur private investment, driving new markets • Empower communities to determine their own future

  5. What will NICS provide? • NICS leverages numerous parallel efforts to: • Overcome idiosyncratic, fragmented community indicators throughout the US • Build on state and federal investments in significant e-government initiatives • Complement multiple federal efforts on community statistics and mapping

  6. State Agencies State Data Users Federal Agencies Community Data Users National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) Commercial Private Sector Users Foundation/ Investor Users NICS Community of Practice

  7. State Agencies • NGA • State CIOs (NASCIO) • State DHS, Health, Jobs • State Budget Offices (NASBO) • State Data Centers (Census) • State Archives • Community Data Users • Municipalities • Metro Planning Orgs. • Community-based Orgs. • Data Intermediaries • -- CSS Network • -- NNIP • -- Census Info Ctrs. • Indicators groups--poverty, sustainability, asset-building • Federal Agencies • Federal Statistical Agencies (Census, BLS, BEA, NCHS, etc.) • Federal Program Agencies (e.g., EDA, ETA, FHwA) • Federal Management Orgs. (OMB, GAO, CIO Council) National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) • Nonprofit • DataPlex (Fannie Mae Foundation • KNII (National Academy of Sciences) • Foundation/ Investor Users • Outcomes data • Comparative data • Performance measurement • Success Measures • SIA Models • Commercial • Data Providers • Value-added Data Intermediaries • Market Research • Analysts NICS Community of Practice

  8. State Agencies State Data Users Federal Agencies Community Data Users • Data • Comparisons • Analysis • Live links to data sources • Metadata standards • Web-service tools National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) Commercial Private Sector Users Foundation/ Investor Users • NICS Community of Practice • Collaboratively plan and invest • Standard interface, metadata, tools

  9. Overall NICS Development Process • Phase I: Develop concept • Phase II: Understanding User Needs for NICS • Local, state, federal, private, non profit • Phase III: Build business plan to implement NICS • Lots of players, lots of parts!

  10. Where are we now?What’s next?

  11. Clear consensus has emerged on NICS strategy… • Opportunistic—leverage ongoing projects into “use cases” and adopt as part of framework • Systematic—use NICS forum to influence and rationlize cross-agency, cross-domain data efforts on community statistics • Action-oriented—begin to roll out “use cases” quickly that can identify and demonstrate solutions to key NICS design and implementation issues

  12. NICS Priority Areas • Metadata standards approach and forum • Data transformation tools and middleware for federated data repositories or virtual data warehouses • Institutional/technical “use cases” and pilots

  13. Possible “use cases” under discussion • EPA Region 4 Technology Demonstration • LED • Multistate, multiagency eligibility tool • KNII prototype “back end” • “Information Commons” approach • Local Virtual Data Warehouse efforts • Boston, Memphis, Indianapolis, Chicago • State of California/California Technology Foundation

  14. Money and Staff • Foundations remain strongly interested • NSF has encouraged NICS application • Continuously monitoring and following up on in-kind opportunities, such as EPA Region 4, Census IDS, etc. • Dedicated NICS CoP staff obtained to manage business plan development process • Jeannette Aspden

  15. What next? • February 16, 2004: Final learning phase meeting devoted to national non-profits and commercial organizations – Troy Anderson • March CoP meeting: • Discuss findings from “learning phase” • Needs of various levels of users • Key barriers and issues to be addressed • Focus on “cross domain” and “cross agency” issues • Agree on key functions/ priorities for NICS • Select “use cases” to identify/demonstrate design issues for NICS • Agree on business plan development process

  16. Next Steps • April 2004-July 2004 • Business Plan development • Launch and implement “use cases”

  17. Goals for Today’s Meeting • Understand what federal-level users would like to see in NICS • Determine how NICS can work together with other efforts being undertaken by federal agencies and potential user • Learn from state-level initiatives to inform the development of NICS • Develop common understanding of federal role in NICS • Participation, support of “use cases”, broadcast and advocate for NICS, common framework for investment in ongoing projects

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