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ICT Strategy. Pan-Government GIS and Geospatial Services. Strategic Context. GIS in Context. Geographic Information (GI) and Location referencing is a UK-wide issue External influences include: HMG’s transformational government strategy The Location Strategy for the UK
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ICT Strategy Pan-Government GIS and Geospatial Services
GIS in Context • Geographic Information (GI) and Location referencing is a UK-wide issue • External influences include: • HMG’s transformational government strategy • The Location Strategy for the UK • INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community) • The Pan Government Agreement (PGA2) • The Traffic Management Act • The Civil Contingencies Act
Application of location information to public policy Source: “Place matters:the Location Strategy for the United Kingdom”
Strategic implications • To ensure that the UK exploits the full value of its information the Location Strategy requires a programme of strategic actions which ensure that: • we know what data we have, and avoid duplicating it • we use common reference data so we know we are talking about the same places • we can share location-related information easily through a common infrastructure of standards, technology and business relationships • Each department and public sector body should ensure that its IS/IT strategy and work programme describes clearly its policies and implementation plans for location data systems.
Shared Infrastructure • The CIO Council will be driving forward ICT infrastructures for sharing across Government agencies • Building on exemplars like Defra’s SPIRE • And on other initiatives such as the: • PGA2; • Public Sector Network (Ocean Programme); and • National Resilience Extranet (NRE)
National Spatial Data Infrastructure Geographic Rights Management (GeoRM): this layer provides overall workflow control, consisting of authentication, authorisation, pricing, billing, licensing etc. Flexible architecture supports EU, national, thematic and organisational access to EU-wide data with a standardised design approach and applications and data made available through web services to enable re-use and interoperability
EU Federated Approach EU Integration of service buses allows application and data services to be shared across EU and between Member States Architecture replicated in each Member State for ‘local’ services and in EU for ‘EU-wide’ services Member State Member State Member State
The Civil Contingencies Act • Key to the Act is a definition of what constitutes an emergency: • An event or situation which threatens serious damage to human welfare; • An event or situation which threatens serious damage to the environment; • War, or terrorism, which threatens serious damage to security. • Part 1 of the Act focuses on preparations by local responders for localised emergencies; and • Part 2 sets out the means to establish emergency powers for very serious emergencies which affect a larger geographical area. • For the act itself, the accompanying regulations, issues in relation to the devolved administrations and guidance consult www.ukresilience.info.
Cat 1/2 Responders Category 1 Category 2
Integrated Emergency Management • Under the Act local responders have a duty to share information. • Requires the 5C’s: • Command – the ability to effectively direct operations at levels from the strategic, through tactical to operational; • Control – the ability to ensure that directions are implemented in line with the command instructions; • Co-ordination – the ability to ensure that activities of individual agencies and personnel within agencies are working in concert towards common objectives; • Co-operation – the ability for individuals and organisations to work effectively and efficiently together in pursuit of common objectives; • Communication – the ability to derive and pass information between individuals and organisations in an effective way.
The Information Gap The Information Demand-Provision Gap following an emergency event (based on work by Peter Power, Visor Consultants, 2004).
Information Processes • A whole series of processes are involved in handling and communicating information, including:
Interference in Communication Interference (either ‘environmental’ or ‘human’) in transmission and personal interpretation can mean that the received message is different to the message that was (understood to be) sent. Certain steps have to be taken to ensure clarity and unambiguity of message and purpose in all communications, including mapping. Messages must not only be received but also correctly understood.
The Vision for the NRE • To provide a common system that will enable the timely, efficient and secure communication and exchange of information amongst everyone in the resilience community. • For routine planning and during the response to emergencies. • To enable access to and sharing of RESTRICTED level documents. • A resilient browser based collaborative working tool, secure to Level 3 (RESTRICTED). • To provide an easily accessible library of templates and information. • To provide a tool that can render a level of "standardisation” and interoperability. • To provide a system that is affordable.
The Supplier/Service • Contract for the NRE awarded to BT and Ultra Electronics Datel. • Ultra Electronics Datel established supplier of products to the resilience community – ATLAS OPS and ATLAS AIMS. • Providing secure collaborative Restricted environments to Government since 1996. • Experience of providing contingency planning and incident response applications to category 1 and 2 Responders since 1998. • Hosted managed subscriber based service. • Will run across GSI-accredited networks (GSI,PNN,GCSX). • Will also be accessible via secure Internet connection for users when they are out of the office or do not otherwise have access to a GSI-accredited network
ATLAS OPS: Additional Geographic Information Systems Package ATLAS AIMS: Optional Emergency Information Management Package ATLAS Collaborate: CoreDay to day Information Sharing and Collaborative Working Package Document Storage Calendar What’s New Events Message Log GIS Package Briefings (including SitReps) Tasks Glossary Brokerage Facility Public Website Links Contacts Log Instant Messenger Receipted Message Store Online Booking Facility Plans Discussion Board The Packages
Summary of the Key Benefits • Fast and secure dissemination of information across the resilience community. • Secure web based environment accessed via secure login that will make key information for responders more readily accessible both day to day and in times of emergency. • Ability to store and share RESTRICTED level information . • Facilitates collaborative working between the National, Regional and Local Levels. • Reduces the administration burden on organisations when sharing information. • Provides a central common storage area for the sharing and access to good practice and central government briefings including information on risks and planning assumptions. • Fully managed hosted service with a large central storage capacities . • Affordable subscription costs.
Timeline • Contract awarded September 2008 • Requirements definition workshops – October 2008 • Functional Specification Agreed Nov/Dec 2008 • Begin system development – Dec 2008 • User Acceptance Testing - during 2009 • Pilot - during 2009 • Launch of Service – during 2009
Options being considered Source: Arup
HA/UK Federated Approach UK Pan-Government Integration of service buses allows application and data services to be shared across UK and between Agencies Architecture replicated in each Agency for ‘local’ services and in UK for ‘UK-wide’ services Local Authorities Highways Agency Police
Conclusions • Incident Management is currently classed as “Operational Management” with internal focus • Needs to be considered more as: • Collaboration • Cross-Agency (Pan-Government) • Outward focussed • Extended Enterprise business processes similar to Crisis Management on a smaller scale • The HA and UK visions are aligned in terms of: • Common Services and Re-use • Service Bus • A Federated Approach • Open Standards (INSPIRE) • Information Sharing
