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GeoInsight
Overview | Flood | Bushfire | Storm | Data
Capture | Future | Doing
Business
Media Release
GeoInsight Resource Kit Launch - 28
March, 2003
EMERGENCY MANAGERS GET AUSTRALIAN FIRST SPATIAL INFORMATION
RESOURCE
A spatial information resource to make emergency
managers more
aware of the benefits of geospatial technologies
in managing disasters was launched by Mr Gary Nairn
MP in Canberra
on Friday 28 March 2003. More than 80 guests and
media attended.
The completion of the GeoInsight Resource Kit, which
is being sent to 3000 emergency services personnel
and geospatial
businesses, comes as the ACT Region recovers from
its worst recorded bushfires.
“
It is estimated that up to 80% of the information that fire fighters
and others need in an emergency has a geographic element and
is therefore spatial in nature”, said GeoInsight Project
Director, Mr Nik Fominas. “Australian companies with GIS
and other spatial technologies can provide a complete range of
spatial products and capability to help emergency managers analyse
risk, respond to and recover from bushfires, floods, cyclones
and other natural disasters”.
It is conservatively estimated that the additional
demand stimulated by GeoInsight for spatial
information products
and services
in the emergency management community could
rise by about 50% over
the next 3 years – equivalent to an additional
$60 million per year.
Technik Pty Ltd, a Canberra-based special projects
facilitation company, developed the GeoInsight
Resource Kit following
discussions, seminars and briefings to emergency
management and spatial
industry organisations over the past 18 months.
The multimedia kit features
six best practice case studies, seminar and workshop
material and the recently completed Future Directions
in Digital
Spatial Information for Emergency Management report.
“
The GeoInsight Project is an Australian first”, said Mr
Fominas. “The Resource Kit shows emergency managers how
geographic information systems can help them in disaster situations
and there is also an Industry Information CD to help spatial
information companies understand business opportunities in Australia’s
emergency management sector”.
Manager of the Risk Management Unit with the
ACT Emergency Services Bureau, Mr Rick McRae
said the
material presented
in the GeoInsight
Resource Kit is essential for those managing
emergencies in today’s
complex world. “We benefited greatly from using many of
the ideas during the recent catastrophic Canberra bushfires, “ said
Mr McRae.
Mr Fominas praised Multilocus Pty Ltd, a Canberra
based multiple media company, for an outstanding
job in developing
an attractive
and comprehensive resource for emergency managers
and geospatial specialists.
“
...... Due to the magnitude of the task, the production of the
resources was an element of the project to which we had to give
a great deal of attention……..the overall value of
this element was about half a million dollars……..we
had concerns about the ability of any one company to undertake
the task……….. After much research and deliberation
we decided to let the work to a single Canberra based company.
That company was Multilocus Interactive………I
really have to praise and congratulate Multilocus
Pty Ltd for their excellent work.
Multilocus fulfilled the challenging brief
admirably, producing what is truly a world class job. We are
very
proud of the
product and I believe that Multilocus can be justifiably
proud of what
they have achieved.”
Nik Fominas
Managing Director
Technik Pty Ltd
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