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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
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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
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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
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Programme); and
National Resilience Extranet (NRE)
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
Flexible architecture supports EU, national,
thematic and organisational access to EUwide data with a standardised design
approach and applications and data made
available through web services to enable reuse and interoperability
Geographic Rights
Management (GeoRM):
this layer provides overall
workflow control,
consisting of
authentication,
authorisation, pricing,
billing, licensing etc.
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 ‘EUwide’ services
Member State
Member State
Member State
GIS Applications in Integrated
Emergency Management
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
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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
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share information.
Requires the 5C’s:
• Command – the ability to effectively direct operations at levels
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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:
• Providing
• Relaying
• Distributing
• Receiving
• Capturing
• Responding
• Summarising
• Retrieving
• Editing
• Checking
• Prioritising
• Filtering
• Collating
• Logging
• Recording
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.
National Resilience Extranet
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
The Packages
ATLAS OPS: Additional Geographic Information Systems Package
ATLAS AIMS: Optional Emergency Information Management Package
ATLAS Collaborate: Core Day to day Information Sharing and
Collaborative Working Package
Document Storage
Calendar
What’s New
Events
Message Log
Glossary
Brokerage Facility
Public Website Links
Briefings (including
SitReps)
Tasks
Contacts
Log
Instant Messenger
Receipted Message
Store
Online Booking
Facility
Plans
Discussion Board
GIS Package
Source: Arup
Source: Arup
Source: Arup
Source: Arup
Source: Arup
Summary of the Key Benefits
• Fast and secure dissemination of information across the resilience
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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 –
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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
HA Network Resilience Project
Source: Arup
Source: Arup
Options being considered
Source: Arup
Conclusions :
Strategic Alignment between
the HA and HMG
EA Alignment
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
Highways Agency
Police
Local Authorities
Conclusions
• Incident Management is currently classed as
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“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:
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Common Services and Re-use
Service Bus
A Federated Approach
Open Standards (INSPIRE)
Information Sharing