21 Nov Delivering Smart Communities through a Geospatial Strategy

Location plays a critical role in everything government does. This is evident in everything from long-range planning and asset management to public safety and citizen requests. When we bring complex data together within a geographic infrastructure, it is easier to understand, analyze, and act on that data. Smart communities thrive when location is at the forefront of all their operations. Esri’s Smart Community Information System establishes four technology tenets that governments need in order to deliver smart communities. These four tenets are interdependent and made up of complementary networks supporting data, solutions, implementations, training, and technologies. Founded in location, fueled by data, and designed to improve decision-making, this system works to improve the world we live in. Esri recognizes that with the right people, processes, and technology, any community can become smarter.

Smart communities embrace technology systems to

• Support planning and engineering that adapt to change.

• Improve operational efficiency.

• Capitalize on data-driven performance to realize real-time situational awareness and response.

• Achieve civic inclusion through engagement efforts and attentiveness on social equity.

Esri is the leader in spatial thinking and pioneers the technology that helps governments of all sizes build smart communities. Smart communities understand that becoming smart is a journey, not a destination, and with geographic information system (GIS) technology, they can solve for current challenges; rethink “business as usual” mind-sets; and reimagine themselves based on technological advances that support infrastructure needs, humans in crisis, climate change, and
whatever else the future may bring

Unleashing GIS Technology’s potential in every industries

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