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Featured in This Issue: Reaching Beyond Borders MUNICIPAL Interface SEPTEMBER 2011 • Township of Centre Wellington integrates • City of Toronto creates IdM&A business enterprise applications architecture • City of Edmonton consults globally to • Mobile Web presents a new challenge improve traffic safety for municipalities CANADA Municipal Interface National Professional Journal of MISA/ASIM Canada SEPTEMBER 2011, VOL.18, NO 4 Sidney, BC, Becomes A Showcase By the Sea Picturesque Town Reveals Collaborative Model For Wireless Project as Host for MISA BC Conference See pages 5 and 10 connect. research. communicate. repeat. 1Looking234 for Survey Plans? We’ve got them! Teranet and Land Survey Records now have survey plan images available through GeoWarehouse.ca Plans mapped to PIN! Great news! Teranet and Land Survey Records have created an indexed listing of survey plan images to PIN. 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Lawrence Moule 416-458-4410, [email protected] Articles are subject to approval by the Communications Committee. The views 1 888 809 5513 Jane Morgan 416-488-2878, [email protected] expressed in this journal are those of the individual writers and do not necessarily French-language editor: Gaston Huot (Brossard) 450-923-6362 reflect those of MISA/ASIM Canada. Design: Natalie Coombs of NatCo Design No part of the publication may be reproduced by anyone without prior written permission from MISA/ASIM Canada. Printer: RR Donnelley, Toronto © 2011 MISA/ASIM Canada Property tools that 3 make you the expert. GeoWarehouse_Ad_2010-12-10.indd 1 1/14/11 10:27:02 AM MUNICIPAL Interface SEPTEMBER 2011 Keeping in Touch By Corey Halford Let’s Work President, MISA Prairies Closer Together THE MORE INVOLVED I become with MISA, the more I see technology challenges, further enriching the value of the great value of collaborating, expanding our network, a MISA membership. and forging new relationships. Another area in which I see significant potential is in the When I joined the City of Airdrie, Alberta in 2007 as one partnership with other associations that provide similar or of the team leaders of the Information Technology (IT) Depart- overlapping services. For example, the Urban and Regional ment, the manager of the department was Georganne Dupont, Information Systems Association (URISA) is the one association who also happened to be the president of MISA Prairies. in which I see a significant amount of overlap when it comes It was through Georganne that I was introduced to MISA to the data component of municipal operations. Prairies. What I soon came to realize is that MISA Prairies, Specifically, over the past year when I attended various like all chapters within MISA/ASIM Canada, consists of an MISA conferences, one line of discussions or presentations amazing network of intelligent, skilled and creative individuals focused on GIS in municipal government. This is a specific who support municipal government. What I really appreci- knowledge area that URISA focuses on, and this is why I ated and was amazed by was the willingness of the member believe that cooperation with URISA, either on a local or municipalities to actively contribute and assist each other, not international level, will enable us to deliver even more value only through dialogue at conferences, but all the time. to our discussions and our members. Taking on the role of vice-president in 2009, I sat on a While URISA is not the only association in which a new committee that was created to investigate the options potential partnership may be valuable to MISA members, available for a new MISA Prairies Web site. It was the active MISA should consciously pursue the ones that will provide participation of the committee members as well as the coop- our members with the most value. If we can forge these eration of MISA BC and MISA Ontario that helped make our new relationships, expand our network, and increase the new site possible. resources available to our members, we can only strengthen Without the partnership of MISA Ontario, we wouldn’t MISA as it exists today. have been able to take MISA Prairies to where it is today. The support that MISA Prairies received from both MISA BC and Reaching Smaller Municipalities MISA Ontario really demonstrates that MISA has no borders. On a more local level, while MISA Prairies has expanded its Now, as president of MISA Prairies, I have the opportunity membership significantly during the past four years, we have to see the interrelationships among MISA/ASIM Canada now reached a point where we are challenged in engaging chapters from a slightly different perspective. potential members in municipalities with populations less than 10,000 people. Limited Interaction This is an area where MISA Prairies really has to reach What I see are five chapters that have members with the beyond its internal political borders to develop new relation- same requirements, but the interaction among members ships with these municipalities and demonstrate the value of is generally limited to within each chapter. With all the being a MISA Prairies member. The complexity of this chal- economic pressures being placed on municipal services, it lenge is multiplied when these municipalities do not have IT seems as though a more sustainable and effective manner departments or outsource those functions to external agencies. is required to engage our members – and engage them It is one thing to demonstrate the value of MISA to the beyond our political borders. technical professionals, but it is a completely different I believe that our siloed approach to our discussion challenge to demonstrate this value to those outside of the forums and document libraries limits our ability to take information technology industry. advantage of our combined resources. From coast to coast We must reach out in a more effective manner to engage to coast, we should enable the members of all chapters to engage in discussions on common issues and solutions that these municipalities, demonstrate the value of MISA, and occur in one common place. enable the municipalities to take their operations to the next level. By providing cross-chapter engagement, we could extend the discussions about past, current and future [email protected] n 4 MUNICIPAL Interface SEPTEMBER 2011 MISA/ASIM News Across Canada MISA BC Fall Conference at Sidney To Explore New Social Media World By Peter Payerl and Linda Hunter book Sociable!. Jagger is the co-founder Guests will stroll through the museum’s Town of Sidney, BC of three businesses including a com- collection of aircraft, engines and mod- pany focused on social-media training, els before sitting down to a dinner of and Gibson, a management coach, gourmet west-coast delights, followed THE PICTURESQUE TOWN of Sidney, has been presenting internationally for by a night filled with fun and games. a small municipality on Vancouver more than a decade. Island, is ready to welcome more than New this Year 350 MISA BC delegates, vendors and Municipal showcases on Wednesday will offer the latest in municipal success Adding to an already packed confer- guests to its annual Fall Conference on ence program are a few new items: September 20–23.