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Featured in this Issue: Collaboration • City of Edmonton Deploys Video to Collaborate More Effi ciently • MISA BC Fall Conference & Trade Show • La loi canadienne anti-pourriel (CAS L) Municipal Interface CANADA National Professional Journal of MISA/ASIM Canada JUNE 2013, VOL. 20, NO. 3 MISA Prairies Spring Conference Points to New Value Statements for IT The MISA Prairies 2013 Spring Conference in Banff, Alberta, more than lived up to its theme, “The Value of IT.” Page 12 Looking for Survey Plans? We’ve got them! Teranet and Land Survey Records now have survey plan images available through Plans mapped GeoWarehouse.ca to PIN! Great news! Teranet and Land Survey Records have created an indexed listing of survey plan images to PIN. As a GeoWarehouse user, you’ll be proactively notified that survey plan images are available for a property. A quick search shows the list of plans, and allows for layering of the associated PINS on the map. Automatic Teranet Enterprises Inc. Notification! 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Toronto • Ottawa • Montreal • Vancouver Over a Decade of Success with Fortinet www.securelinks.net • [email protected] 6 626588_Foreseeson.indd 1 15/03/13 1:52 AM MUNICIPAL Interface JUNE 2013 Keeping in Touch By Dan Munns, President, MISA Ontario ON THE HEELS of our recent annual conference, One of my goals as President is to clearly articulate “Collaboration: We’re in IT Together,” I am excited to and communicate an associate patron value proposition. embrace my new role as President of MISA Ontario. Nearly half of our membership is comprised of I also find myself reflecting on our conference theme organizations from the vendor community. This group and knowing that I’m not in this alone. Rather, our is a very loyal component of the association and they association is comprised of over 100 volunteers who invest significant financial resources supporting our actively participate on Committees, Special Interest various events and networking opportunities. In the past Groups (SIGs), the Board of Directors and the planning year, we have held virtual town halls and circulated a of regional events that benefit the membership at large. vendor survey, all in an effort to better understand how We really are in IT together! MISA Ontario can be more relevant to Over the past five years, I’ve our associate patron community. Over watched MISA Ontario mature As municipalities large and the coming months, we’ll be taking this and grow. With a solid strategic small deal with emerging feedback and formulating a plan that plan in place, we have worked technology and security will better engage our patrons and together to develop new initiatives issues in the work place, deliver increased value to them. and collaborate on projects large it behooves us to keep the I truly believe that the smaller and small that benefit municipalities communities in Ontario have the and citizens across the province. lines of communication open greatest opportunity to benefit from Internally, we have formalized our and be willing to share our being involved in MISA Ontario. In governance structure and adopted collective experience. 2012, we created a Small Municipality an open, transparent culture that SIG, which now has over 20 welcomes participation from participants who meet via conference members and associate patrons alike. In short, the call monthly. Issues facing this group of municipalities association is well positioned for the foreseeable are often unique and can be related to a lack of future. But what’s next? resources specific to IT. I am committed to reaching out During the past six months, we have seen a number to non-member municipalities who could benefit from of new working groups evolve from the grassroots involvement in MISA Ontario and the Small Municipality membership. Hot issues such as accessibility and SIG. We are seeing growth in this particular mobility have generated lots of discussion amongst membership category, but there are still many more that the membership and have become a focal point for are not aware of MISA Ontario or what we do. regional events and interactive sessions. I am pleased As I begin this journey as President, I do so with that MISA Ontario provides a forum for this type of a positive outlook and with great anticipation of collaboration and I expect that we’ll see more of this what’s ahead. Being “in IT together” is a great mantra in the months ahead. As municipalities large and small for MISA Ontario and will keep us focused on the deal with emerging technology and security issues collaborative approach and spirit of volunteerism that in the work place, it behooves us to keep the lines defines us. I look forward to working with all of you of communication open and be willing to share our and hope to see you at a regional or social event over collective experience. the coming months! ■ 7 Visit www.misa-asim.ca and check out our digital edition for exclusive online stories. MISA/ASIM News Across Canada Nominations Open for 2013 Peter Bennett Award NOMINATIONS HAVE OPENED for leadership and working “beyond Participants in the Large the 2013 Peter Bennett Award, the the call” with humour and humanity. Municipalities Special Interest highest award in Canada in the Nominations for the 2013 award Group of MISA/ASIM Canada municipal information technology will close July 26. The nominating have decided to examine field. The award recipient will form can be downloaded from their budgeted information- be announced during MISA/ www.misa-asim.ca under the technology capital projects ASIM Canada’s MCIO Summit “About” tab. Nominators are to identify those with related in September at Whistler and asked to scan the completed or common characteristics, so the award will be presented at form and e-mail it to MISA/ASIM that municipalities might lend the annual conference of the Canada President Kathryn Bulko at expertise or resources to each recipient’s chapter. [email protected]. other. Roy Wiseman, executive Peter Bennett was a visionary director of MISA/ASIM Canada, municipal IT leader from Winnipeg IT Leaders from Large is preparing a framework to who died suddenly in 2005.