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President's Message
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Welcome to the New York State GIS Association – Your Voice and Professional Organization for the NYS Geospatial Community!! It is an honor for me to serve as the first-ever president of the NYS GIS Association (NYSGISA). Over the past year and a half the NYSGISA has devoted most of our effort in the development of NYSGISA structure including the Board of Directors, Regional User Groups and establishing a co-operative and working relationship with the New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination (CSCIC). With much of NYSGISA’s organizational development now completed we are moving forward with implementing and carrying out and our mission and goals for the NYS Geospatial Community. |
The NYSGISA was formed with simple mission in mind. That is to represent the NYS Geospatial professional goals and interests, provide advocacy of the Geospatial profession through scholarships, certification, continuing education, GISP and other professional development opportunities, provide a forum to meet and network on a regular basis, provide guidance to the NYS Geospatial community on selected topics and provide a voice to the NYS elected officials and leadership on key statewide GIS issues and topics.
Through the efforts of our Board of Directors in 2007 the NYSGISA was able to realize a number of successes including strong collaboration with NYS on their existing Strategic Business Plan, continued collaboration with CSCIC on education and outreach as well as a substantial increase in our membership.
I would like to thank the many contributions by our Board of Directors – Sam Wear, Bruce Oswald, Bob Brower, Scott Sherwood, Sheri Norton and Christa Hay for all of their diligent work, effort and assistance in setting and creating the direction of NYSGISA. We have a tremendously energetic and enthusiastic Board of Directors that is both pleasing to work with and willing to put forth time and effort to make NYSGISA a success for you and all the professional Geospatial staff within NYS.
In closing, we welcome your comments, thoughts, ideas and suggestions for improving NYSGISA. We encourage you to become active in our regional user groups and also encourage your participation within NYSGISA as we have many opportunities for professionals to provide service back to the NYS GIS community!!
Jeff Volpe
NYS GIS Association President |
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