How GIS Drives Innovation Across Outdoor Recreation Spaces
Explore the benefits of applying geographic information systems (GIS) to outdoor recreation challenges.
How Data-Driven Performance Powers Smart Communities
Get your free copy of this new report to learn the specifics of data-driven performance, why it’s especially critical at this time and how it fuels smart community investments that will impact current and future generations.
Strengthening Public Health Preparedness With GIS
Get your free copy of this new report to learn how GIS can support evidence-based decision-making and public health preparedness.
Smart Communities Turn to GIS to Improve Operational Efficiency
Learn how GIS can help communities realize operational efficiencies and get smarter.
Smart Communities Turn to GIS to Achieve Civic Inclusion
Learn how civic inclusion helps provide governance and benchmarks for state and local governments’ smart community strategies.
Delivering Smart Communities Through a Geospatial Strategy
To better serve the public, smart communities are taking geographic information systems, or GIS, to the next level. This report explains how.
Smarter States Equal Smarter Communities
It is time for states to become smart states, or states that make data-driven decisions, maintain constant awareness and stay connected by using technology and pioneering innovation. The National Governors Association (NGA) is ramping up its efforts to help states in this effort. Five states — Colorado, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota and Virginia —Read… Read more »
Resilient by Design: Solving What Keeps Community Leaders Up at Night
Resilience is the actions that state and local governments can take now to minimize the inevitable impact of shocks and stresses for the community, and accelerate the response for when those stresses occur. A geographic information system (GIS) is a critical part of building resilience. To better understand how GIS can help communities increase theirRead… Read more »
Altering the Course of Disease Surveillance: Connecting Cause and Effect to Location
The time to change course and modernize how we think about disease surveillance is now. Location has always been a critical foundation for connecting location of outbreaks to the source and spread. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are critical to an integrated approach to collecting information, analyzing patterns, communicating the results and monitoring progress. GIS isRead… Read more »
Strengthening Our Nation’s Infrastructure: Improving Decision-Making With Location Intelligence
Geographic information system (GIS) capabilities can help communities restore the nation’s vast system of transportation, water, sewer and telecommunications networks.
Moving Toward Health Equity Through GIS
In this industry perspective, we’ll learn what GIS is and why it should matter to all governments, how to achieve inter-departmental collaboration and move to working with nonprofits and leaders in the community and how you can use GIS to amplify your strategy and make the most of limited resources when combating health inequities.
A Modern Approach to Public Health Preparedness
Download this report to learn how GIS can improve public health preparedness efforts when responding to increasing threats and disasters.
Creating a Real-Time Government with GIS
By adapting real-time government data via GIS platforms and analyzing that information, governments have the ability know what’s happening as it happens, react and make smarter decisions faster, and get alerts when events of interest occur.
Responding to the Opioid Crisis with GIS
Read this industry perspective to understand how a location-focused approach can help public health, human services, and safety organizations understand and combat the opioid crisis in their communities. We’ll explain the use-cases for GIS as well as provide examples of how location-based strategies are already being used to quell the opioid epidemic.
Responding to Homelessness in Crisis Mode
his industry perspective was informed by interviews with local government leaders, as well as conversations with thought leaders from Esri. In it, we explore how a common, location-based framework can enable organizations to effectively monitor and combat homelessness across communities. We also explore case studies from cities and counties, and provide step-by-step instructions to help… Read more »
Putting a Smart Communities Strategy to Work
Esri, a leader in geospatial information technology, and GovLoop have partnered for this industry perspective to discuss how, with the right process, people and technology, any community can become smarter.
Building a Mobile Government Strategy with GIS
To discover how geographic information systems (GIS) technology, paired with a thoughtful mobile strategy, can transform state and local government services, GovLoop partnered with Esri, a leader in GIS, for this industry perspective.
Using GIS to Tackle the Opioid Crisis
Read this brief to learn how GIS can help put a face on this crisis to better inform and engage the public; how to better collaborate with other departments in your organization and make data-driven decisions; and about the role that GIS plays in exchanging data with stakeholders in the community.
Creating Smart Installations With the Power of GIS
Government installations – large-scale and complex government facilities – need to focus on becoming smart and taking advantage of technology to make better decisions and be more efficient.
Building Healthy Communities with GIS-based Mobile Data Collection
Geographic information system (GIS) technology helps the world better understand, respond to, and ultimately improve human health.
Reducing Fraud, Waste and Abuse in the Public Sector using GIS
Technology solutions can help agencies better identify and reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the public sector. Increasingly, agencies are turning to Esri’s geospatial technology — maps, analysis and geoenrichment — to address blind spots that allow these improper activities to go unnoticed.
The Informative Power of GIS and Statistics
Geographic information systems (GIS) and statistics, when utilized together, can provide an enhanced understanding of communities, cities, and nations. This industry perspective explores how national statistics organizations and other government agencies can leverage the power of GIS to better serve citizens and build smarter communities.
High-Resolution Imagery: Helping City Managers Better Serve Their Communities
A city manager’s job is continuous and complex. Whether it’s zoning, new construction, taxation or disaster planning, citizens depend on their city manager to understand their community, past and present, in great detail to prepare for future needs. In an environment of decreasing budgets and limited resources, geospatial technologies are an invaluable resource for betterRead… Read more »
GIS: The Essential Tool for Smart Communities
A smart community approach creates a more transparent, collaborative, and accessible government for its constituents. GIS is the foundation for a smart community because it allows governments to share data openly, gives the data a geographic context that everyone can understand and helps communities make more informed decisions. In turn, this approach creates more sustainable,Read… Read more »
Building Healthy Communities: Making a Difference With GIS
It’s not news that the health of today’s population is at a precarious junction. We are experiencing an epidemic of unprecedented proportions in terms of poor nutrition and physical inactivity across the globe. In fact, the youth of today may, on average, live less healthy and possibly even shorter lives than their parents. Improving theRead… Read more »
GIS: Your Platform for a Resilient Community
Government must stay efficient and deliver services no matter what trials the community faces. Technology offers the opportunity to build for the future in a way that allows for foundational strength for service delivery– as well as flexibility and innovation when communities need it. Our industry perspective will: Identify what it means to be a resilientRead… Read more »
How GIS Helped Secure Super Bowl XLVIII
This industry perspective tells the remarkable story of collaboration and technology that kept tourist and residents safe during the Super Bowl, including the technology solutions provided by Esri and PenBay that were deployed during Super Bowl XLVIII. We also feature interviews with: Deputy Commissioner Joel Golub, Chief Information Officer, FDNY Captain Steven Pollackov, FDNY GISRead… Read more »
Put Your Agency On The Map
In this Industry Perspective, we discuss how visualizing data using mapping technology delivers unique insights to your agency.
ArcGIS as a Platform: Interview with Esri President
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Jack Dangermond, Esri President. We discussed how GIS is transforming how the public sector arrives at decisions, and the power behind spatial data. You can view the report below, or download a PDF. Below I have included the executive summary of the report and report highlights.