What's New?

AO for developing geospatial applications for decision making
July 28, 2006 - September 15, 2006

GeoConnections is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity. The program is now soliciting proposals to develop applications that access location-based ('geospatial') data and other information from distributed sources over the Internet. The applications must make use of standards endorsed by GeoConnections, and technologies that form part of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI). See [section 2] and [section 6] of this Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for more detail.

The proposed applications must support decision making in one of the following GeoConnections priority areas:

Public health: Facilitating disease surveillance or population-health analysis

Public safety/security: Facilitating situational awareness and assisting with the management of consequences

Environment/Sustainable Development: Facilitating Integrated Land/Water/Marine Management including Land-Use/Resource Planning, Environmental Assessment and Indicator Monitoring

Matters of importance to Aboriginal peoples: Land and resource planning and community response systems.

Proposals will be accepted from end-users in government departments or agencies (local, provincial/territorial, or federal), Crown corporations, academic institutions, private-sector organizations, non-government organizations, and Aboriginal communities and organizations.

For more information, see the full announcement at AO for developing geospatial applications for decision making or contact:

For information regarding other opportunities, please see the anticipated schedule of opportunities at http://www.geoconnections.org/CGDI.cfm/fuseaction/aos.schedule/gcs.cfm