Presentation of the Annual Partnership Award
24th Annual New York State GIS Conference

The New York State GIS Coordination Program's Standards and Data Coordination Work Group promotes formation of GIS partnerships in New York State.  Through their efforts, a Partnership Summaries page is posted on the GIS Clearinghouse: http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/coordinationprogram/reports/partnerships/index.htm and an Annual GIS Partnership Award is presented at the NYS GIS Conference Banquet.

The Annual GIS Partnership Award recognizes a GIS partnership involving government agencies, academia, private business, and/or not-for-profit organizations. The Award is presented in hope that by recognizing these partnerships, existing GIS partnerships will grow, additional resource sharing will occur, duplication of efforts will decrease, and perhaps others will see the benefits provided and initiate similar unique partnerships.

Who is eligible ?

Any partnership that does not have an existing summary on the GIS Partnership Summary page AND partnerships that are on the Summary page but  have expanded or significantly modified their original partnership (you will need to update your summary by resubmitting a Partnership Summary Form). Previous winners of the last two partnership awards include: Anne Wilbiralskie, Karen Edelstein & Jim Hall of The Old Forest Preservation Partnership, 2006, and the Honorable Scott Burto of the West Carthage Volunteer Fire Department Partnership are not eligible.

Partnerships considered for the award will be judged on the following criteria:

"Entries will be judged on their originality, innovation, and the scope

of the partnership, such as number and diversity of participants or

dollar savings of the partnership."

Partnerships may be submitted using the Partnership Summary Form by going to http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/coordinationprogram/reports/partnerships/index.htm which takes you to the GIS Partnership Summary page (scroll down and review some of the previously submitted partnership summaries).  From this page click on “downloadable document in rich text format (rtf)” (http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/coordinationprogram/reports/partnerships/partner.rtf ) to take you to the actual form.  It's a very easy one page form to fill out.  Once filled out, just attach it to an e-mail and send to nysgis@cscic.state.ny.us

Deadline for new and updated award applications/summary pages is 12 September.