This is cool - O'Malley gives keynote at ESRI conference

[MH1]

http://www.pe.com/articles/esri-773871-malley-conference.html

O'Malley Monday address echoed ideas presented earlier by Esri founder and president Jack Dangermound, who said the world is entering a geographic Age of Enlightenment, or geoenlightenment, in which maps and data are combined in dynamic ways to show people how to improve their world. O,Malley is a former mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland and used GIS in his administrations to identify problem areas that required government services. He is a Democratic presidential candidate and used the occasion to present his vision of what federal government should be, collaborative in the way the Internet is. He also said there is an imperative to deal with climate change. "Climate change is the biggest economic and business opportunity to come to the United States in100 years," he said.

Video:
http://video.esri.com/watch/4147/keynote-governor-martin-omalley


I'm guessing that O'Malley's invitation to keynote this conference was due to his use of GIS in the Maryland StateStat system.


I give O'Malley a huge plus over the other candidates for his apparent grasp of technology and vision towards its effective use in good governance.

[elleng]

1. This is very good and interesting to see, MH1. Thanks for posting

and making us aware. He is a tech wonk, no doubt, took advantage of it as governor and mayor, and will do so as POTUS, to the benefit of all.

Would you mind x-posting it in Video+ and somewhere in Science???



PS, NOTE all, MO'M 'just' had surgery on his shoulder, according to the video.

[MH1]

2. Watching the video now. Really powerful story starts at 14:58

Complete with an excellent Ed Rendell impression.

[MH1]

3. I can't stick around unfortunately

I actually posted this before watching it ... just finished and I'm really impressed.

But alas morning comes early for me so I have to shut down.

Feel free to share around, or I will try to do it tomorrow. (I just hate to put it out in the wild and not stick around to answer, er, questions.)

[elleng]

4. Thanks, will spread it around a bit.

FRUSTRATED, video (prolly my computer) stuttering, may take all night to see the whole thing!)

[A Little Weird]

5. Cool

I work in GIS. I think this was at the Federal Gov't GIS conference earlier this year not the main GIS conference (which is going on this week I think). That would have been a huge audience! I'm not sure how big the Federal conference is but I'm sure it's pretty big too.

It's always good to see a high level politician who understands the importance of GIS technology to so many areas. So many of them just see the expense and want to cut it to the bone for everything except maybe law enforcement.

Good on O'Malley!

[MH1]

6. Ah, that clears it up.

I was confused because the date on the video is February. But I had got the article off Google News and it was dated yesterday. And everything else I could find on "ESRI 2015" had the conference happening this week.

Either way I'm really glad I found it. I am in IT for a commercial company, but very interested in public sector IT and especially GIS and business intelligence. So I was pretty much salivating over this when I found it. (I'm such a geek. LOL.)