Call for URISA Certified Workshop Proposals

 New Workshop Proposals Due January 22, 2010

URISA Members:

URISA’s Workshop Development Committee is seeking new workshops for presentation at URISA conferences, chapter conferences and as stand-alone courses.  Workshops offer rewarding educational experiences to URISA members and help them in their careers as geospatial practitioners. 

Many of you have attended one or more of URISA’s Certified Workshops at chapter events or at URISA conferences on topics ranging from 3D Geospatial to An Overview of Open Source GIS Software.

Each year, the Workshop Development Committee, instructors, authors and reviewers develop new workshops and update the existing workshops URISA offers.  To remain relevant, however, we must develop new workshops to meet our members’ needs for top-quality education on the most important topics in the field.

We invite you to submit a proposal to develop a new eight-hour, four-hour, or two-hour web-based URISA Certified Workshop.

New workshop proposals must identify a specific niche or need. This could be a new topic or a significant improvement of an existing workshop.

Suggested new workshop topics include (but are not limited to):

• Funding Geospatial IT Infrastructure, Resources, and Organizations and ROI
• Getting and Managing Vendors: From developing  requests for geospatial proposals, qualifications and information (RFP/RFQ/RFI) to managing schedules and approving deliverables
• How to Establish and Operate an Emergency Response, Public Safety, or Mutual Aid GIS Program
• Social Networking Programs – What they are; How they add value; How to set them up and manage them.
• How to Design Intelligent Geospatial Web Interfaces for Urban and Regional Applications
• How to Establish a Metric-based Performance Management and Process Improvement Program
• Web-based Geospatial Data Providers: What’s Out There and How to Use Them
• How to Design and Produce Good Maps for Decision Makers
• How to Locate and Track Vehicles and  Support e-Logistics Decision Makers
• Commercially Available and Publicly Available Geospatial Datasets – A Survey of their Added Value
• Communicating With Users and Clients About the Quality of Your Products - How to Establish, Support and Manage and Effective Quality Feedback Loop
• How to Apply GIS to Support New Initiatives in Sustainability, Green Buildings/Environments, and Livable Cities
• How to Design, Develop, and Manage Web Portals for Sharing Geospatial Information
• How to Grow Your Geospatial Service Offerings
• Data Quality, Sharing and Standards
• Databases and Data Management (new)

Not ready for the task of creating a new workshop? If you are interested in helping to update an existing workshop, the following need attention:

• Database Development and Conversion
• Digital Imagery & Remote Sensing
• Metadata

Criteria:

Proposers, coordinators and instructors must be URISA members. A workshop must be presented with a minimum of two instructors. The workbook may not be copyrighted by the author or contain proprietary materials which may preclude URISA's use of the workbook/workshop at other URISA conferences. If interested in submitting a certified workshop proposal, follow the schedule and steps below.

Workshop Proposal Schedule

To propose a new workshop, download the proposal form and related documents or contact URISA Headquarters.

Proposals can be emailed to info@urisa.org when completed.

Download Proposal Form

Download Descriptions Of Current Workshops

Download Workbook Guidelines

For questions or more information please contact:

Dave Lanter, GISP or Keri Brennan, GISP
URISA Workshop Development Committee Co-Chairs

Email: info@urisa.org