Here is a link to the full Wellington NZGIS4EM Workshop Summary.
This was a two-day workshop with an emphasis and GIS for Emergency Management for the Lower North Island. There were over 50 attendees across National, Regional, and Local Government, as well as private sector and not for profit organisations. The first day included both thought provoking presentations and also a discussion panel and breakout session. The second day was designed to train GIS staff to be deploy geospatial decision support tools ahead of disaster and test their preparedness with a short exercise. The overall goal of this event was to raise awareness, build community, and to give participants action items to take back to their organisations. While participants gain new skills and successfully deployed geospatial decision support tools, the stress test on Day 2 showed critical knowledge gaps.
The key finding of this workshop is that a National & Regional geospatial concept of operations is required for the civil defence and the geospatial community to be sufficiently prepared for the next large-scale disaster.
