Six Word Challenge Results: NSGIC in 3 Years

At the recent NSGIC Leadership Strategic Retreat, there was a brief, but serious, discussion of where NSGIC should find itself in three years time. NSGIC Strategic Plans are written in three-year increments and it makes little sense to plan how you plan to get there if you don't really know where you are going.

This seemed like a good excuse to toss out another "6-word challenge." The first, "How will we achieve a true National Spatial Data Infrastructure?" was posted in the last "paper" issue of the NSGIC Newsletter. This time, the question was "where will NSGIC be in three years?"

The following are some of the responses (some were trimmed to keep this blog's PG rating).

• Central nervous system facilitating federated GIS.
• Financially stable: imagery, transportation, height, elevation.
• Coordinated geospatial advocates for the nation.
• Realizing our dreams for the nation.
• Facilitating the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure.
• Still Optimistically Waiting For The NSDI.
• Blissfully Counting For The Nation Initiatives.
• Still Waiting For For The IFTN.
• National Spatial Data Infrastructure Reduction Sale.
• Up a Creek Without A GPS.
• Finally Holding The Conference In Hawaii.
• Using NSDI(s) to solve global problems.
• A sustained organization impacting public policy.
• Still fighting furiously for the NSDI.
• Bringing people together to build consensus.
• Leading the way with our friends.
• Banging heads against the same wall.
• Same ‘ole stuff, different geospatial day.

You'll have to await completion of the NSGIC Strategic Plan to see the actual three year goals.