Fish & wildlife Columbia Basin CIS

Columbia Basin Cooperative Information System

April 2002

Summary
The Council and the National Marine Fisheries Service recently signed an agreement to cooperate in developing an information system for the Columbia River Basin.

Purpose
Improve the quality, quantity, and availability of Columbia River Basin data and related information on fish, oceans, wildlife, and their habitats using a publicly supported approach to information systems development. See this diagram of information types and likely end users. For more detail, read the methodology.

Process
Your experience with Columbia Basin data will help guide this process of assessing current information management efforts and identifying future information needs. Here's how the process will unfold and how you can participate:

• Over the next 7 to 10 months, the Council, NMFS, and consultants from Science Applications International Corporation will evaluate current information systems and assess regional information needs through interviews, focus groups, presentations, surveys, and workshops.
• The results of these investigations will be compiled, summarized, and presented together with recommendations at a basin-wide workshop where interested parties will have the opportunity to review, validate, and comment.
• After the workshop, a final report with recommendations will be prepared.

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