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Core Competencies for GIS Professionals: Approaching Synthesis and Consensus
Track: Teaching with GIS in Higher Education
Author(s): David DiBiase, Daniel Ferstenberg

Is there a 'GIS Profession'? If so (as considerable evidence suggests), then there ought to be a set of core competencies that all GIS professionals possess (or ought to possess), regardless of their particular job descriptions. No widely-accepted list of GIS core competencies exists in the U.S., however, despite several previous national-scale efforts. This session proposes an approach that synthesizes earlier results, including DACUM task analyses conducted at member institutions of the National Geospatial Technology Center (geotechcenter.org). Collaborating institutions include the GIS Certification Institute (gisci.org), which has formed a Working Group on Professional Competencies. Session participants will have an opportunity to critique a preliminary draft of proposed GIS Core Competencies.

David DiBiase
Dutton e-Education Institute
2217 EES Bldg
Penn State University
University Park , Pennsylvania 16802
United States
Phone: 814-863-1790
E-mail: dibiase@psu.edu

Daniel Ferstenberg
City of Miramar
2200 Civic Center Place
Mirarmar , Florida 33025
United States
Phone: 954-602-3257
E-mail: dsferstenberg@ci.miramar.fl.us