AbstractFundamental Tribal Government role providing efficient services to Tribal CommunityTrack: Tribal/Indigenous GIS Programs Author Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians(EBCI) Governmental departments are challenged with efficient and accurate services to Tribal members: decision support, permitting, services, applications, land management and departmental collaboration with Federal/State. EBCI developed an enterprise GIS 'Tribal-Integrated-Geographic-Information-System(IGIS)" to serve as the central repository of geographically related government services/business workflow. GIS is the core component of improving workflows in the services driven economy. The IGIS system supports web-services/based applications for land evaluation, land records management, economic assessment/planning, development review, inspection, management, permitting. IGIS integrates business requirements/evaluation by housing, utilities/engineering, cultural/environmental and integration of business, archeological/environmental/disaster planning and EMS/e911 services. IGIS serves fundamental governmental roles by providing efficient services to Cherokee. IGIS supports: .Transparency .Interagency/inter-government information exchange with USDOI/BIA/BLM and state/local governments .Interagency/inter-government federal/state information exchange with DOI, BIA, BLM, EPA, USACE, USFWS, NHP, reporting requirements for water-quality, wetlands, flood management, environmental permitting, NEPA, sustainable land and natural resource management goals. .Interoperability with Electronic-Document-Management-System(EDMS) David Wyatt Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians PO Box 455 Cherokee, North Carolina 28719 United States Phone: 828-497-8123 Fax: 828-497-8147 E-mail: daviwyat@nc-cherokee.com |