Project Detail

Sultanate of Oman Nationwide GIS/LIS Strategic Plan

This project involved user needs analysis, system design and implementation planning for a national GIS development strategy for the Sultanate of Oman. The project team collaborated directly with the Supreme Committee for Town Planning (SCTP) to develop a strategy for a nationwide system and integrated geographic database to serve the ongoing operations of twenty-three different Ministries.

Mr. Sorensen served as Senior Consultant and Project Manager for a team of 10 GIS consultants that were mobilized both in-country and from the United States and Lebanon to carry out the project. He organized and led several teams of consultants to conduct over 100 interviews within 23 different Ministries throughout Oman to determine requirements for geographic and geographic-related data and applications. Mr. Sorensen then headed up a smaller team of consultants who compiled and synthesized the information from the interviews to a system design and implementation plan addressing long-term needs for hardware, software, data, staff training, institutional development, and integration of GIS to the day-to-day operations of the Ministries. This plan is still in use today in Oman over eight years later.

Mr. Sorensen has continued to support the Oman national GIS/LIS initiative through a series of detailed design and implementation support projects for various individual Ministries, including supporting the Oman National Survey Authority in the development of digital basemapping specifications for the country.

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