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March

28
2006

9:00 am EST - 4:00 pm EST

Past Event

NICS as America’s Data Exchange: Building a Foundation for Action

  • Tuesday, March 28, 2006

    9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Falk Auditorium

1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
20036

The National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) Community of Practice (CoP) had a quarterly meeting to discuss the progress report on the development of NICS since the last gathering of the CoP in November 2005.

During this session we:

unveiled the new NICSweb.org website,
discussed tools for protecting data confidentiality,
and began to organize NICS CoP Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

SIGs are intended to engage members of the NICS CoP in preparing the groundwork for the implementation and use of NICS in individual fields, such as housing, the environment, and community development. Each SIG would ascertain the steps that need to be taken for NICS to meet its field’s needs in terms of the availability, usability, and comparability of datasets.

Presentation Topics Include:
Progress Report on NICS
NICS Special Interest Groups
Tools to Protect Confidentiality: An Assessment
Cynthia Taeuber, University of Baltimore


Meeting ResourcesAgenda (PDF-40KB)

About NICS
NICS: Making Community Information More Available and Accessible


Recent NICS Events
Metadata and NICS: Joys, Sorrows, and Payoffs

NICS Research Symposium: The Emerging Tool Kit for NICS (6-30-2005)
NICS: An Overview



Event Registration
Contact: Lisa Morales
Phone: 202/797-6131

Who Should Attend

  • Experts in data analysis, exchange, and warehousing
  • Information technology developers
  • Chief information officers in the public or private sector
  • Analysts and managers of community information systems
  • Federal, state, regional, and local Officials Working in information collection, analysis, or information policy
  • Knowledge management or business intelligence System Managers

About NICS & the NICS CoP
NICS is intended as a nationwide Web-based broker facilitating public and private decisionmakers’ access to detailed, current community-level statistics from thousands of local, state, federal, and commercial data sources. The NICS CoP is comprised of over 200 individuals—from a variety of government, nonprofit, and commercial realms—working collaboratively on the design, construction, and governance of NICS.
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