This is cool - O'Malley gives keynote at ESRI conference [View all]

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http://www.pe.com/articles/esri-773871-malley-conference.html

O'Malley Monday address echoed ideas presented earlier by Esri founder and president Jack Dangermound, who said the world is entering a geographic Age of Enlightenment, or geoenlightenment, in which maps and data are combined in dynamic ways to show people how to improve their world. O,Malley is a former mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland and used GIS in his administrations to identify problem areas that required government services. He is a Democratic presidential candidate and used the occasion to present his vision of what federal government should be, collaborative in the way the Internet is. He also said there is an imperative to deal with climate change. "Climate change is the biggest economic and business opportunity to come to the United States in100 years," he said.

Video:
http://video.esri.com/watch/4147/keynote-governor-martin-omalley


I'm guessing that O'Malley's invitation to keynote this conference was due to his use of GIS in the Maryland StateStat system.


I give O'Malley a huge plus over the other candidates for his apparent grasp of technology and vision towards its effective use in good governance.