LIS Document Resources

Downloadable LIS Documents:

1. Local Information Systems Defined (4 pages)
2. InstantAtlas Server for LIS solutions summary (2 page overview)
3. Local Information Systems Overview Guide (4 pages)
4. Local Information Systems: A Generic Specification (14 pages)
5. Making the Business Case for a LIS - a PDF document created from the above webinar (26 slides)
6. NE Lincolnshire Council Data Observatory Example Business Case - also available on CLG LIS Toolkit
7. GeoWise supplement to NE Lincolnshire Business Case (8 pages)
8. GeoWise summary of the CLG LIS event, Birmingham 29th Jan 2009 (2 pages)
9. BURISA Sept 07 article: LIS and links with Performance Management Systems by Wendy Pontin, Norfolk Data Observatory (9 pages)
10. LARIA Seminar on Social Marketing and Segmentation, January 2009: The role of a LIS in supporting Customer Insight - Managing and presenting geo-demographics effectively - presentation by Wendy Pontin (Norfolk Insight) and John Maslen (GeoWise)
    

LIS Case Studies based on InstantAtlas Server:

• Norfolk Data Observatory
• London Borough of Tower Hamlets
• Fife Council

LIS documents available on request:

• InstantAtlas Server: LIS Pre-Implementation Guidance and Planning (20 pages) - Available on request
• InstantAtlas Server: LIS Data Starter Pack Specification - Available on request
• Wigan Partnership: A Generic LIS Project Plan - Available on request
• InstantAtlas Server: Current LIS Customers - Available on request

Relevant UK Government Documents:

• UK National Audit Office: Choosing the right fabric: a framework for performance information
• UK IDeA: Reporting Performance
• UK Audit Commission: Building Area Profiles
• UK Audit Commission: In The Know report
• UK Audit Commission: Making Better Use of Information to Drive Improvement in Local Public Services
• UK Audit Commission: The Use of Information in Decision Making - A Literature Review
• UK Dept of Communities and Local Government: Community Empowerment
• UK Cabinet Office: Working Together - Public Services on Your Side
• EURIM: The Value of Information
• InstantAtlas: Government Performance Reporting Online Resource Pack
• InstantAtlas: Local Information Systems Online Resource Pack
• InstantAtlas: Community Indicators and Community Information Systems Online Resource Pack
• InstantAtlas: Crime Reporting and Mapping Online Resource Pack
• InstantAtlas: Public Health Reporting and Mapping Online Resource Pack

Useful LIS Web Links

LIS on Wikipedia

CLG LIS web pages
http://www.esd.org.uk/esdtoolkit/Communities/LIS/ContentView.aspx?ContentType=Content-287

InstantAtlas Server Web Pages

InstantAtlas Forum

In Scotland "AIR- Analysis, Intelligence and Research - the Community of Practice for local government researchers and their partners in Scotland".
http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/c/910030/home.do