Assessing the Business Needs and Readiness of Palestinian Municipalities to Adapt GIS to Promote Public Services

This paper uses a case study approach to explore the extent to which the municipalities in Palestinian cities are ready to adopt GIS in their business procedures to improve service delivery and planning activities. For this purpose the business needs and data requirements of Bidya municipality which...

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Main Authors: Sana Qasim, Ihab Hijazi, Abdel Nasser Arafat, Ali Abdelhamid, Ahmed R.Ghodieh, Rani El Meouche
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Published: An-Najah National University 2016-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.najah.edu/media/journals/full_texts/6_iWVVsnP.pdf
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description This paper uses a case study approach to explore the extent to which the municipalities in Palestinian cities are ready to adopt GIS in their business procedures to improve service delivery and planning activities. For this purpose the business needs and data requirements of Bidya municipality which represent Palestine case were researched by adapting Tomlinson’s approach for planning GIS. The research provide a list of Information Products (IPs) which are cases of how GIS will benefit the municipality and support the various work processes, whereas these (IPs) were used to extract a Master Input Data List (MIDL) and a database schema which reflect the actual and comprehensive data requirements to operate the needed GIS. The research concluded that in general most Palestinian municipalities do have other priorities which are considered prerequisites for adopting the GIS and getting the maximum benefits out of it, such as; land registration, addressing system and activating the property tax collection system.
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spelling doaj-art-2566632575c540f68ddb8a31085c589d2025-08-20T03:23:35ZengAn-Najah National Universityمجلة جامعة النجاح للأبحاث العلوم الطبيعية1727-21142311-88652016-05-013118912010.35552/anujr.a.31.1.1361Assessing the Business Needs and Readiness of Palestinian Municipalities to Adapt GIS to Promote Public ServicesSana Qasim0Ihab Hijazi1Abdel Nasser Arafat2Ali Abdelhamid3Ahmed R.Ghodieh4Rani El Meouche5Student at Graduate Studies, Urban Planning Program, An-Najah National University, PalestineDepartment of Urban Planning Engineering, An-Najah National University, Nablus, PalestineDepartment of Geography, Birzeit University, PalestineDepartment of Urban Planning Engineering, An-Najah National University, PalestineNoneHead of the Laboratory of Topography and Geomatics Master, Coordinator of Surveying and Geomatics lessons at the ESTP. ParisThis paper uses a case study approach to explore the extent to which the municipalities in Palestinian cities are ready to adopt GIS in their business procedures to improve service delivery and planning activities. For this purpose the business needs and data requirements of Bidya municipality which represent Palestine case were researched by adapting Tomlinson’s approach for planning GIS. The research provide a list of Information Products (IPs) which are cases of how GIS will benefit the municipality and support the various work processes, whereas these (IPs) were used to extract a Master Input Data List (MIDL) and a database schema which reflect the actual and comprehensive data requirements to operate the needed GIS. The research concluded that in general most Palestinian municipalities do have other priorities which are considered prerequisites for adopting the GIS and getting the maximum benefits out of it, such as; land registration, addressing system and activating the property tax collection system.https://journals.najah.edu/media/journals/full_texts/6_iWVVsnP.pdfplanning gismidldatabase schemaorganizational structuretomlinson’s methodologyips
spellingShingle Sana Qasim
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Ahmed R.Ghodieh
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Assessing the Business Needs and Readiness of Palestinian Municipalities to Adapt GIS to Promote Public Services
مجلة جامعة النجاح للأبحاث العلوم الطبيعية
planning gis
midl
database schema
organizational structure
tomlinson’s methodology
ips
title Assessing the Business Needs and Readiness of Palestinian Municipalities to Adapt GIS to Promote Public Services
title_full Assessing the Business Needs and Readiness of Palestinian Municipalities to Adapt GIS to Promote Public Services
title_fullStr Assessing the Business Needs and Readiness of Palestinian Municipalities to Adapt GIS to Promote Public Services
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the Business Needs and Readiness of Palestinian Municipalities to Adapt GIS to Promote Public Services
title_short Assessing the Business Needs and Readiness of Palestinian Municipalities to Adapt GIS to Promote Public Services
title_sort assessing the business needs and readiness of palestinian municipalities to adapt gis to promote public services
topic planning gis
midl
database schema
organizational structure
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ips
url https://journals.najah.edu/media/journals/full_texts/6_iWVVsnP.pdf
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