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Geospatial Nations: Building Essential Infrastructure for Modern Governments
by Sohail Elabd
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Geospatial Nations
Geospatial Nations: Building Essential Infrastructure for Modern Governments reframes geospatial capability as one of the essential foundations of modern governance.
Governments around the world are investing heavily in digital transformation. Dashboards are launched, platforms are procured, and new technologies are announced. Yet many governments still struggle to turn digital ambition into trusted understanding, coordinated action, and lasting results.
This book argues that the missing element is not ambition, funding, or software. It is understanding.
Drawing on deep experience with emerging markets and national transformation programs, Geospatial Nations shows why geography is no longer a technical layer inside government. It is essential infrastructure for understanding a nation, planning with confidence, building resilience, guiding investment, and executing effectively. The book explains why strategy must come before systems, why governance must replace goodwill, why technology amplifies leadership rather than substituting for it, and how GeoAI, cloud, Earth observation, and modern GIS can help countries leapfrog traditional barriers.
Written for leaders who must make decisions under pressure, justify investment, align institutions, and deliver results that endure, this practical guide helps readers:
- Identify blind spots in digital transformation
- Understand why geospatial infrastructure is essential to modern government
- Build national strategies that connect technology to real priorities
- Strengthen governance, data sharing, and institutional alignment
- Use GeoAI, cloud, and Earth observation to accelerate progress
- Make the business case for sustained geospatial investment
Practical, strategic, and grounded in real government experience, Geospatial Nations is a guide for building the spatial foundation modern government now requires.
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- Publisher
- Esri Press
- Author
- Sohail Elabd
- Format
- Paperback
- Release date
- Feb 23, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9781589489301
- ISBN-10
- 1589489306
- Pages
- 400
- Carton quantity
- 20 copies
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| 1,000+ | $34.99 | 30% off list |
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