CISCO Summit Day 1 - Preston Jay Waite
December 09, 2007 by Chris | permalink
Preston Jay Waite, Deputy Director of the US Census Bureau. THE 21st CENTURY CENSUS.
he gave a great overview of the challenges that the Census faces. he brought wonderful mid-western humor to a very serious issue. how do you keep current? he is reengineering the 2010 Decennial Census Program. there is a misalignment between the GIS data and the street centre line data that the bureau uses. it costs about $10billion to make a census. his challenge it to get rid of paper. they are going to use hand-held devices to collect the data for the next one. the last one in 2000 used way too much paper and this will be a digital census.
a few really good lessons.....
2. DO NOT automate the questions, automate the data collection process.
3. DO NOT underestimate the End User
4. Automation cannot replace Interpersonal Communication
5. Training Presents New Challenges and Opportunities
count everybody once and only once and in the right place
http://www.census.gov/
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/bios/jay_waite_bio.html
