Initiatives to Foster the NSDI
September 2, 1998 In a major address at the Brookings Insitution in Washington , D.C., Vice President Gore called for stronger efforts nationwide to enhance the livability and economic competitiveness of American communities. The Vice President said the Administration will expand its support for the use of geographic information systems technologies and encourage increased public access and sharing of geographic data to put "more control, more information, more decision-making power into the hands of families, communities, and regions - to give them all the freedom and flexibility they need to reclaim their own unique place in the world, "